Quincy Jones & Universes in THE MATRIX

You are in a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes inside it — mirroring human society & the 6 degrees phenomenon — tend to within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable-degrees away from everybody else in the arts world (and so the whole world), and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:

This Quincy Jones matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Quincy Jones.
THESE ARTIST NODES are routed to from this Quincy Jones node.

Are these Quincy Jones's personal recommendations?

CURATION STATUS

Worldline Generation: Routes by The Matrix via ↴

Who & Where

Name: Quincy Jones
City/Place: Los Angeles
Country: United States

Life & Work

Bio: "Maybe I can hitchhike a ride into the future with these kids, they are the most talented young people on the planet."

Quincy Jones, trumpeter, composer, arranger, producer, bandleader...studied with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen, and has worked with artists ranging from Harold Arlen to Ray Charles to Lionel Hampton to Dizzy Gillespie to Count Basie to Duke Ellington to Sarah Vaughan to Dinah Washington to Gene Krupa to Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson.

He hardly needs an introduction to anybody who has listened to music over the past fifty years, his appellation "Q" having become musical coin of the realm.

And now he has embarked on a new voyage, carrying a prodigiously talented group of young musicians into the public light, that the rest of the world may benefit by the gifts these musicians have been given and by the hard work they've put into developing those gifts.

These artist nodes route to this Quincy Jones node:

THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" is different though...it doesn't hum...it sings!

Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"

w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio

Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.

MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):