Beverly Hills, CA – Quincy Jones was a latest visitor The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in an effort to advertise his new Netflix documentary, Quincy.
In the course of the dialog, the music business legend revealed Ray Charles had him hooked on heroin for a five-month interval when he was simply 15 years previous.
“After we completed on the Washington Social Membership and a pair different ones, we’d all go all the way down to Jackson Avenue to the Elks Membership,” he defined. “That’s the place all of the bebop jam classes had been. No one received paid. We didn’t give a rattling.
“After they completed enjoying they’d go over within the nook they usually had it on their thumb. I simply snuck within the line and received me a bit hit.”
Jones, 85, confessed he would purchase the heroin from a Harlem vendor they referred to as Detroit Crimson — in any other case referred to as Malcolm X. He stated had he not fallen down a flight stairs and been placed on mattress relaxation, he by no means would’ve had an opportunity to return to grips with what the drug was doing to him.
“The errors are what make it easier to develop and study,” he stated. “That was a giant one. If I hadn’t fallen.] I’d have been in New York, the place I used to be hanging out with jazz musician] Charlie Parker. I’d have been a junkie eternally. Chook was at all times excessive. Thank god we did it and received it over with.”
Quincy was co-directed by one Jones’ seven kids, daughter Rashida Jones, and Australian jazz musician-turned-filmmaker Al Hicks.
Take heed to the complete episode the Awards Chatter podcast right here. The drug dialog begins across the 26-minute mark.