The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and music producers -- provides the basis of this offbeat, free-form documentary tribute. With little regard for formal timelines and traditional documentary biography methods, the film is an amazing patchwork of personal insights featuring a constellation of music stars including his long-time friend Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Herbie Hancock, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie and rappers Big Daddy Kane and Flavor Flav, as well as politicians, filmmakers and other important people. Some of the most moving scenes involve Jones returning to his childhood home in Chicago and recounting honest and painful memories from his childhood. Jones does not shy from discussing everything -- from his mother's mental illness, to his marital problems, to his serious health conditions. He also looks frankly at his career.
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones has generally received positive reviews.
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Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones was released in 1990 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 1 reviews, giving Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 70%, Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1990, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1990 with similar scores include films like Pretty Woman, King of New York and Presumed Innocent.
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