Live capture of the “Quincy Jones Presents” tribute concert held at the North Sea Jazz Festival, inside the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam, in 2014. A towering figure of twentieth-century jazz and music production, Quincy Jones anchors an evening built around the Metropole Orkest, the Dutch large ensemble conducted by Jules Buckley, revisiting the orchestral repertoire tied to the American producer and arranger. This filmed live concert documents one of the landmark editions of North Sea Jazz, a benchmark event for European jazz, and highlights the bridge between big band, soul and studio arrangement that defined Quincy Jones’s signature. The capture follows the stage flow, moving between orchestral pieces and spoken introductions, and preserves the energy of a genuine concert before a live audience. For lovers of orchestral jazz and the big-band tradition, this full concert is a valuable document: the Quincy Jones name, the 2014 North Sea Jazz setting and the Metropole Orkest make it a prime entry point into large-scale live jazz filmed in its most ambitious form.
Personnel & credits
- Quincy Jones — direction artistique, présentation
- Metropole Orkest — grand orchestre
- Jules Buckley — direction
