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Fantasia/2000 1999 3 stars

    G, 75 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Musical
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Steve Martin, Bette Midler, James Levine, Itzhak Perlman, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Quincy Jones, Penn Jillette, Teller, Russi Taylor, Leopold Stokowski, Ralph Grierson, Kathleen Battle

  This IMAX-formatted musical adventure updates the original 1940 version in its use of 21st-century technology. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is still there, but many new sequences have replaced the old in this ambitious Disney Studios undertaking.

A Great Day in Harlem 1994 3 stars

    N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jean Bach
Cast: Quincy Jones, Art Kane, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk

  Based on a 1958 Esquire magazine picture, this documentary provides interviews and film clips of the 60 jazz musicians who provided the subject for the prized photograph.

Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones 1990 2 and a half stars

    PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Ellen Weissbrod
Cast: Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Herbie Hancock

  This documentary includes great footage of Jones on stage as well as interviews with Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Jesse Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, and Oprah Winfrey.

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