When Jasper Leak was hired as music supervisor on the Netflix documentary “Quincy,” his mission was “to help paint a full picture of who Quincy Jones is to an audience.” In order to achieve that, he created a score “using only Quincy’s music.” He has been rewarded for his efforts with a career-first Emmy nomination for Best Music Supervision, no small feat considering he had never done the job before. Watch our exclusive video interview with Leak above.
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Prior to “Quincy,” the Australia native had worked as a musician and composer. He was brought onto this project by his longtime friend Alan Hicks, the documentarian who co-directed the film with Jones’s daughter, Rashida Jones. “I had to get incredibly comfortable with spreadsheets and cataloguing,” Leak admits.
“There were certain aspects of the job that were uncharted territory,...
See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in August 2019
Prior to “Quincy,” the Australia native had worked as a musician and composer. He was brought onto this project by his longtime friend Alan Hicks, the documentarian who co-directed the film with Jones’s daughter, Rashida Jones. “I had to get incredibly comfortable with spreadsheets and cataloguing,” Leak admits.
“There were certain aspects of the job that were uncharted territory,...
- 8/9/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
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