Before Quincy Jones began working with MJ, he was a young arranger for Frank Sinatra. “Fly Me to the Moon” began life as “In Other Words”, in waltz time.
Sinatra asked Quincy for a swing rearrangement - and here’s the iconic result (at a benefit in St Louis in ‘65) with Q conducting the Count Basie Orchestra.
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