Quincy Jones to give the world the pandemic musical collaboration you didn’t know you needed, but just might deserve!

Andrew Scott (IG: andrewjacobscott1)
The Haven
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2 min readFeb 9, 2022

Multiple Grammy-award-winning producer Quincy Jones picks up where he left off from “We are the World,” with the COVID-19 musical collaboration the world has been waiting for.

Bringing together the cacophonous sounds of neighborhood stay-at-home moms banging on pots and pans in support of front line workers, with the incessant honking of car horns by obnoxious truckers decamped in Ottawa as part of Canada’s so-called “Freedom Convoy,” Jones’s latest musical effort strives to capture the musical zeitgeist of the pandemic in full stridency!

For Gwen McPherson, who describes herself as being, “at wit’s end” since April 2020, when the enthusiastic banging of metal kitchen ware with wooden spatulas greeted her daily arrival home following grueling 12-hour shifts as a registered nurse, things have only gotten worse with the blaring car horns and maximum volume broadcasting of Jordan Peterson speeches from speakers affixed atop trucks currently blocking her Rideau Centre apartment.

“That said,” states McPherson, her eyes glazed over from the effects of sudden SSRI titration, “I’ve always been a fan of Quincy’s work with James Ingram,” demonstrating how she danced to Ingram’s “100 Ways” with her now ex-husband, Steve, prior to their COVID divorce. “I can’t wait to hear what ‘Q’ does with this latest collab!”

For their part, the principals of this as-of-yet unnamed musical project have failed to come to an agreement on the importance of vaccinations, the existence of COVID, whether the last chorus of their song should modulate one half-step, or whether to put up, or take down, their not yet released music on Spotify in an attempt to either show allegiance to, or disagreement with, Joe Rogan.

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Andrew Scott (IG: andrewjacobscott1)
The Haven

Andrew Scott is a musician and writer who lives in Toronto in a house amongst children, antiquated technology of yesteryear and many, many instruments.