Quincy Jones Celebrates New Book

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Music mogul Quincy Jones celebrated the release of his autobiography with a party hosted by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.

Jones, who spent five years writing his life story, gave a short lecture about "retrograde inversion'' to the crowd gathered Wednesday. He says he learned the term while studying under Nadia Boulanger, and it means playing a melody upside down and backward - what Jones called the ideal way to live life.

Although writing the book was intense, Jones never stopped composing music. He says he does it in his head, whether or not an instrument is at hand.

"I write it on a napkin or a tablecloth,'' said Jones, who stayed at the home of actress Sharon Stone and her husband, newspaper editor Phil Bronstein, while in San Francisco. "That never stops.''