The Sunday Independent reports (reg. req.) on Gavin and Maurice’s collaboration with Quincy Jones: ‘Irish Renaissance man Gavin Friday and his musical partner Maurice Seezer, [who] have landed the prestigious contract to work with living legend Quincy Jones on the soundtrack for the new 50 Cent movie, Get Rich or Die Tryin”m (directed by Jim Sheridan). The pair will skip the country for LA to start work on the new project which will “be along the lines of Eminem’s huge smash-hit movie”, an insider tells me. The film, which goes on release in December, will also coincide with silver-tongued Gavin…

From Variety.com – Jones knows the score: “Quincy Jones has signed on to compose the original score for Paramount’s ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’,’ his first film score in the two decades since ‘The Color Purple.’ Jones, who has been nommed for seven Oscars, will be working with composers Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer, director Jim Sheridan and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who’s toplining and writing songs for the film. Story, penned by Terence Winter, centers on an orphaned street kid who makes his mark in the drug trade, then leaves the violence behind to pursue a career in rap.…