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Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans over 70 years, with 28 Grammy Awards won out of 80 nominations, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992.. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores.
Apr 2, 2014 · Quincy Jones is best known as a composer and record producer for legendary musicians such as Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion and Aretha Franklin.
Quincy Jones. Producer: The Color Purple. Considered to be one of the greatest minds in music and television history, Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. was born on March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the son of Sarah Frances (Wells), a bank executive, and Quincy Delight Jones, Sr., a carpenter. Jones found his love for music while he was enrolled in grade school at Seattle's Garfield High ...
Jun 12, 2024 · Quincy Jones, American musical performer, producer, arranger, and composer whose work encompasses virtually all forms of popular music. He was perhaps best known for producing the all-time best-selling album, Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1982), and the television series The French Prince of Bel-Air (1990–96).
Sep 28, 2018 · Quincy Jones: Celebrating Seven Decades of Music. A yearlong celebration -- including a new Netflix documentary -- marks a career milestone for the composer, producer and entrepreneur.
Jun 20, 2022 · Ever since his earliest career moves as a teenage trumpet player working with a then-rising performer named Ray Charles, Quincy Jones has gone on to impact nearly every aspect of the music industry. In this episode of Black Sounds Beautiful, revisit the storied, seven-decade-long career of the Chicago native who rose to prominence as a musician, songwriter, arranger and producer of records ...
Jun 22, 2005 · Quincy Jones is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and film producer. His career spans over 60 years in the entertainment industry with a record 80 Grammy Award ...
Fortunate is the man who recognizes his calling when it first comes to him. Fortunate are we that that man is Quincy Jones. In his humble-roots-to-starry-heights memoir – he describes breaking into a military armory’s recreation center, outside of Seattle, in 1944, when he was 11.
Quincy Jones’s enormous success in the 1980s was the culmination of an extraordinary career. A classically trained musician who grew up in Seattle, Washington, he was a gospel singer at age 12, a jazz arranger in New York City in his early 20s, and musical director of Barclay Records in France soon
Feb 10, 2018 · In this Quincy Jones interview, GQ editor Dylan Jones meets the man who recorded the most successful album ever, and who laid down tracks with every key figure in modern music from Miles Davis to ...
