Quincy Jones
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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.[1] His career spans over 70 years, with 28 Grammy Awards won out of 80 nominations,[2] 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. He moved easily between genres, producing pop hit records for
In 1971, Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the academy's
Early life
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was born in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois on March 14, 1933, the elder of two sons to Sarah Frances (née Wells; died 1999), a bank officer and apartment complex manager,[5] and Quincy Delight Jones, a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky. Jones's paternal grandmother was an ex-slave from Louisville,[5] and Jones later discovered that his paternal grandfather was Welsh.[6][7] With the help of the author Alex Haley in 1972 and Latter-day Saint researchers in Salt Lake City, Jones discovered that one of his mother's ancestors was James Lanier, a relative of poet Sidney Lanier. Jones said, "He had a baby with my great-grandmother [a slave], and my grandmother was born there [on a plantation in Kentucky]. We traced this all the way back to the Laniers, the same family as Tennessee Williams."[5] Learning that the Lanier immigrant ancestors were French Huguenots who had court musicians among their ancestors, Jones attributed some of his musicianship to them.[5]
For the 2006
Jones's family moved to Chicago during the Great Migration. Jones had a younger brother, Lloyd, who was an engineer for the Seattle television station KOMO-TV until his death in 1998. Jones was introduced to music by his mother, who always sang religious songs, and next-door neighbor Lucy Jackson. When Jones was five or six, Jackson played stride piano next door, and he would listen through the walls. Jackson recalled that after he heard her one-day, she could not get him off her piano.[10]
When Jones was young, his mother had a
At age 14, Jones introduced himself to 16-year-old Ray Charles after watching him play at the Black Elks Club. Jones cites Charles as an early inspiration for his own music career, noting that Charles overcame his blindness to achieve his musical goals. He credited his father's sturdy work ethic with giving him the means to proceed and his loving strength with holding the family together. Jones said his father had a rhyming motto: "Once a task is just begun, never leave until it's done. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all."[11]
In 1951, Jones earned a scholarship to Seattle University. After one semester, he transferred to what is now the Berklee College of Music in Boston on another scholarship.[13] There, he played at Izzy Ort's Bar & Grille with Bunny Campbell and Preston Sandiford, whom he cited as important influences.[14] He left his studies after receiving an offer to tour as a trumpeter, arranger, and pianist with bandleader Lionel Hampton and embarked on his professional career. On the road with Hampton, he displayed a gift for arranging songs. He moved to New York City, where he received freelance commissions writing arrangements for Charles, who was by then a close friend, and for Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Gene Krupa.[citation needed]
Music career
In 1953, aged 20, Jones traveled with jazz bandleader Lionel Hampton for a European tour of the Hampton orchestra. He said the tour changed his view of racism in the United States:
It gave you some sense of perspective on past, present, and future. It took the myopic conflict between just black and white in the United States and put it on another level because you saw the turmoil between the Armenians and the Turks, and the Cypriots and the Greeks, and the Swedes and the Danes, and the Koreans and the Japanese. Everybody had these hassles, and you saw it was a basic part of human nature, these conflicts. It opened my soul; it opened my mind.[5]
In early 1956, Jones accepted a temporary job at CBS'
During the 1950s, Jones toured Europe with several jazz orchestras. As musical director of Harold Arlen's jazz musical Free and Easy, he took to the road again. A European tour closed in Paris in February 1960. With musicians from the Arlen show, he formed his big band the Jones Boys with eighteen musicians. The band included double bass player Eddie Jones and trumpeter Reunald Jones (none of the three were related). The band toured North America and Europe, and the concerts met enthusiastic audiences and sparkling reviews, but the earnings failed to support a band of this size. Poor budget planning resulted in an economic disaster; the band dissolved, leaving Jones in a financial crisis.
"We had the best jazz band on the planet, and yet we were literally starving. That's when I discovered that there was music, and there was the music business. If I were to survive, I would have to learn the difference between the two."[15]
Breakthrough and rise
In 1961, Jones was promoted as the vice-president of Mercury, becoming the first African American to hold the position. During the same year, at the invitation of director
In the 1960s, Jones worked as an arranger for Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Peggy Lee, Nana Mouskouri, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, and Dinah Washington. His solo recordings included Walking in Space, Gula Matari, Smackwater Jack, You've Got It Bad Girl, Body Heat, Mellow Madness, and I Heard That!!
Jones's 1962 tune "Soul Bossa Nova", which originated on the Big Band Bossa Nova album, was used as the theme for the 1997 spy comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.[17]
Jones produced all four million-selling singles for
In 1975, Jones founded Qwest Productions, for which he arranged and produced successful albums by Frank Sinatra and others. In 1978, he produced the
His 1981 album The Dude yielded the hits "Ai No Corrida" (a remake of a song by Chaz Jankel), "Just Once", and "One Hundred Ways", both sung by James Ingram.
Marking Jones's debut as a film producer, 1985's The Color Purple received 11 Oscar nominations that year, including one for Jones's score. Jones, Thomas Newman, and Alan Silvestri are the only composers besides John Williams to have written scores for a Steven Spielberg-directed theatrical feature film.[19][20] Additionally, through this picture, Jones is credited with introducing Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to film audiences around the world.[21]
After the 1985 American Music Awards ceremony, Jones used his influence to draw most of the major American recording artists of the day into a studio to record the song "We Are the World" to raise money for the victims of famine in Ethiopia. When people marveled at his ability to make the collaboration work, Jones explained that he had taped a sign on the entrance reading "Check Your Ego at the Door". He was also quoted as saying, "We don't want to make a hunger record in tuxedos",[22] requiring all participants to wear casual clothing in the studio. In 1986, he started off Qwest Entertainment to produce theatrical feature films, through Qwest Film and Television, and launched a home video label, Qwest Home Video, in order to manage the home video titles made by the studio, and Qwest Entertainment would continue to operate their pre-existing subsidiaries like Qwest Records, Quincy Jones Productions and Qwest Music Publishing.[23]
In 1990, Quincy Jones Productions joined with Time Warner to create Quincy Jones Entertainment (QJE).
Beginning in the late 1970s, Jones tried to convince Miles Davis to revive the music he recorded on several classic albums of the 1950s, which was arranged by Gil Evans. Davis always refused, citing a desire to avoid revisiting the past. But in 1991, Davis relented. Despite having pneumonia, he agreed to perform the music at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The recording, Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux, was his last album; he died several months afterward.[26]
In 1993, Jones collaborated with David Salzman to produce the concert An American Reunion, a celebration of Bill Clinton's inauguration as President of the United States. During the same year, he and Salzman renamed his company to Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment.
In 2001, Jones published his autobiography Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones. On July 31, 2007, he partnered with
Jones helped produce Anita Hall's 2009 album Send Love. In 2013, he produced
.In 2017, Jones and French producer Reza Ackbaraly started Qwest TV, the world's first subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service for jazz and eclectic music from around the world. The platform features a handpicked selection of ad-free concerts, interviews, documentaries, and exclusive, original content, all in HD or 4K.
In 2010, Jones, along with brand strategist Chris Vance, co-founded Playground Sessions, a NY City-based developer of subscription software that teaches people to play the piano using interactive videos.[28] Pianists Harry Connick Jr. and David Sides are among the company's video instructors. Jones worked with Vance and Sides to develop the video lessons and incorporate techniques to modernize the instruction format.[29]
Work with Frank Sinatra
Quincy Jones first worked with Frank Sinatra in 1958 when invited by Princess Grace to arrange a benefit concert at the Monaco Sporting Club.[30] Six years later, Sinatra hired him to arrange and conduct Sinatra's second album with Count Basie, It Might as Well Be Swing (1964). Jones conducted and arranged Sinatra's live album with the Basie Band, Sinatra at the Sands (1966).[31] Jones was also the arranger/conductor when Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, and Johnny Carson performed with the Basie orchestra in June 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri, in a benefit for Dismas House. The fund-raiser was broadcast to movie theaters around the country and eventually released on VHS.[32] Later that year, Jones was the arranger/conductor when Sinatra and Basie appeared on The Hollywood Palace TV show on October 16, 1965.[33] Nineteen years later, Sinatra and Jones teamed up for 1984's L.A. Is My Lady.[34] Jones said,
Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.[35]
Work with Michael Jackson
While working on the film , which sold 45 million copies, and was the last time they worked with each other. Audio interviews with Jones are included in the 2001 special editions of Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad.
In a 2002 interview, when asked if he would work with Jones again, Jackson suggested he might. But in 2007, when Jones was asked by NME, he said, "Man, please! We already did that. I have talked to him about working with him again but I've got too much to do. I've got 900 products, I'm 74 years old."[37]
Following Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, Jones said:
I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news. For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words. Divinity brought our souls together on The Wiz and allowed us to do what we were able to throughout the '80s. To this day, the music we created together on Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad is played in every corner of the world, and the reason for that is because he had it all ... talent, grace, professionalism, and dedication. He was the consummate entertainer, and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I've lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him.[38]
In October 2013, the BBC and The Hollywood Reporter said Jones planned to sue Michael Jackson's estate for $10 million. Jones said that MJJ Productions, a song company managed by Jackson's estate and Sony Music Entertainment, improperly re-edited songs to deprive him of royalties and production fees and breached an agreement giving him the right to remix master recordings for albums released after Jackson's death.[39] The songs Jones produced for Jackson were used in the film This Is It. Jones was reported to be filing the suits against the Michael Jackson Cirque du Soleil shows and the 25th-anniversary edition of the Bad album.[40] He believed he should have received a producer credit in the film.[39][41][42]
Brazilian culture
The Brazilian singer Simone, whom Jones cites as "one of the world's greatest singers";[43] Brazilian musicians Ivan Lins[44] and Milton Nascimento; and percussionist Paulinho da Costa, who Jones called "one of the best in the business",[45] have become close friends and partners in his recent works.
Media appearances
Jones had a brief appearance in the 1990 video for
Jones appeared in the 1999
In February 2014, Jones appeared in Keep on Keepin' On, a documentary about his friend, jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
On March 20, 2020, Jones guest starred on a music video by Travis Scott and Young Thug for the song "Out West".[52][53] Jones makes and consumes a sandwich during the course of the video.
In January 2022, Jones appeared on the album Dawn FM by Canadian singer the Weeknd, performing a monologue in the sixth track, "A Tale by Quincy".
Activism
Jones's social activism began in the 1960s with his support of Martin Luther King Jr. Jones is one of the founders of the Institute for Black American Music (IBAM), whose events aim to raise enough funds for the creation of a national library of African-American art and music. Jones is also one of the founders of the Black Arts Festival in his hometown of Chicago. In the 1970s, Jones formed the Quincy Jones Workshops. Meeting at the Los Angeles Landmark Variety Arts Center, the workshops educated and honed the skills of inner-city youth in musicianship, acting, and songwriting. Among its alumni were Alton McClain, who had a hit song with Alton McClain and Destiny, and Mark Wilkins, who co-wrote the hit song "Havin' a Love Attack" with Mandrill and became National Promotion Director for Mystic Records.[54]
For many years, Jones has worked closely with Bono of U2 on a number of philanthropic causes. He is the founder of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation,[3] a nonprofit organization that built more than 100 homes in South Africa and which aims to connect youths with technology, education, culture, and music.[55] One of the organization's programs is an intercultural exchange between underprivileged youths from Los Angeles and South Africa. In 2004, Jones helped launch the We Are the Future (WAF) project, which gives children in poor and conflict-ridden areas a chance to live their childhoods and develop a sense of hope. The program is the result of a strategic partnership between the Global Forum, the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, and Hani Masri, with the support of the World Bank, UN agencies, and major companies. The project was launched with a concert in Rome, Italy, in front of an audience of half a million people.[56]
Jones supports a number of other charities, including the NAACP, GLAAD, Peace Games, AmfAR, and the Maybach Foundation.[57] He serves on the advisory board of HealthCorps. On July 26, 2007, he announced his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. But with the election of Barack Obama, Jones said that his next conversation "with President Obama [will be] to beg for a secretary of arts."[58] This prompted the circulation of a petition on the internet asking Obama to create such a Cabinet-level position in his administration.[59][60] In 2001, Jones became an honorary member of the board of directors of the Jazz Foundation of America. He worked with the foundation to save the homes and lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, including those who survived Hurricane Katrina.[61] Jones is a spokesperson for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation,[62] co-founded by his friend John Sie,[63] which annually awards the Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Award.[64] He is also involved in the Linda Crnic Institute, improving the lives of people with down syndrome through advanced biomedical research.[65]
Personal life
Jones never learned to drive, citing his involvement in a car crash at age 14 as the reason.[66]
Jones revealed that
In 1974, Jones developed a life-threatening brain aneurysm, leading to a decision to reduce his workload to spend time with his friends and family.[70] Since his family and friends believed Jones's life was coming to an end, they started to plan a memorial service for him. He attended his own service with his neurologist by his side, in case the excitement overwhelmed him. Some of the entertainers at his service were Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughan, and Sidney Poitier.[71] He had 2 brain surgeries, and after the second was warned to never play the trumpet again, because "if he blew a trumpet in the ways that a trumpet player must, the clip would come free and he would die." He ignored that advice, went on tour in Japan, and one night after playing trumping had a pain in his head. Doctors said the clip in his brain had nearly come loose, as they'd warned and Jones never played trumpet again.[72]
Romantic relationships and children
Jones has been married three times and has seven children with five different women.
In 1994, rapper Tupac Shakur criticized Jones for having relationships with white women, prompting Jones's daughter Rashida to pen a scathing open letter in response, which was published in The Source.[76] Jones's daughter Kidada developed a romantic relationship with Shakur and had been living with him for four months at the time of his death.[76]
Awards and honors
- Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music (1983)[77]
- Golden Plate Award of the
- Grammy Legend Award in 1992 (one of only 15 people ever to receive it).[80]
- Third in the list of all-time Grammy award wins.
- Garfield High School in Seattle named a performing arts center after him.[5]
- Quincy Jones Elementary School, located in South Central Los Angeles, is named after him.
- Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards in 2008.
- John F. Kennedy Center Honors in 2001.
- National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama on March 2, 2011.[81]
- Los Angeles Press Club Visionary Award in 2014.[82]
- Honorary doctorate from the Royal Academy of Music, London, in 2015.[83]
- Ahmet Ertegun Award into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
- In 2021, Jones was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame as a "foundational inductee".[84]
Discography
Film scores and soundtracks
- The Pawnbroker (Mercury, 1965)
- Mirage (Mercury, 1965)
- The Slender Thread (Mercury, 1965)
- Walk, Don't Run (Mainstream, 1966)
- "Hey Landlord TV series[85]
- The Deadly Affair (Verve, 1967)
- Enter Laughing (Liberty, 1967)
- Banning (1967)
- In the Heat of the Night (United Artists, 1967)
- In Cold Blood (Colgems, 1967)
- A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
- The Counterfeit Killer (1968)
- Jigsaw (1968)
- For Love of Ivy (ABC, 1968)
- The Hell with Heroes (1968)
- The Split (1968)
- Mackenna's Gold (RCA Victor, 1969)
- The Italian Job (Paramount, 1969)
- The Lost Man (Uni, 1969)
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Bell, 1969)
- John and Mary (A&M, 1969)
- Original Sound Track: Cactus Flower (Bell, 1969) from Cactus Flower (1969)
- Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
- The Out-of-Towners (1970)
- Original Motion Picture Score: They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (United Artists, 1970) from They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
- Brother John (1971)
- The Anderson Tapes (1971)
- Honky (1971)
- "Sanford and Son Theme" in Sanford and Son
– included in You've Got It Bad Girl (A&M, 1973) - Dollars (Reprise, 1972) from Dollars (1971)
- The Hot Rock (Prophesy, 1972)
- The New Centurions (1972)
- "Love Theme From The Getaway" (A&M, 1973) in The Getaway (1972)
– included in You've Got It Bad Girl (A&M, 1973) - Roots: The Saga of an American Family (A&M, 1977) from Roots (1977)
- The Wiz original soundtrack (MCA, 1978) from The Wiz (1978)
- The Color Purple: Music From the Motion Picture (Quest, 1986) from The Color Purple (1985)
- Lola (2024)
Filmography
- Fantasia 2000 (1999) – Himself (segment "Rhapsody in Blue")
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) – Himself
- Sandy Wexler (2017) – Himself
- Quincy (2018) – Himself
- The Black Godfather (2019) – Himself
- Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth (2020) – Himself
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Further reading
- "Quincy Jones". Archive of American Television. October 22, 2017. Video interview.
- "Quincy Jones". Mix Magazine. Archived from the original on May 2, 2009.
- "Quincy Jones: The Story of an American Musician". American Masters. PBS. Archived from the original on April 23, 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
- "Quincy Jones Speech at Beijing University" (PDF). USC Public Diplomacy. Beijing, China. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2009.
- Jones, Quincy (November 5, 2001). "Quincy Jones: The Man Behind the Music". Fresh Air (Interview). Terry Gross. NPR. (26 mins, airdate May 25, 2013)
External links
- Quincy Jones at IMDb
- "Quincy Jones". The MusiCodex. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014.
- "Quincy Jones". NAMM Oral History Library. 2014.
- "Quincy Jones: National Visionary (Excerpts)". The National Visionary Leadership Project.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Former official website (via archive.org, 2019)