Quincy Jones
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Born | Quincy Delight Jones Jr. March 14, 1933 Chicago, Illinois, US |
Died | November 3, 2024 Los Angeles, California, US | (aged 91)
Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1951–2024 |
Spouses | Jeri Caldwell
(m. 1957; div. 1966)Ulla Andersson (m. 1967; div. 1974) |
Partner | Interscope |
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, and bandleader. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received
Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before producing pop hit records for
Jones composed numerous
Throughout his career he was the recipient of numerous honorary awards including the
Early life
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was born in the
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
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 schizophrenic breakdown and was sent to a mental institution.[5][11] His father divorced her and married Elvera Jones, who already had three children: Waymond, Theresa, and Katherine.[11] Elvera and Quincy Sr. had three more children together: Jeanette, Margie, and Richard.[11][12] The family moved to Sinclair Park, a segregated community in Bremerton, Washington, in 1943. Jones's father took a wartime job at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.[11][13]
After the war, the family moved to
Jones cited Ray Charles as an early inspiration for his own music career, noting that Charles overcame his blindness to achieve his musical goals. Jones credited his father's sturdy work ethic with giving him the means to proceed, and his loving nature with holding the family together. Jones cited his father's 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]
Jones earned a scholarship to Seattle University in 1951. After one semester, he transferred to what is now the Berklee College of Music in Boston on another scholarship,[14] where he played at Izzy Ort's Bar & Grille with Bunny Campbell and Preston Sandiford, whom he cited as important influences.[15]
Career
1953–1959: Career beginnings with jazz music

In 1953, at age 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]
After leaving the Hampton band in 1954, Jones settled in New York, and started writing "for anyone who would pay".
In the 1950s, Jones toured Europe with several jazz orchestras. As musical director of
Jones first worked with
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.[29]
1961–1977: Breakthrough and acclaim

In 1961, Jones was promoted and became the vice-president of Mercury, the first African American to hold the position. In the same year, at the invitation of director Sidney Lumet, he composed music for The Pawnbroker (1964). It was the first of his nearly 40 major motion picture scores. Following the success of The Pawnbroker, Jones left Mercury and moved to Los Angeles. After composing film scores for Mirage and The Slender Thread in 1965, he was in constant demand as a composer.[citation needed]
His film credits over the next seven years came to include
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!![citation needed]
Jones's 1962 tune "Soul Bossa Nova", which originated on the Big Band Bossa Nova album, was later used as the theme for the 1997 spy comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.[30]
Jones produced all four million-selling singles for Lesley Gore during the early and mid-1960s, including "It's My Party" (UK No. 8; US No. 1), its sequel "Judy's Turn to Cry" (US No. 5), "She's a Fool" (also a US No. 5) in 1963, and "You Don't Own Me" (US No. 2 for four weeks in 1964). He continued to produce for Gore until 1966, including notable hits like "That's the Way Boys Are" (US No. 12 in 1964), the Greenwich/Barry hits "Look of Love" (US No. 27 in 1965) and "Maybe I Know" (UK No. 20; US No. 14 in 1964), "Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows" (No. 13 in 1965), and "My Town, My Guy And Me" (No. 32 in 1965). [citation needed] In 1975, Jones founded Qwest Productions, for which he arranged and produced successful albums by Frank Sinatra and others. He also reunited with Lesley Gore that year, producing her critically acclaimed album Love Me By Name, released on A&M Records.[citation needed]
1978–1989: Exploration into pop music
In 1978, he produced the soundtrack for The Wiz, the musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, which starred Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. While working on The Wiz, Jackson asked Jones to recommend some producers for his upcoming solo album. Jones offered some names but eventually offered to produce the record himself. Jackson accepted and the resulting record, Off the Wall, sold about 20 million copies. This made Jones the most powerful record producer in the industry at that time. Jones and Jackson's next collaboration, Thriller, sold 65 million copies and became the highest-selling album of all time.[31][32] The rise of MTV and the advent of music videos as promotional tools also contributed to Thriller's sales. Jones worked on Jackson's album Bad, 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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed] 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.[33][34] Additionally, through this picture, Jones is credited with introducing Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to film audiences around the world.[35]

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",[36] requiring all participants to wear casual clothing in the studio. In 1986, Jones started off Qwest Entertainment to produce theatrical feature films, through Qwest Film and Television. He launched a home video label, Qwest Home Video, in order to manage the home video titles made by the studio. Qwest Entertainment continued to operate their pre-existing subsidiaries like Qwest Records, Quincy Jones Productions and Qwest Music Publishing.[37]
1990–2024: Established career
In 1990, Quincy Jones Productions joined with Time Warner to create Quincy Jones Entertainment (QJE).
Beginning in the late 1970s, Jones had tried to convince
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.[43]
In 2001, Jones published his autobiography Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones. In a 2002 interview, when asked if he would work with Jones again, Michael 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."[44] 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."[45]
Jones appeared in the 1999 Walt Disney Pictures animated film Fantasia 2000, introducing the set piece of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. In 2002, he made a cameo appearance as himself in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember. On February 10, 2008, Jones joined Usher in presenting the Grammy Award for Album of the Year to Herbie Hancock.[46]
On January 6, 2009, Jones appeared on NBC's

In July 2007, Jones partnered with
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.[52] 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.[53]
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 appeared in a music video by Travis Scott and Young Thug for the song "Out West".[57][58] In January 2022, Jones appeared on the album Dawn FM by Canadian singer the Weeknd, performing a monolog in the sixth track, "A Tale by Quincy".[59]
Activism

Jones's social activism began in the 1960s with his support of Martin Luther King Jr. Jones was one of the founders of the Institute for Black American Music (IBAM), whose events aimed to raise funds for the creation of a national library of African-American art and music. Jones was 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.[60]
For many years, Jones worked closely with Bono of U2 on a number of philanthropic causes. He was the founder of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, a nonprofit organization that built more than 100 homes in South Africa and which aimed to connect youths with technology, education, culture, and music.[32] One of the organization's programs was an intercultural exchange between underprivileged youths from Los Angeles and South Africa.[32]
In 2004, Jones helped to launch the We Are the Future (WAF) project, which gave children in poor and conflict-ridden areas a chance to live their childhoods and develop a sense of hope. The program was 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.[61]
Jones supported a number of other charities, including the NAACP, GLAAD, Peace Games, AmfAR, and the Maybach Foundation.[62] He served on the advisory board of HealthCorps. In July 2007, he announced his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. With the election of Barack Obama, Jones said that his next conversation "with President Obama [will be] to beg for a secretary of arts".[63] This prompted the circulation of an internet petition, asking Obama to create such a Cabinet-level position in his administration.[64][65]
In 2001, Jones became an honorary member of the board of directors of the
Personal life
Marriages and family
Jones was married three times and had seven children with five women.
The day after his divorce from Andersson, Jones married American actress
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, became engaged to him, and had been living with him for four months at the time of his death.[76]
Interests and beliefs

Jones never learned to drive, citing his involvement in a car crash at age 14 as the reason. During this time, he and a group of friends were heading to a rodeo in Yakima when a bus hit them. He said everybody in the car died except him—the scene was gruesome and left him traumatized. He attempted to take driving lessons a few years later but he "just couldn't do it" and never drove again.[77][78]
Jones revealed that
Legal issues
In October 2013, the
Health issues and death
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.[85] Since his family and friends believed that 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.[86]
Jones had two 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 [a metal plate in his head that was implanted after his brain aneurysm] would come free and he would die". He ignored that advice, went on tour in Japan, and one night after playing trumpet had a pain in his head. Doctors said the plate in his brain had nearly come loose, as they had warned, and Jones never played the trumpet again.[87]
On November 3, 2024, Jones died at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles at the age of 91.[88][89][90] His publicist confirmed his death. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed,[91] but was later revealed to be pancreatic cancer.[92] He was buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.[93]
Artistry, legacy and tributes

President Joe Biden issued a statement praising Jones as "a great unifier, who believed deeply in the healing power of music to restore hope and uplift those suffering from hunger, poverty, and violence, in America and the continent of Africa".[94] Former President Barack Obama praised Jones for "building a career that took him from the streets of Chicago to the heights of Hollywood ... paving the way for generations of Black executives to leave their mark on the entertainment business".[95] Former President Bill Clinton stated, "He changed the face of the music industry forever".[96] Vice President Kamala Harris called him a "trailblazer" and remembered him for his "championing of civil and human rights".[97]
Numerous celebrities and public figures paid their tributes such as Steven Spielberg, Michael Caine, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, Colman Domingo, Will Smith, Clive Davis and Berry Gordy.[98][99] Several musicians that have paid tribute include Paul McCartney, BP Fallon, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, John Legend, Lenny Kravitz, Darius Rucker, Nile Rodgers, David Guetta, Kelly Rowland, Victoria Monét, Gladys Knight, Ice-T, The Weeknd, Pharrell Williams, and Russ.[citation needed]
Brazilian musicians Simone,[100] Ivan Lins,[101] Milton Nascimento and percussionist Paulinho da Costa[102] were close friends and partners in Jones's most recent works. Japanese film composer Joe Hisaishi, came up with his alias (久石 譲, Hisaishi Jō) as a play on Jones's name.[103][104]
Awards and honors


In 1968, Jones became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Eyes of Love" from the film Banning (1967). Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 1967 film In Cold Blood, making him the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year.[citation needed] In 1971, Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards. He became, in 1995, the first African American to receive the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the second most Oscar-nominated African American, with seven nominations each.[citation needed]
Organizations | Year | Notes | Result | Ref. |
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Berklee College of Music | 1983 | Honorary Doctorate of Music | Honored | [105] |
American Academy of Achievement
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1984 | Golden Plate Award presented by Ray Charles | Honored | [106][107] |
Grammy Legend Award | 1992 | Honorary award (one of only 15 people ever to receive it) | Honored | [108] |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | 1995 | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Honored | [109] |
Government of France | 2001 | Commander of the Legion of Honour | Honored | [110] |
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | Kennedy Center Honors | Honored | [111] | |
Garfield High School | 2008 | Performing arts center is named after him | Honored | [112][113] |
BET Awards | Humanitarian Award | Honored | [114] | |
Quincy Jones Elementary School | 2010 | South Central Los Angeles school is named after him | Honored | [115][116] |
National Medal of Arts | 2011 | Medal bestowed on him by President Barack Obama | Honored | [117] |
Time | 2013 | Named as one of "The 10 Most Influential 80-Year-Olds" | Honored | [118] |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Ahmet Ertegun Award | Honored | [119][120] | |
Los Angeles Press Club | 2014 | Visionary Award | Honored | [121] |
Government of France | Grand Commandeur de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres | Honored | [110] | |
Royal Academy of Music, London | 2015 | Honorary doctorate | Honored | [122] |
Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame | 2021 | "Foundational inductee" | Honored | [123] |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | 2024 | Academy Honorary Award | Honored | [124] |
Filmography
This section needs additional citations for verification. (November 2024) |
Film
Television
Year | Project | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1966–1967 | Hey Landlord |
Composer | " Hey Landlord Theme "; 7 episodes |
[125] |
1967–1968 | Ironside |
12 episodes | ||
1969–1971 | The Bill Cosby Show | 52 episodes | ||
1971 | The Bill Cosby Special | Comedy special | ||
43rd Academy Awards | Musical Director | Television Special | ||
1972 | The New Bill Cosby Show | 2 episodes | ||
1973 | Sanford and Son | Composer | " Sanford and Son Theme "; 135 episodes
|
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1977 | Roots | Miniseries | ||
1990–1996 | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Executive Producer | 148 episodes | |
1991 | The Jesse Jackson Show | Episode: "The Homefront" | ||
1995–1999 | In the House | 76 episodes | ||
1996 | 68th Academy Awards | Television special | ||
1997 | Lost on Earth | 6 episodes | ||
1997–1998 | Vibe | 28 episodes | ||
1997–2009 | Mad TV | 215 episodes | ||
2001 | Say it Loud: A Celebration of Black America | 5 episodes | ||
2022 | Bel-Air | 6 episodes |
Music videos
Year | Artist | Song | Notes | Ref. |
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1979 | Michael Jackson | "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" | Producer | |
"Rock with You" | ||||
1982 | Donna Summer | "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" | Composer | |
1983 | Michael Jackson | "Beat It" | Producer | |
1985 | USA for Africa | "We Are the World" | Conductor Producer |
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1987 | Michael Jackson | "Bad" | Music supervisor | |
1988 | "Man in the Mirror" | |||
1988 | Barbra Streisand & Don Johnson | "Till I Loved You" | Producer | |
1990 | Quincy Jones | "Back on the Block" | Composer Producer |
|
"The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)" | ||||
1996 | 2Pac feat. K-Ci & JoJo |
"How Do U Want It" | Composer | |
2001 | Sheena Easton | "Love Is in Control" | ||
2005 | Ludacris | "Number One Spot" | ||
2007 | Kanye West feat. T-Pain | "Good Life" |
Acting credits
Year | Film | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1967 | Ironside |
Les Appleton | Episode: "Eat, Drink and Be Buried" | |
1978 | The Wiz | Emerald City Pianist | Uncredited | |
1990 | Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones | Himself | Documentary | [126] |
1990–1993 | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 2 episodes | ||
1992 | The Whoopi Goldberg Show | |||
1999 | Fantasia 2000 | Segment: "Rhapsody in Blue" | ||
2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | Cameo role | ||
2017 | Sandy Wexler | |||
2018 | Quincy | Documentary | ||
2019 | The Black Godfather | |||
2020 | Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth |
Theatre
Year | Project | Role | Venue | Ref. |
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2005 | The Color Purple | Producer | Broadway Theater , Broadway debut |
[127] |
2015 | Bernard B. Jacobs Theater , Broadway revival |
[128] |
Discography
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Further reading
- Cardew, Ben, "Quincy Jones: a Masterclass interview in ten points". Line Noise, December 22, 2023.
- "Quincy Jones". Archive of American Television. October 22, 2017. Video interview.
- "Quincy Jones: The Man Behind the Music". Fresh Air (Interview). Interviewed by Terry Gross. NPR. November 5, 2001. (26 mins, airdate May 25, 2013)
- Quincy Jones at Soulwalking.
- Jackson, Blair (October 1, 2007). "Mix Interview: Quincy Jones". Mix Magazine. Archived from the original on May 2, 2009.
- Early, Gerald. "Quincy Jones: The Story of an American Musician". American Masters. PBS. Archived from the original on April 23, 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
- Cardew, Ben, "A Quincy Jones interview from 2010". Musicismthought. October 19, 2013.
- "Quincy Jones Speech at Beijing University" (PDF). USC Public Diplomacy. Beijing, China. May 26, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2009.
External links
- Official website (archived)
- Quincy Jones on Twitter
- Quincy Jones's channel on YouTube
- Quincy Jones on Facebook
- Quincy Jones on Instagram
- Quincy Jones at IMDb
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Quincy Jones at AllMusic
- Quincy Jones discography at Discogs
- Quincy Jones at NAMM Oral History Program
- 2010 interview and bio at the National Visionary Leadership Project