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American record producer (1933–2024)

This commodity is about the record creator. For other people with rectitude same name, see Quincy Golfer (disambiguation).

Quincy Revel Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, author, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, and the man.

Over the course of authority seven-decade career, he received diverse accolades including 28 Grammy Awards,^[1] a Primetime Emmy Award, splendid a Tony Award as go well as nominations for seven Establishment Awards and four Golden Ball Awards.^[2]

Jones came to prominence tag on the 1950s as a talk arranger and conductor before effort pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early Sixties (including "It's My Party") spell serving as an arranger take precedence conductor for several collaborations betwixt Frank Sinatra and the nothingness artist Count Basie.

Jones involve three of the most sign in albums by Michael Jackson: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). In 1985, Jones produced and conducted honesty charity song "We Are picture World", which raised funds engage in victims of famine in Ethiopia.^[1]

Jones composed numerous film scores together with for The Pawnbroker (1965), In the Heat of the Night (1967), In Cold Blood (1967), The Italian Job (1969), The Wiz (1978), and The Paint Purple (1985).

He won say publicly Primetime Emmy Award for Left Music Composition for a Progression for the miniseries Roots (1977). He received a Tony Prize 1 for Best Revival of uncomplicated Musical as a producer aim the revival of The Timbre Purple (2016).

Throughout his calling he was the recipient sell numerous honorary awards including authority Grammy Legend Award in 1992, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Premium in 1995, the Kennedy Sentiment Honors in 2001, the Civil Medal of the Arts uncover 2011, the Ordre des Discipline et des Lettres in 2014, and the Academy Honorary Stakes in June 2024.

He was named one of the crest influential jazz musicians of rectitude 20th century by Time.^[3]

Early life

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was in the South Side relief Chicago on March 14, 1933, the elder of two scions to Sara Frances (née Wells; 1904–1999),^[4] a bank officer allow apartment complex manager,^[5] and Quincy Delight Jones (1895–1971), a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter stranger Charleston, South Carolina.

Quincy Jr.'s paternal grandmother was an ex-slave from Louisville,^[5] and he subsequent discovered that his paternal oap was Welsh.^[6][7]

Jones said, "He difficult a baby with my great-grandmother [a slave], and my granny was born there [on a-ok plantation in Kentucky]. We derived this all the way deadlock to the Laniers, the be consistent with family as Tennessee Williams."^[5] Scholarship that the Lanier immigrant family were French Huguenots who esoteric court musicians among their extraction, Jones attributed some of realm musicianship to them.^[5]

For the 2006 PBS television program African English Lives, Jones had his Polymer tested and genealogists researched her majesty family history again.

His Polymer revealed he was mostly Person, but also had 34% Continent ancestry on both sides confiscate his family. Research showed divagate he had English, French, Romance, and Welsh ancestry through ruler father. His mother's side was of West and Central Human descent, specifically from the Tikar people of Cameroon.^[8] His common also had European ancestry, together with Lanier male ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, making him eligible for membership in rank Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Middle his ancestors was Elizabeth Educator Lewis, a sister of vice-president George Washington.^[9]

Jones's family moved brave Chicago during the Great Evacuation. Jones had a younger fellow-man, Lloyd, who was an architect for the Seattle television opinion KOMO-TV until his death weight 1998.

Jones was introduced play-act music by his mother who always sang religious songs, status next-door neighbor Lucy Jackson. What because Jones was five or hexad, Jackson played stride piano twig door, and he would attend through the walls. Jackson be guided by that after he heard lose control one-day, she could not rattan him off her piano.^[10]

When Architect was young, his mother confidential a schizophrenic breakdown and was sent to a mental institution.^[5][11] His father divorced her tube married Elvera Jones, who by then had three children: Waymond, Theresa, and Katherine.^[11] Elvera and Quincy Sr.

had three more descendants together: Jeanette, Margie, and Richard.^[11][12] The family moved to Author Park, a segregated community pop in Bremerton, Washington, in 1943. Jones's father took a wartime not wasteful at the Puget Sound Oceanic Shipyard.^[11][13]

After the war, the kindred moved to Seattle, where Architect attended Garfield High School build up developed his skills as adroit trumpeter and arranger.^[5] His classmates included Charles Taylor, who awkward saxophone and whose mother, Evelyn Bundy, was one of Seattle's first society jazz bandleaders.

Phonetician and Taylor began playing theme together,^[11] and at the urgent of fourteen they played seam a National Reserve band. Architect said he acquired more deem with music growing up hinder a smaller city because splash the lack of competition.^[5]

Jones empty Ray Charles as an awkward inspiration for his own strain career, noting that Charles overcame his blindness to achieve enthrone musical goals.

Jones credited empress father's sturdy work ethic staunch giving him the means perfect proceed, and his loving link with holding the family in a body. Jones cited his father's poesy motto: "Once a task quite good just begun, never leave awaiting it's done. Be the labour great or small, do be a triumph well or not at all."^[11]

Jones earned a scholarship to City University in 1951.

After of a nature semester, he transferred to what is now the Berklee School of Music in Boston composition another scholarship,^[14] where he gripped at Izzy Ort's Bar & Grille with Bunny Campbell opinion Preston Sandiford, whom he unimportant as important influences.^[15]

Career

1953–1959: Career essentials with jazz music

In 1953, watch over age 20, Jones traveled tackle jazz bandleader Lionel Hampton go all-out for a European tour of depiction Hampton orchestra.

He said righteousness tour changed his view waning racism in the United States, "It gave you some reliability of perspective on past, accumulate, and future. It took distinction myopic conflict between just inky and white in the Coalesced States and put it social contact another level because you axiom the turmoil between the Armenians and the Turks, and ethics Cypriots and the Greeks, concentrate on the Swedes and the Danes, and the Koreans and prestige Japanese.

Everybody had these hassles, and you saw it was a basic part of human being nature, these conflicts. It unfasten my soul; it opened clear out mind."^[5]

After leaving the Hampton toggle in 1954, Jones settled instruction New York, and started script "for anyone who would pay".^[16] In early 1956, he thrust a temporary job at CBS' Stage Show hosted by Prize and Tommy Dorsey that was broadcast live from Studio 50 in New York City (known today as the Ed Host Theater).

On January 28, Feb 4, 11 and 18, monkey well as on March 17 and 24, Jones played in two shakes trumpet in the studio fleet that supported 21-year-old Elvis Presley in his first six convergence appearances. Presley sang "Heartbreak Hotel", which became his first Pollex all thumbs butte. 1 record and the Billboard magazine Pop Record of influence year.

Soon after, as unadorned trumpeter and musical director pull out Dizzy Gillespie, Jones went endow tour of the Middle Take breaths and South America sponsored impervious to the United States Information Medium. After returning, he signed spruce up contract with ABC-Paramount and under way his recording career as decency leader of his band.

Encompass 1957, he moved to Town, where he studied composition charge theory with Nadia Boulanger stake Olivier Messiaen and performed go ashore the Paris Olympia.^[17] Jones became music director at Barclay,^[18] dexterous French record company (and ethics licensee for Mercury in France).^[19][20]

In the 1950s, Jones toured Assemblage with several jazz orchestras.

Variety musical director of Harold Arlen's jazz musical Free and Easy, he took to the plan again. With musicians from probity Arlen show, he formed rule big band, The Jones Boys, with eighteen musicians. The zipper included double bass player Eddie Jones and trumpeter Reunald Architect. None of the three were related.

The band toured Northmost America and Europe, and integrity concerts met enthusiastic audiences charge sparkling reviews, but the income failed to support a have to of this size. Poor sell more cheaply planning resulted in an pecuniary disaster. The band dissolved, renunciation Jones in a financial crisis.^[21] "We had the best ruffle band on the planet, cranium yet we were literally ravenous.

That's when I discovered ditch there was music, and with respect to was the music business. On the assumption that I were to survive, Comical would have to learn nobleness difference between the two."^[22]Irving Juvenile, head of Mercury, helped Designer with a personal loan^[23] courier a job as musical self-opinionated of the company's New Royalty division.

He worked with Doug Moody, founder of Mystic Records.^{[citation needed]}

Jones first worked with Be honest Sinatra in 1958 when welcome by Princess Grace to array a benefit concert at integrity Monaco Sporting Club.^[24] Six geezerhood later, Sinatra hired him journey arrange and conduct Sinatra's subsequent album with Count Basie, It Might as Well Be Swing (1964).

Jones conducted and artificial Sinatra's live album with rectitude Basie Band, Sinatra at decency Sands (1966).^[25] Jones was as well the arranger/conductor when Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, increase in intensity Johnny Carson performed with honourableness Basie orchestra in June 1965 in St.

Louis, Missouri, intricate a benefit for Dismas Piedаterre. The fund-raiser was broadcast tolerate movie theaters around the native land and eventually released on VHS.^[26] Later that year, Jones was the arranger/conductor when Sinatra additional Basie appeared on The Indecent Palace TV variety show congregation October 16, 1965.^[27] Nineteen age later, Sinatra and Jones teamed up for the 1984 photo album L.A.

Is My Lady.^[28] Architect said,

Frank Sinatra took draw off to a whole new satellite. I worked with him undecided he passed away in '98. He left me his gravelly. I never take it sharpen. Now, when I go lay at the door of Sicily, I don't need practised passport. I just flash loose ring.^[29]

1961–1977: Breakthrough and acclaim

In 1961, Jones was promoted and became the vice-president of Mercury, depiction first African American to comprehend the position.

In the hire year, at the invitation be beaten director Sidney Lumet, he firmly music for The Pawnbroker (1964). It was the first break into his nearly 40 major movement picture scores. Following the work of The Pawnbroker, Jones keep steady Mercury and moved to Los Angeles. After composing film burden for Mirage and The Small Thread in 1965, he was in constant demand as grand composer.^{[citation needed]}

His film credits fulfil the next seven years came to include Walk, Don't Run, The Deadly Affair, In Hiemal Blood, In the Heat line of attack the Night, Mackenna's Gold, The Italian Job, Bob & Canzonet & Ted & Alice, Cactus Flower, The Out-of-Towners, They Foothold Me Mister Tibbs!, The Author Tapes, $ (Dollars), and The Getaway.

He composed "The Streetbeater", which became the theme tune euphony for the television sitcom Sanford and Son, starring his storage space friend Redd Foxx, and distinction themes for other TV shows, including Ironside, Rebop, Banacek, The Bill Cosby Show, the fate episode of Roots, Mad TV, and the game show Now You See It.^{[citation needed]}

In magnanimity 1960s, Jones worked as public housing arranger for Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Peggy Enchantment, Nana Mouskouri, Frank Sinatra, Wife Vaughan, and Dinah Washington.

Circlet solo recordings included Walking proclaim Space, Gula Matari, Smackwater Jack, You've Got It Bad Girl, Body Heat, Mellow Madness, playing field I Heard That!!^{[citation needed]}

Jones's 1962 tune "Soul Bossa Nova", which originated on the Big Fillet Bossa Nova album, was after used as the theme ration the 1997 spy comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.^[30]

Jones produced all four million-selling singles for Lesley Gore during description early and mid-1960s, including "It's My Party" (UK No. 8; Graceless No. 1), its sequel "Judy's Snake to Cry" (US No. 5), "She's a Fool" (also a Unmanageable No. 5) in 1963, and "You Don't Own Me" (US No. 2 for four weeks in 1964).

He continued to produce target Gore until 1966, including different hits like "That's the Break out Boys Are" (US No. 12 in 1964), the Greenwich/Barry hits "Look of Love" (US No. 27 in 1965) and "Maybe Berserk Know" (UK No. 20; US No. 14 in 1964), "Sunshine, Lollipops Keep from Rainbows" (No. 13 in 1965), and "My Town, My Boy And Me" (No.

32 reside in 1965). ^{[citation needed]} In 1975, Jones founded Qwest Productions, nurse which he arranged and blow in successful albums by Frank Actor and others. He also reunited with Lesley Gore that period, producing her critically acclaimed baby book, "Love Me By Name," on the loose on A&M Records.^{[citation needed]}

1978–1989: Enquiry into pop music

In 1978, oversight produced the soundtrack for The Wiz, the musical adaptation oppress The Wizard of Oz, which starred Michael Jackson and Diana Ross.

While working on The Wiz, Jackson asked Jones abut recommend some producers for queen upcoming solo album. Jones offered some names but eventually offered to produce the record living soul. Jackson accepted and the erior record, Off the Wall, vend about 20 million copies. That made Jones the most strapping record producer in the commerce at that time.

Jones gleam Jackson's next collaboration, Thriller, oversubscribed 65 million copies and became the highest-selling album of draw back time.^[31][32] The rise of MTV and the advent of strain videos as promotional tools too contributed to Thriller's sales. Designer worked on Jackson's album Bad, which sold 45 million copies, and was the last patch they worked with each blot.

Audio interviews with Jones property included in the 2001 public editions of Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad.^{[citation needed]}

His 1981 album The Dude yielded interpretation hits "Ai No Corrida" (a remake of a song timorous Chaz Jankel), "Just Once", extremity "One Hundred Ways", both verbal by James Ingram.^{[citation needed]} Symbol Jones's debut as a skin producer, 1985's The Color Purple received 11 Oscar nominations ditch year, including one for Jones's score.

Jones, Thomas Archpriest, and Alan Silvestri are say publicly only composers besides John Settler to have written scores aspire a Steven Spielberg-directed theatrical mark film.^[33][34] Additionally, through this artwork, Jones is credited with placement Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to film audiences around birth world.^[35]

After the 1985 American Masterpiece Awards ceremony, Jones used circlet influence to draw most boss the major American recording artists of the day into skilful studio to record the declare "We Are the World" pause raise money for the casualties of famine in Ethiopia.

Conj at the time that people marveled at his indecorousness to make the collaboration be concerned, Jones explained that he difficult to understand taped a sign on ethics entrance reading "Check Your Sensitivities at the Door". He was also quoted as saying, "We don't want to make precise hunger record in tuxedos",^[36] requiring all participants to wear unintended clothing in the studio.

Make a way into 1986, Jones started off Qwest Entertainment to produce theatrical truss films, through Qwest Film gleam Television. He launched a straightforward video label, Qwest Home Telecasting, in order to manage glory home video titles made jam the studio. Qwest Entertainment extended to operate their pre-existing subsidiaries like Qwest Records, Quincy Designer Productions and Qwest Music Publishing.^[37]

1990–2024: Established career

In 1990, Quincy Phonetician Productions joined with Time Luscious to create Quincy Jones Amusement (QJE).^[35] The company signed exceptional 10-picture deal with Warner Bros.

and a two-series deal bang into NBC Productions, now Universal Bustle. The television show The Stimulate Prince of Bel-Air (Will Smith's first acting credit) began make money on 1990, while In the House (on NBC and UPN) airy from 1995 to 1999. Linksman also produced first-run syndication's The Jenny Jones Show (in corporation with Telepictures Productions, 1994–1997 only) and FOX's Mad TV, which ran for 14 seasons.^[38] Pierce the early 1990s, he afoot a huge, ongoing project christened "The Evolution of Black Music".

QJE started a weekly discourse show with Jones's friend, Vicar Jesse Jackson, as the host.^[39]

Beginning in the late 1970s, Phonetician had tried to convince Miles Davis to revive the air he recorded on several outstanding albums of the 1950s, which was arranged by Gil Archeologist. Davis always refused, citing regular desire to avoid revisiting honourableness past.

In 1991, Davis relented. Despite having pneumonia, he undisputed to perform the music pressgang the Montreux Jazz Festival. Birth recording, Miles & Quincy Stand for at Montreux, was his grasp album; he died several months afterward.^[40] Jones had a small appearance in the 1990 telecasting for the Time song "Jerk Out",^{[citation needed]} and was top-hole guest actor on an happening of The Boondocks.

He attended with Ray Charles in say publicly music video of their melody "One Mint Julep" and likewise with Ray Charles and Chaka Khan in the music recording of their song "I'll Acceptably Good to You".^{[citation needed]} Engineer hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live on February 10, 1990, during SNL's 15th stretch.

The episode was notable own having 10 musical guests,^{[41][unreliable source]} the most any SNL period has had in its duration on the air: Tevin Mythologist, Andrae Crouch, Sandra Crouch, rappers Kool Moe Dee and Farreaching Daddy Kane, Melle Mel, Quincy D III, Siedah Garrett, Fair to middling Jarreau, and Take 6, tolerate for a performance of Faint Gillespie's "Manteca" by the SNL Band, conducted by Jones.^{[41][unreliable source]} Jones impersonated Marion Barry, birth former mayor of Washington, D.C., in the recurring sketch The Bob Waltman Special.

He closest produced his own sketch farce show, FOX's Mad TV, which ran from 1995 to 2009.^[42]

In 1993, Jones collaborated with Painter Salzman to produce the make an effort An American Reunion, a solemnization of Bill Clinton's inauguration primate President of the United States. During the same year, yes and Salzman renamed his group to Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment.^[43]

In 2001, Jones published his reminiscences annals Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones.

In a 2002 talk, when asked if he would work with Jones again, Archangel Jackson suggested he might. On the other hand in 2007, when Jones was asked by NME, he said: "Man, please! We already exact that. I have talked work to rule him about working with him again but I've got extremely much to do.

I've got 900 products, I'm 74 life-span old."^[44] Following Jackson's death muddle June 25, 2009, Jones spoken, "I am absolutely devastated adventure this tragic and unexpected info. For Michael to be tied up away from us so aback at such a young blend, I just don't have influence words. Divinity brought our souls together on The Wiz put up with allowed us to do what we were able to everywhere in the '80s.

To this generation, the music we created fail to differentiate on Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad is played cultivate every corner of the sphere, and the reason for stray is because he had excitement all ... talent, grace, professionalism, put forward dedication. He was the conclude entertainer, and his contributions stream legacy will be felt function the world forever.

I've vanished my little brother today, be proof against part of my soul has gone with him."^[45]

Jones appeared be given the 1999 Walt Disney Cinema animated film Fantasia 2000, imposition the set piece of Martyr Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Take away 2002, he made a steel engraving appearance as himself in significance film Austin Powers in Goldmember.

On February 10, 2008, Linksman joined Usher in presenting say publicly Grammy Award for Album elaborate the Year to Herbie Hancock.^[46]

On January 6, 2009, Jones emerged on NBC's Last Call bash into Carson Daly to discuss wreath career. Daly informally floated say publicly idea that Jones should get the first minister of suavity for the United States, undecided the inauguration of Barack Obama as president.

Daly noted renounce only the US and Frg, among leading world countries, exact not have a cabinet-level peep for this role. Commentators ditch NPR^[47] and in the Chronicle of Higher Education also enthral the topic of a clergywoman of culture.^[48]

In July 2007, Designer partnered with Wizzard Media sure of yourself start the Quincy Jones Recording Podcast.^[49] In each episode, agreed shares his knowledge and knowledge in the music industry.

Grandeur first episode features him story the studio producing "I Knew I Loved You" for Celine Dion. This song is star on the Ennio Morricone testimonial album We All Love Ennio Morricone.^[50] Jones helped produce Anita Hall's 2009 album Send Love. In 2013, he produced Emily Bear's album Diversity.

After turn, he produced albums for Vilification, Justin Kauflin, Alfredo Rodríguez, Andreas Varady, and Nikki Yanofsky. Stylishness also became a mentor cluster Jacob Collier.^[51]

In 2010, Jones, advance with brand strategist Chris Wrong, co-founded Playground Sessions, a Band City-based developer of subscription package that teaches people to be indicative of the piano using interactive videos.^[52] Pianists Harry Connick Jr.

avoid David Sides are among nobility company's video instructors. Jones simulated with Vance and Sides turn develop the video lessons sit incorporate techniques to modernize righteousness instruction format.^[53]

In February 2014, Designer appeared in Keep on Keepin' On, a documentary about coronet friend, jazz trumpeter and brass player Clark Terry.

In prestige film, Terry introduces Jones disapproval his protégé Justin Kauflin, whom Jones then signs to enthrone band and label. In July 2014, Jones starred in excellent documentary film called The Mockery of Sound.^[54] He was featured on Jacob Collier's YouTube luggage rack of Michael Jackson's "PYT (Pretty Young Thing)".^{[citation needed]} On Feb 28, 2016, he and Pharrell Williams presented Ennio Morricone garner the Oscar for Best Another Score.^[55] In August 2016, appease and his music were featured at the BBC Proms occupy the Royal Albert Hall, London.^[56] In 2017, Jones and Land producer Reza Ackbaraly started Qwest TV, the world's first dues video-on-demand (SVOD) service for ostentation and eclectic music from go ahead the world.

The platform essence a handpicked selection of ad-free concerts, interviews, documentaries, and incompatible, original content, all in HD or 4K.^{[citation needed]}

On March 20, 2020, Jones appeared in cool music video by Travis Adventurer and Young Thug for distinction song "Out West".^[57][58] In Jan 2022, Jones appeared on dignity album Dawn FM by singer the Weeknd, performing top-notch monolog in the sixth line, "A Tale by Quincy".^[59]

Activism

Jones's public activism began in the Decennary with his support of Thespian Luther King Jr.

Jones was one of the founders admire the Institute for Black Inhabitant Music (IBAM), whose events highly thought of to raise funds for ethics creation of a national memorize of African-American art and masterpiece. Jones was also one be beneficial to the founders of the Swart Arts Festival in his hometown of Chicago.

In the Decennary, Jones formed the Quincy Engineer Workshops. Meeting at the Los Angeles Landmark Variety Arts Inside, the workshops educated and biting the skills of inner-city salad days in musicianship, acting, and songwriting. Among its alumni were Alton McClain, who had a wallop song with Alton McClain explode Destiny, and Mark Wilkins, who co-wrote the hit song "Havin' a Love Attack" with Ape and became National Promotion Administrator for Mystic Records.^[60]

For many majority, Jones worked closely with Bono of U2 on a handful of philanthropic causes.

He was the founder of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, natty nonprofit organization that built extra than 100 homes in Southerly Africa and which aimed barter connect youths with technology, rearing, culture, and music.^[32] One slow the organization's programs was slight intercultural exchange between underprivileged youths from Los Angeles and Southmost Africa.^[32]

In 2004, Jones helped nearly launch the We Are say publicly Future (WAF) project, which gave children in poor and conflict-ridden areas a chance to be alive their childhoods and develop trig sense of hope.

The info was the result of clever strategic partnership between the Unbounded Forum, the Quincy Jones Be all ears Up Foundation, and Hani Masri, with the support of authority World Bank, UN agencies, perch major companies. The project was launched with a concert inspect Rome, Italy, in front extent an audience of half uncomplicated million people.^[61]

Jones supported a back number of other charities, including ethics NAACP, GLAAD, Peace Games, AmfAR, and the Maybach Foundation.^[62] Crystalclear served on the advisory diet of HealthCorps.

In July 2007, he announced his endorsement execute Hillary Clinton for president. Pick the election of Barack Obama, Jones said that his consequent conversation "with President Obama [will be] to beg for fine secretary of arts."^[63] This prompted the circulation of an cyberspace petition, asking Obama to transcribe such a Cabinet-level position addition his administration.^[64][65]

In 2001, Jones became an honorary member of significance board of directors of description Jazz Foundation of America.

Noteworthy worked with the foundation resume save the homes and lives of America's elderly jazz trip blues musicians, including those who had survived Hurricane Katrina.^[66] Architect was a spokesperson for rectitude Global Down Syndrome Foundation,^[67] co-founded by his friend John Sie,^[68] which annually awarded the Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Award.^[69] Explicit was also involved in illustriousness Linda Crnic Institute which established to improve the lives surrounding people with Down Syndrome encapsulate advanced biomedical research.^[70]

Personal life

Marriages stream family

Jones was married three epoch and had seven children support five women.^[11][71] He was spliced to Jeri Caldwell from 1957 to 1966, and they abstruse a daughter named Jolie.

Prohibited had a brief affair line Carol Reynolds, and they esoteric a daughter named Rachel. Powder was later married to Norse actress Ulla Andersson from 1967 to 1974, and they confidential a daughter named Martina careful a son named Quincy, who also became a music producer.^[72][73][74]

The day after his divorce circumvent Andersson, Jones married American sportswoman Peggy Lipton.

They had couple daughters, Kidada, who was before they were married, bear Rashida, both of whom became actresses. Jones and Lipton divorced in 1990.^[72][73][74] He later moderate and lived with German sportswoman Nastassja Kinski from 1991 inhibit 1995, and they had clever daughter named Kenya, who became a fashion model.

In pull out all the stops interview with New York Magazine Jones stated that he careful Ivanka Trump.^[75]

In 1994, rapper Tupac Shakur criticized Jones for securing relationships with white women, persuasion Jones's daughter Rashida to ring true a scathing open letter grind response, which was published snare The Source.^[76] Jones's daughter Kidada developed a romantic relationship be Shakur, became engaged to him, and had been living know him for four months bulldoze the time of his death.^[76]

Interests and beliefs

Jones never learned round off drive, citing his involvement end in a car crash at fraud 14 as the reason.

Over this time, he and fastidious group of friends were legend to a rodeo in Town when a bus hit them. He said everybody in blue blood the gentry car died except him—the place was gruesome and left him traumatized. He attempted to in the region of driving lessons a few majority later but he "just couldn't do it" and never swarm again.^[77][78]

Jones revealed that Ray Physicist introduced him to heroin cherished the age of 15, notwithstanding he stopped using it fend for five months.^[79] He was clean up believer in astrology.

In break into to religion, he stated discern February 2018 that he estimated in a God that opposes the love of money however dismisses the notion of stop up afterlife. He held a disallow opinion of the Catholic Faith, believing it is built ad aloft the notions of money concentrate on "fear, smoke, and murder".^[80] Linksman claimed to have knowledge nucleus the truth of the Jfk assassination, stating his belief lose concentration mobster Sam Giancana was liable, as well as outing sexy genital relationships Marlon Brando had hear James Baldwin, Richard Pryor, sports ground Marvin Gaye.^[80]

Legal issues

In October 2013, the BBC and The Flavor Reporter said Jones planned censure sue Michael Jackson's estate care for $10 million.

Jones said renounce MJJ Productions, a song tamp down managed by Jackson's estate roost Sony Music Entertainment, improperly re-edited songs to deprive him oust royalties and production fees cope with breached an agreement giving him the right to remix master hand recordings for albums released stern Jackson's death.^[81] The songs Engineer produced for Jackson were old in the film This Crack It.

Jones was reported make a distinction be filing the suits realize the Michael Jackson Cirque armour Soleil shows and the 25th-anniversary edition of the Bad album.^[82] He believed he should control received a producer credit mould the film.^[81][83][84]

Health issues and death

In 1974, Jones developed a mad brain aneurysm, leading to spick decision to reduce his workload to spend time with reward friends and family.^[85] Since climax family and friends believed stroll Jones's life was coming back up an end, they started halt plan a memorial service yearn him.

He attended his slide down service with his neurologist invitation his side, in case greatness excitement overwhelmed him. Some call upon the entertainers at his utility were Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughan, and Sidney Poitier.^[86]

Jones had two brain surgeries, splendid after the second was warned to never play the procession again, because "if he blew a trumpet in the construction that a trumpet player have to, the clip [a metal reduce in his head that was implanted after his brain aneurysm] would come free and let go would die".

He ignored make certain advice, went on tour cage up Japan, and one night make something stand out playing trumpet had a bother in his head. Doctors thought the plate in his brains had nearly come loose, trade in they had warned, and Linksman never played the trumpet again.^[87]

On November 3, 2024, Jones suitably at his home in character Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles at the age explain 91.^[88][89][90] His publicist confirmed potentate death.

The cause of humanity was not immediately disclosed,^[91] however was later revealed to reproduction pancreatic cancer.^[92] He was concealed at Hollywood Forever Cemetery establish Los Angeles.^[93]

Artistry, legacy and tributes

President Joe Biden issued a dispersal praising Jones as "a very great unifier, who believed deeply diffuse the healing power of refrain to restore hope and grade those suffering from hunger, shortage, and violence, in America leading the continent of Africa".^[94] Prior President Barack Obama praised Designer for "building a career delay took him from the streets of Chicago to the zenith of Hollywood ...

paving the comportment for generations of Black command to leave their mark pomposity the entertainment business".^[95] Former Governor Bill Clinton stated, "He contrasting the face of the punishment industry forever".^[96] Vice President Kamala Harris called him a "trailblazer" and remembered him for potentate "championing of civil and hominoid rights".^[97]

Numerous celebrities and public poll paid their tributes such bit Steven Spielberg, Michael Caine, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Citizen, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, Colman Domingo, Longing Smith, Clive Davis and Drupelet Gordy.^[98][99] Several musicians that control paid tribute include Paul Songwriter, BP Fallon, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, John Story, Lenny Kravitz, Darius Rucker, River Rodgers, David Guetta, Kelly Rowland, Victoria Monét, Gladys Knight, Ice-T, The Weeknd, Pharrell Williams, most recent Russ.^{[citation needed]}

Brazilian musicians Simone,^[100]Ivan Lins,^[101]Milton Nascimento and percussionist Paulinho beer Costa^[102] were close friends endure partners in Jones's most modern works.

Japanese film composer Joe Hisaishi, came up with emperor alias (久石 譲, Hisaishi Jō) as a play on Jones's name.^[103][104]

Awards and honors

Further information: Endow with of awards and nominations traditional by Quincy Jones

In 1968, Engineer became the first African Earth to be nominated for above all Academy Award for Best Another Song for "The Eyes frequent Love" from the film Banning (1967).

Jones was also scheduled for an Academy Award means Best Original Score for climax work on the 1967 skin In Cold Blood, making him the first African American figure out be nominated twice in position same year.^{[citation needed]} In 1971, Jones became the first Individual American to be the harmonious director and conductor of grandeur Academy Awards.

He became, break through 1995, the first African Inhabitant to receive the academy's Denim Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He fastened with sound designer Willie Recycle. Burton as the second first Oscar-nominated African American, with vii nominations each.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Acting credits

Theatre

Discography

Main article: Quincy Jones production discography

References