Quincy Jones

At 91 years old, Quincy Jones has this physical status:

Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and film and television producer.

With a record 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992, his career spans more than 60 years in the entertainment business. Jones appeared in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before heading to work in pop music and film scores.

In 1969 Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African-Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the film Banning's "The Eyes of Love" by Robert Russell.

Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for his 1967 film In Cold Blood, making him the first African-American to be nominated twice in the same year.

In 1971, he became the first African-American to serve as the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony.

He was the first African-American to be recognized with the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995.

With seven nominations each, he tied for second most Oscar-nominated African-American. Sound designer Willie D. Burton is tied for second. Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987), as well as the producer and conductor of the 1985 charity song "We Are the World," which raised funds for victims of the Ethiopian famine.

Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 as the winner of the Ahmet Ertegun Award, alongside Lou Adler.

According to Time magazine, he was named one of the twentieth century's most influential jazz musicians.

Early life

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was born on March 14, 1933, to Sarah Frances (died 1999), a bank officer and apartment complex manager, and Quincy Delight Jones, a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky. Jones' paternal grandmother was an ex-slave from Louisville, and Jones later learned that his paternal grandfather was Welsh. Jones discovered that one of his mother's ancestors, James Lanier, a cousin of poet Sidney Lanier, was a writer who worked with author Alex Haley in 1972 and Latter-day Saint researchers in Salt Lake City. "He had a baby with my great-grandmother [a slave], and my grandmother was born there [on a plantation in Kentucky]. We followed this back to the Laniers, the same family as Tennessee Williams." Jones found that the Lanier immigrant ancestors were French Huguenots who had court musicians among their ancestors, who owed a part of their musical training, and owed a part of his musicianship to them.

Jones' DNA was tested for the PBS television show African American Lives in 2006, and genealogists looked at his family history. His DNA revealed that he is mainly African, but that he has 34% European ancestry on both sides of his family. According to reports, he had ancestry in England, French, Italian, and Welsh. He also had Welsh, French, Italian, and Welsh Welsh roots through his father. His mother's line is of West and Central African descent, particularly the Tikar people of Cameroon. His mother had ancestry in Europe, including Lanier male ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, making him eligible for membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Betty Washington Lewis, a niece of president George Washington, was one of his ancestors.

During the Great Migration, Jones' family immigrated to Chicago. Lloyd Jones, a younger brother who worked at the Seattle television station KOMO-TV until his death in 1998, was an engineer. Jones was introduced to music by his mother, who also performed religious songs, and Lucy Jackson, a next-door neighbor. Jackson played stride piano next door, and he'd look through the walls. After she heard her one-day, Jackson realized she could not get him off her piano.

His mother suffered a schizophrenic breakdown and was taken to a mental hospital when Jones was young. His father divorced his mother and married Elvera Jones, who already had three children of her own named Waymond, Theresa, and Katherine. Jeanette, Margie, and Richard later became a family of three children together in Elvera and Quincy Sr. Jones and his family immigrated to Bremerton, Washington, where his father served at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for a wartime war. The family lived in Seattle, where Jones attended Garfield High School during the war. He developed his skills as a trumpeter and arranger in high school. Charles Taylor, a saxophone and whose mother, Evelyn Bundy, was one of Seattle's first society jazz bandleaders. Jones and Taylor began playing together, and together at the age of fourteen, they formed a National Reserve band. Jones said he had much more success with music in a smaller town because he otherwise would not have faced too much competition.

After watching Ray Charles play at the Black Elks Club at age 14, Jones introduced him to him. Charles is cited as a precursor to his own musical career, with Charles citing the fact that he overcame a disability (blindness) to fulfill his musical aspirations. He cited his father's hard work ethic as his dad's ability to continue and his loving care for keeping the family together. Jones said his father had a rhyming motto: "Once a task is started, never leave until it's complete." Is the job thriving or small, do it well or not at all?" Jones received a scholarship to Seattle University in 1951. Jones earned a second scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston after one semester. During his Berklee experience, he performed with Bunny Campbell and Preston Sandiford, who were both identified as influential musical influences. After being accepted as a trumpeter, arranger, and pianist with bandleader Lionel Hampton, he left his studies and embarked on his professional career. On the road with Hampton, he had a gift for arranging songs. He moved to New York City, where he wrote for Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Count Basie, Gene Krupa, and Ray Charles, who was then a close friend of his.

Personal life

Jones never learned to drive, blaming his participation in a car crash at age 14.

Ray Charles introduced him to heroin at 15, but he stopped using the drug after falling down five flights of stairs. He is a believer of astrology. In February 2018, he said he believes in a God that opposes the love of money but dismisses the prospect of an afterlife; nevertheless, he has a skeptical view of the Catholic Church, believing it is based on the belief of wealth and "fear, smoke, and murder." Jones said he was aware of the assassination of Kennedy, adding to the fact that mobster Sam Giancana was responsible for Marlon Brando's sexual relations with James Baldwin, Richard Pryor, and Marvin Gaye. Jones confessed to dating Ivanka Trump despite protesting disdain for her father in the same interview. He later apologised for the interview after a family intervention with his six children, blaming the events on "word vomit."

Jones had a life-threatening brain aneurysm in 1974, triggering the decision to limit his hours to spend time with his colleagues and family. Since Jones' life was coming to an end, his family and friends decided to plan a memorial service for him. In case the commotion overwhelmed him, he attended his own funeral with his neurologist by his side. Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughan, and Sidney Poitier were among the entertainers at his funeral.

Jones has married three times and has seven children with five different women. He and Jeri Caldwell lived together from 1957 to 1966, and they had a daughter named Jolie. He had a brief affair with Carol Reynolds, and they had a daughter named Rachel. He was married to Swedish actress Ulla Andersson from 1967 to 1974, and the couple had a daughter named Martina and a son named Quincy, who later became a music producer. Jones married Peggy Lipton, an American actor the day after his divorce from Andersson. They had two children, Kidada (who was born before they were married) and Rashida, both of whom were actors. In 1989, Jones and Lipton divorced. He dated and lived with German actress Nastassja Kinski from 1991 to 1995, and the couple had a daughter named Kenya, who became a fashion model.

Tupac Shakur, a rapper who had misintimations with white people, prompted Jones' daughter Rashida to write a scathing open letter in reaction, which was first published in The Source. Kidada, Rashida's sister, had a romantic relationship with Shakur and had been living with him for four months at the time of his death.

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Music career

Jones, who was 20 years old at the time, travelled with jazz bandleader Lionel Hampton for a European tour of the Hampton orchestra. The tour changed his view of bigotry in the United States, according to him: The tour changed his perception of bigotry in the United States.

Jones started working at CBS' Stage Show hosted by Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey in early 1956, (now known as the Ed Sullivan Theater) in New York City. Jones appeared in the studio band that promoted 21-year-old Elvis Presley on January 28, 2011, January 11, 18, as well as March 17 and 24, his second trumpet in the studio band that backed him in his first six television appearances. Presley performed "Heartbreak Hotel," his first No. 1 on the show. 1 record and the year's biggest newspaper Pop Record of the Year. Jones, as a trumpeter and musical director for Dizzy Gillespie, began a tour of the Middle East and South America sponsored by the US Information Agency shortly after. He rejoined ABC-Paramount and began his music as the frontman of his band. He settled in Paris in 1957, where he studied composition and theory with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen and appeared at the Paris Olympia. He became music director at Barclay, a French record company, and the licensee for Mercury in France.

Jones appeared in Europe during the 1950s with several jazz orchestras. He took to the streets again as the musical director of Harold Arlen's jazz musical Free and Easy. In February 1960, a European tour came to an end in Paris. He formed his big band the Jones Boys with eighteen musicians from the Arlen show. Eddie Jones, a double bass player, and trumpeter Reunald Jones were among the group's members (none of the three players was related). The band toured North America and Europe, and the concerts attracted raving audiences and blasted critiques, but the profits were ineffective for a band of this size. Poor budget planning resulted in an economic crisis; the band disbanded, leaving Jones in a financial crisis.

"We had the world's best jazz band, and yet we were still starving." I first heard there was music and that the music industry was flourishing. If I were to survive, I would have to know the difference between the two species."

Irving Green, Mercury's president, aided Jones with a personal loan and a position as the company's New York division's musical director. He worked with Doug Moody, the maker of Mystic Records, who was a student at the University of Arkansas.

Jones was appointed vice president of Mercury in 1961, becoming the first African American to hold the position. He composed music for The Pawnbroker (1964), during the same year, at the invitation of director Sidney Lumet. It was the first of his nearly 40 major motion picture scores. Jones left Mercury and moved to Los Angeles following The Pawnbroker's success. He was in constant demand as a composer after composing film scores for Mirage and The Slender Thread in 1965. Walk, Don't Run, The Deadly Affair, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, Mackenna's Gold, Bob & Carol, They Call Me Mister Tibbs, $ (Dollars), and The Getaway were among his film credits over the next seven years. In addition,, he wrote "The Streetbeater," which became the theme music for Sanford and Son, starring his close friend Redd Foxx, and the opening episode of Roots, Mad TV, and the game show Now You See It.

Jones was an arranger for Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Peggy Lee, Nana Mouskouri, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, and Dinah Washington in the 1960s. Walking in Space, Gula Matari, Smackwater Jack, You've Got It Bad Girl, Body Heat, Mellow Madness, and I Heard That!

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The theme for Austin Powers: The International Man of Mystery, Jones' 1962 tune "Soul Bossa Nova," which appeared on the Big Band Bossa Nova album, was chosen as the subject.

During the early and mid-sixties, Jones released all four million-selling singles for Lesley Gore, including "It's My Party" (UK No. 1). 8 is the most popular in the United States; the United States No. 8 is a fictional character from the movie "The Unknown Person" is the number eight. (US No. 8) The sequel "Judy's Turn to Cry" was released on YouTube. 5), "She's a Fool" (also a US No. 1). "You Don't Own Me" is a movie that starred in 1963) in the United States No. 5: "You Don't Own Me" is a song by the 1960s. In 1964, there were two for four weeks in a row. He continued to produce for Gore until 1966, including the Greenwich/Barry hits "Look of Love" (US No. 1). "Maybe I Know" (UK No. 27 in 1965) and "Maybe I Know" (UK No. 27). The United States No. 20 is the largest in the United States; the United States has no. 20. In 1964, there were 14 people in the country.

He formed Qwest Productions in 1975, which sold hit albums by Frank Sinatra and others. He produced the soundtrack for The Wiz, Michael Jackson and Diana Ross' musical interpretation of The Wizard of Oz, in 1978. He produced Jackson's Thriller, the country's biggest album ever, in 1982.

"Ai No Correta" (a remake of a song by Chaz Jankel), "Just Once" and "One Hundred Ways" were among his 1981 album The Dude's hits, as sung by James Ingram.

The Color Purple, 1985's debut as a film producer, received 11 Oscar nominations, including one for Jones' score. The only composers other than John Williams to have written scores for a Steven Spielberg-directed theatrical feature film are Jones, Thomas Newman, and Alan Silvestri. In addition, Jones is credited with introducing Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to film audiences around the world through this film.

Jones converted the majority of the day's greatest American recording artists to record "We Are the World" at the 1985 American Music Awards ceremony to raise funds for Ethiopia's victims of famine. Jones explained that he taped a sign on the door reading "Check Your Ego at the Door" as he marveled at his potential to do the collaboration work. He was later quoted as saying, "We don't want to make a hunger record in tuxedos," requiring all participants to wear casual clothing in the studio. He founded Qwest Entertainment in 1986, along with Qwest Film and Television, and launched Qwest Home Video in order to handle the studio's home video titles. Qwest Entertainment, Quincy Jones Productions, and Qwest Music Publishing will continue to be operated by Qwest Entertainment.

Quincy Jones Productions formed Quincy Jones Entertainment in 1990, a time Warner company. (QJE) Warner Bros. Pictures and a two-series contract with NBC Productions (now Universal Television). The television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was produced in 1990, but In the House (from UPN) denied its early concept stages. Jones produced the award-winning The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (discovering Will Smith), UPN's In the House, first-Run Syndication's The Jenny Jones Exhibition (in collaboration with Telepictures Productions, 1994-1997 only) and FOX's Madtv, which lasted for 14 seasons. In the early 1990s, he began "The Evolution of Black Music," a huge, ongoing project. As the host, QJE began a weekly talk show with Jones's companion, Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Jones started in the late 1970s and tried to convince Miles Davis to revive the music he recorded on several classic albums of the 1950s, which were arranged by Gil Evans. Davis had never said no, citing a desire not to repeat the past. Davison, on the other hand, recovered in 1991. Despite having pneumonia, he committed to playing the music at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux was his last album; he died a few months afterward.

Jones joined An American Reunion in 1993, a commemoration of Bill Clinton's appointment as President of the United States. He and Salzman renamed his firm Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment during the same year.

Jones' autobiography Q: Quincy Jones' Autobiography was released in 2001. He co-founded the Quincy Jones Video Podcast on July 31, 2007. In each episode, he discusses his interest and expertise in the music industry. In the first episode, Celine Dion's "I Knew I Loved You" appears in the studio. This is included on Ennio Morricone's tribute album We All Love Ennio Morricone.

Jones was instrumental in the production of Anita Hall's 2009 album Send Love. Emily Bear's album Diversity was released in 2013. After that, he made albums for Grace, Justin Kauflin, Alfredo Rodrin, Andreas Varady, and Nikki Yanofsky. He also served as a mentor to Jacob Collier.

Jones and French producer Reza Ackbaraly launched Qwest TV, the world's first subscription-on-demand (SVOD) service for jazz and eclectic music from around the world in 2017. The website features a handpicked collection of ad-free concerts, interviews, filmmakers, and original, original content, which can be seen in HD or 4K.

Jones, along with brand strategist Chris Vance, co-founded Playground Sessions, a New York City-based subscription software that helps people play the piano by using interactive videos in 2010. Harry Connick Jr. and David Sides, the company's video instructors, are among the company's video tutors. Jones collaborated with Vance and Sides to create the video lessons and incorporate techniques in order to modernize the instruction style.

Quincy Jones first performed with Frank Sinatra in 1958 when Princess Grace encouraged her to host a benefit performance at the Monaco Sporting Club. Sinatra recruited him to produce and conduct Sinatra's second album, It Might Be Swing (1964). Jones produced and arranged Sinatra's live album with the Basie Band, Sinatra at the Sands (1966). When Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, and Johnny Carson appeared with the Basie orchestra in June 1965 in a benefit for Dismas House, Jones was also the arranger/conductor. The fund-raiser was first distributed to movie theaters around the country and then to VHS. Jones, an arranger/conductor, appeared on Sinatra and Basie's television show on October 16, 1965, later this year. Sinatra and Jones teamed up in 1984 for the L.A. Is My Lady, nineteen years later.

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Michael Jackson, who was filming The Wiz, begged Jones to suggest some producers for his forthcoming solo album. Jones provided some names, but the record was eventually offered to be made by himself. Jackson was accepted, and Off the Wall, the resulting album, has sold approximately 20 million copies. Jones became the most popular record producer in the industry at the time. Jones and Jackson's next collaboration, Thriller, has sold 65 million copies and became the highest-selling album of all time. Thriller's revenues were also affected by MTV's rise and the emergence of music videos as marketing aids. Jones was a member of Jackson's album Bad, which has sold 45 million copies, and it was the last time they worked together. In the 2001 special editions of Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad, audio interviews with Jones are included.

When asked if he would return to Jones in a 2002 interview, Jackson said yes. "Man, please," Jones said when NME first approached Jones in 2007. We've already did it. I've talked to him about working with him again, but I have a lot to do. "I'm 74 years old and I'm selling 900 items."

Jones said in the aftermath of Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, Jones said: "In the aftermath of Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, Jones said:

Jones hoped to sue Michael Jackson's estate for $10 million in October 2013. The BBC and The Hollywood Reporter reported it. Jones said that MJJ Productions, a Jackson's estate and Sony Music Entertainment, improperly re-edited songs to deprive him of royalties and production fees, in violation of an agreement that gave him the right to remix master recordings for albums released after Jackson's death. In the film This Is It, Jones' songs were used. Jones was reported to have filed the complaint against Michael Jackson Cirque du Soleil and the Bad album's 25th anniversary edition. He said he should have been given a producer credit in the film.

Simone, the Brazilian singer; Brazilian singer Ivan Lins and Milton Nascimento; and Brazilian drummer Paulinho da Costa, who Jones describes as "one of the best in the business," have all become close friends and colleagues in his latest performances; Brazilian guitarist Ivan Lins and Milton Nascimento; and Brazilian guitarist Paulinho da Costa, who Jones describes as "one of the world's best entertainers"; Brazilian musicians Ivan Lins and Milton Nascimento; and percussionist Paulinho

Jones appeared on Time's "Jerk Out" in 1990, and he was a guest star on an episode of The Boondocks. In the music video of their song "One Mint Julep" he appeared with Ray Charles and Chaka Khan, as well as Ray Charles and Chaka Khan in the "I'll Be Good to You" video. On Sunday Night Live, Jones hosted an episode of the long-running NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live on February 10, 1990 (during SNL's 15th season). The episode was notable for featuring ten musical guests (the most any SNL episode has had): Tevin Campbell, Andrae Crouch, Sandra Crouch, rappers, Kool Moe Dee, Melle Mel, Quincy D III, Siedah Garrett, Al Jardah Garrett, Andrae Garrett, Al Jarch, and Take 6, as well as a performance of Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca" by the SNL Band (conducting In the recurring sketch The Bob Waltman Special, Jones impersonated Marion Barry, the former mayor of Washington, D.C. He later developed FOX's MADtv, a sketch comedy program that ran from 1995 to 2009.

Jones appeared in the 1999 Walt Disney Pictures animated film Fantasia 2000, introducing George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue's set piece. He made a cameo appearance in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember two years ago. Jones joined Usher in presenting the Grammy Award for Album of the Year to Herbie Hancock on February 10, 2008. On January 6, 2009, he appeared on NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly to talk about his work. Daly had formally discussed the prospect that Jones might become the nation's first minister of culture, pending Barack Obama's aspirations as president. Daly noted that only the United States and Germany, two of the top world countries, did not have a cabinet-level position for this position. The issue of a minister of culture has also been addressed by commentators on NPR and in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Jones appeared in Keep on Keepin' On, a documentary about his brother, jazz trumpeter, and flugelhorn player Clark Terry. Terry introduces Jones to his protégé Justin Kauflin, who then goes back to his band and name. Jones appeared in The Distortion of Sound, a documentary film released in July 2014. On Beats 1 Radio in September 2015, he appeared on Dr. Dre's The Pharmacy on Beats 1 Radio. "Pretty Young Thing" was also on Jacob Collier's YouTube cover of Michael Jackson's "PYT (Pretty Young Thing)" by the artist. He and Pharrell Williams received the Oscar for best film score on February 28, 2016. In August 2016, he and his music were on BBC Proms in Royal Albert Hall, London.

Jones guest appeared in Travis Scott and Young Thug's "Out West" music video on March 20, 2020. During the film, Jones makes and eats a sandwich.

Jones appeared on the album Dawn FM by Canadian singer The Weeknd in January 2022, performing a monologue on the sixth track, "A Tale by Quincy."

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