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Music Titan Quincy Jones Has Died Aged 91
Quincy Jones, music legend who worked with Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, dies aged 91 Telegraph 4 NOV 2024 Jones produced Michael Jacksons Thriller album Jones career, which spanned more than 75 years, saw him pick up 28 Grammy Awards the third highest total won by a single person after being nominated 80 times. He was named as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last century by Time magazine and was described by Lionel Richie as the master orchestrator Jones rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to becoming one of the first black executives to thrive in Hollywood, working with young, talented musicians to amass an extraordinary musical catalogue. His fame became such that he was known by the one-letter handle Q Quincy Jones and Naomi Campbell in 2007 Jones became the first African-American to write the score for a major motion picture, The Pawnbroker, in 1964. In 1969, he composed the soundtrack to the hit British film The Italian Job, starring Michael Caine. Across his career he received seven Oscar nominations for best original score and song. Born as Quincy Delight Jones Jr in Chicago in 1933, he played the trumpet as a young boy before moving to Seattle with his family aged 10 ? where he would later meet Ray Charles. By the time he was 18, Jones was studying at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and was touring with Lionel Hampton?s band in a trumpet section. By the start of the 1960s he produced two of Charles? most critically acclaimed albums, The Genius of Ray Charles and Genius + Soul = Jazz. This earned him his first Grammy for his production of I Cant Stop Loving You, performed by Charles. Other artists he worked with included Aretha Franklin, the Brothers Johnson, George Benson and Chaka Khan. Jones kept company with presidents and foreign leaders, movie stars, philanthropists, and business leaders. The legendary producer toured with Count Basie and Lionel Hampton, produced songs for Ella Fitzgerald and organised Bill Clintons first inaugural celebration as US president. It was only a few years later that Jones found himself working with Sinatra, producing It Might as Well Be Swing from 1964 and Sinatra at the Sands in 1966. |
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