Quincy Jones, one of many best music producers of all time, has died on the age of 91.
Jones died on Sunday, November 3 at his Los Angeles house, surrounded by household.
“Tonight, with full however damaged hearts, we should share the information of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” his household mentioned in an announcement to Related Press. “And though this can be a horrible loss for our household, we have a good time the good life that he lived, and know there’ll by no means be one other like him.”
Greatest identified for his work with Michael Jackson, Jones held the file for the second-most Grammy wins of any musical artist for years at 28, coming in second behind conductor Georg Solti’s 31, till Beyoncé surpassed them together with her thirty second win in 2023.
Jones’ over 5 a long time of music making resulted in timeless classics with artists together with Jackson, Frank Sinatra, and Miles Davis. Considered one of his best successes of all time is producing Jackson’s Off the Wall and Thriller albums, however Jones was additionally a music prodigy in his personal proper. Jones first turned identified for his skilled trumpet taking part in as a teen and an arranger of jazz music within the Nineteen Fifties. His profession solely skyrocketed from there.
After making a reputation for himself in jazz, Jones turned a file firm govt within the Sixties and labored extensively in TV, scoring music within the Sixties and Seventies. He composed the themes to Ironside, Sanford and Son, and Roots, amongst others. His collaboration with Frank Sinatra continued by way of the Nineteen Fifties and past. His preparations had been featured on 1964’s It May as Properly Be Swing with Rely Basie and the legendary 1966 closed-circuit live performance with Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, and Johnny Carson.
Whereas working with artists like these talked about above in addition to Sarah Vaughan and Peggy Lee, Jones’ solo profession boomed with a slew of Grammy Awards and tens of millions of {dollars} in file gross sales. He was concerned in Civil Rights period advocacy and was a significant supporter of Martin Luther King. Jr.’s Operation Breadbasket.
A close to deadly mind aneurysm made Jones reevaluate how he labored and made him reduce on his schedule to spend extra time along with his household, which included spouse Peggy Lipton, whom he married in 1974. That marriage introduced them daughter Rashida Jones, star of Parks & Rec and different TV classics. He’s father to seven youngsters whole: Rashida, Kidada Jones, Quincy Delight Jones III, Jolie Jones Levine, Martina Jones, Rachel Jones, and Kenya Kinski-Jones. He was married thrice and shares his seven youngsters with 5 totally different girls. Jones’ first spouse was Jeri Caldwell (1957-1966), his second was Ulla Jones (née Andersson, 1967-1974), and his third was Lipton (1974-1990).
A musician, composer, music and TV producer, Jones will at all times be considered one of music’s most well-known names.
