Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as " Q ", is an American record producer and producer. His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry, a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, and 27 Grammys, including the Grammy Legend Award in 1991.
Raised in Seattle, Washington, Jones attended Berklee College of Music. He became famous in 1950 as an arranger and a jazz conductor, before moving on to work in pop and film music. In 1968, Jones and his songwriter partner, Bob Russell, became the first African-American nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, for "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures Banning film. 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. In 1971, he became the first African American to become the director of music and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy. He has been tied to the sound designer Willie D. Burton as the second most nominated African American nominee; each having seven nominations (Denzel Washington has nine nominations).
Jones is the producer, with Michael Jackson, from Jackson's album Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987) as well as the producer and conductor of the charity song "We Are the World" 1985, which raised funds for the victims of devastation in Ethiopia.
In 2013, Jones was inducted into Rock & amp; Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, along with Lou Adler, from the Ahmet Ertegun Award. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time Magazine.
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Jones was born in 1933, on the South Side of Chicago, to Sarah Frances (nÃÆ'Ã… © e Wells; 1903-1999) and Quincy Delight Jones Sr (1895-1971). Elder Jones is a semi-pro baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky. His paternal grandmother was a former slave in Louisville. Jones later discovered that his paternal grandfather was of Welsh ancestry. The Joneses moved to Chicago as part of the Great Migration from the South. Sarah is a bank manager and manager of an apartment complex. Quincy has a younger brother, Lloyd, who later became an engineer for the Seattle TV station KOMO-TV. Lloyd Jones died in 1998. Quincy was introduced to music by his mother, who always sang religious songs, and by his next-door neighbor, Lucy Jackson. When Jones is five or six, Jackson plays the next piano, and he will listen through the wall. Lucy Jackson remembers that after she heard it one day, she could not get it out of the piano if she tried.
When young children, their mothers suffer from schizophrenia and commit to mental institutions. Jones's father divorced and remarried to Elvera Jones, who already had three children of his own: Waymond, who became a friend of the young Quincy; There is; and Katherine. Elvera and Quincy Senior had three children together, after moving to Northwest: Jeanette; Margie; and Richard (who was a judge in Seattle).
In 1943, Jones and his family moved to Bremerton, Washington, where his father got his wartime work at the Puget Sound Navy Shipyard. After the war, the Joneses moved to Seattle, where Jones attended Garfield High School near his home. In high school, Jones developed his skills as a trumpet player and arranger. His classmates include Charles Taylor, who plays saxophone and his mother, Evelyn Bundy, was one of the first community jazz-band leaders in Seattle. Jones and Taylor started playing music together, and at the age of 14, played with the National Reserve band. Jones says he gets more experience with music growing in smaller cities; otherwise he will face too much competition.
At the age of 14, Jones introduced himself to a 16-year-old musician from Florida, Ray Charles, after watching it play at the Black Elks Club. Jones cites Charles as an early inspiration for his own musical career, noting that Charles overcame a defect (glaucomatic blindness) to achieve his musical goals. He has appreciated his father's staunch work ethic by giving him a way to continue, and his loving power by holding families together. Jones says his father has a saying: "As soon as a new task begins, never leave until it's over, be a big or small worker, do well or nothing."
In 1951, Jones was awarded a scholarship to Seattle University, where young Clint Eastwood - also majoring in music there - watched him play in campus bands. After just one semester, Jones moved to a place now called Berklee College of Music, in Boston, with another scholarship. While studying at Berklee, he played at Izzy Ort's Bar & amp; Grille with Bunny Campbell and Preston Sandiford, whom he later called an important musical influence. He left his studies after receiving an offer for a tour as a trumpet player, arranger, and pianist with band leader Lionel Hampton and started his professional career. While Jones is on his way with Hampton, he presents a reward for organizing the song. Jones moved to New York City, where he received a number of freelance commissions that set songs for artists including Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, and Ray Charles, at that time a close friend.
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At the age of 19, Jones traveled with Lionel Hampton jazz leader to Europe - and he said that the European tour with Hampton made him reverse, changing his view of racism in the US.
It gives you some understanding of the past, present, and future. The nearsighted conflict between black and white alone in the United States and put it on another level because you see turmoil between Armenia and Turkey, and Cyprus and Greece, Sweden and Denmark, and Korea and the Japanese. Everyone has this hassle, and you see it is a basic part of human nature, these conflicts. It opened my soul, it opened my mind.
In early 1956, Jones got a temporary job on the CBS Stage Show, later guided by Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey and broadcast live from the famous Studio 50 network, in New York City. On January 28, February 4, 11 and 18, and on March 17 and 24, Jones played the 2nd trumpet in a Studio band that supported 21-year-old Elvis Presley in his first six television appearances, especially in his last three. when he sang "Heartbreak Hotel", which became his first # 1 record, then Billboard's Pop Records this year. Soon after, Jones went on tour again as a trumpeter and music director Dizzy Gillespie Band on a tour of the Middle East and South America sponsored by the United States Information Agency. Upon his return, Jones signed a contract with ABC-Paramount Records and began his recording career as the band's own leader. In 1957, Quincy settled in Paris, where he studied composition and theory with Classical composers Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. He also appeared in Olympia Paris. Jones became music director at Barclay Records, a leading French record company and licensee for Mercury Records in France.
During the 1950s, Jones successfully toured across Europe with a number of jazz orchestras. As director of musical music Harold Arlen Free and Easy , he took to the streets again. The European tour was closed in Paris in February 1960. With musicians from the Arlen show, Jones formed his own big band, which he called "The Jones Boys", with eighteen artists. The band included double bassist Eddie Jones and fellow Trumpet player Reunald Jones. They organize tours to North America and Europe. Although European and American concerts meet enthusiastic audiences and glitzy reviews, concert revenues can not support this big band. Poor budget planning leads to economic disaster; the band broke up and the fall of Jones left in the financial crisis:
We had the best jazz band on the planet, but we were really starving. That's when I found out that there is music , and there is music business . If I survive, I must learn the difference between the two.
Irving Green, head of Mercury Records, helped Jones with personal loans and new jobs as music director of the company's New York division. There he worked with Doug Moody, who founded Mystic Records.
1960's breakthrough and rose to fame
In 1961, Jones was promoted to vice president of Mercury Records, becoming the first African American to hold this executive position. That same year, he turned his attention to the movie scores, another long musical arena closed to African-Americans. At the invitation of director Sidney Lumet, he composed music for The Pawnbroker (1964). This is the first of nearly 40 major movie scores.
Following the success of The Pawnbroker , Jones left Mercury Records and moved to Los Angeles. After composing film scores for Mirage and The Slender Thread in 1965, he was always asked as a composer. His movie credits over the next seven years include Run, Do not Run , The Deadly Affair , In Cold Blood , In Heat of the Night , Mackenna's Gold , The Italian Job , Bob & amp; Carol & amp; Ted & amp; Alice , Cactus Flowers , The Out-Of-Towner , They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! , The Anderson Tapes , $ (Dollars) , and The Getaway . In addition, he composed the "The Streetbeater", which became familiar with the theme music for the television sitcom Sanford and Son, starring Redd Foxx close friend; he also composed themes for other TV shows, including Ironside , Banacek , The Bill Cosby Show , and the game Mark Goodson-Bill Todman game Now You See It .
In the 1960s, Jones worked as an arranger for some of the most important artists of the era, including Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nana Mouskouri, Shirley Horn, Peggy Lee and Dinah Washington. Jones's solo recordings also received praise, including Walking in Space, Sugar Matari, Smackwater Jack, You Have a Bad Girl , Body Heat , Mellow Madness , and I Heard That !!
He has been known for his 1962 song "Soul Bossa Nova", which comes from the album Big Band Bossa Nova . "Soul Bossa Nova" is a theme used for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the Canadian game Definition , Woody Allen Take Money and Run and Series Powers Austin . It was sampled by Canadian hip-hop group Dream Warriors for their song, "My Definition of Boombastic Jazz Style".
Jones produced all four million best-selling singles for Lesley Gore during the early and mid sixties, including "It's My Party" (UK No. 8, USA No. 1), the sequel "Judy's Turn to Cry" (US No. 5), " He was a Fool "(also AS No. 5) in 1963, and" You Do not Own Me "(US No. 2 for four weeks in 1964). He continued to produce for Gore until 1966, including Greenwich/Barry hit "Look of Love" (US No. 27) in 1965.
In 1975, Jones founded Qwest Productions, where he organized and produced a very successful album by Frank Sinatra and other great pop figures. In 1978, he produced the soundtrack for The Wiz, a musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, whose version of the movie stars Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. In 1982, Jones produced Jackson's all-time selling album Thriller.
The 1981 Jones album, The Dude, produced several hit singles, including "Ai No Corrida" (remake songs by Chaz Jankel), "Just Once", and "One Hundred Ways", the latter two showing James Ingram on the main vocals and marks Ingram's first hits; The album also includes "Baby, Come to Me", in which Ingram duets with Patti Austin. In 1985, Jones co-produced and scored for the film adaptation of Steven Spielberg of the Pulitzer award-winning novel, The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. He and Thomas Newman (from Bridge of Spies) are the only composer other than John Williams who has scored the Spielberg movie theater. (Spielberg directs the Twilight Zone: The Movie segment, which is printed by Jerry Goldsmith). Mark Jones debuted as a film producer, The Color Purple went on to receive 11 Oscar nominations later that year. In addition, through this great film, Jones is credited with introducing Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to film audiences around the world.
After the 1985 American Music Awards ceremony, Jones used his influence to attract most of today's major American recording artists to a studio to record the song "We Are the World" to raise money for Ethiopian famine victims. When people admire his ability to create collaborative works, Jones explains that he has recorded a simple sign at the entrance, reading: "Check Your Ego at the Door". He was also quoted as saying: "We do not want to make a record of hunger in the tuxedo", requiring all participants to wear casual wear in the studio.
In 1990, Quincy Jones Productions merged with Time Warner, Inc. to create Quincy Jones Entertainment (QJE). The company signed a 10-picture agreement with Warner Brothers and two series of deals with NBC Productions. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air television program was completed in 1990, but producer In the House (UPN) later rejected the initial concept stage. Jones produced a very successful Belawan Air Prince (find Will Smith), UPN At Home , and FOX Madtv - who ran for 14 seasons. In the early 1990s, Jones started a major ongoing project called "The Evolution of Black Music". Not only did Quincy Jones Entertainment produce the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but also started a weekly talk show with Jones's friend, Reverend Jesse Jackson, as host.
Beginning in the late 1970s, Jones tried to convince Miles Davis to revive the music he recorded on some classic albums of the 1960s, which had been arranged by Gil Evans. Davis always refused, citing the desire not to return to the past. But in 1991, Davis, later suffered pneumonia whose complications would eventually kill him, succumbed and agreed to perform music at a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Albums resulting from recording, Miles & amp; Quincy Live at Montreux , is Davis's last album released; he died a few months later. This is considered an artistic victory.
In 1993, Jones collaborated with David Salzman to produce an extravaganza concert, American Reunion , the celebration of Bill Clinton's inauguration as president of the United States. That same year, Jones joined Salzman and changed his name to Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment (QDE).
In 2001, Jones published his autobiography, T: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones . On July 31, 2007, he partnered with Wizzard Media to launch Quincy Jones Video Podcast. In each episode, Jones shares his knowledge and experience in the music industry. The first episode featured him in the studio, producing "I Knew I Loved You" for Celine Dion. It's featured on Ennio Morricone's tribute album, We All Love Ennio Morricone . Jones is also known for helping produce CD Anita Hall, Send Love , released in 2009.
In recent years Jones began to guide young musicians and produce albums. Jones started in 2013 by producing the album Emily Bear Diversity . After that he produced an album released by artists such as Alfredo RodrÃÆ'guez, Nikki Yanofsky, Andreas Varady, Justin Kauflin, and Grace. He also became Jacob Collier's mentor.
Working with Michael Jackson
While working on The Wiz Movie, Michael Jackson asked Jones to recommend some producers for his upcoming solo album. Jones offered several names but eventually offered to produce the tape itself. Jackson received and the recording, Off the Wall , eventually sold about 20 million copies. This made Jones the most powerful record producer in the industry at the time. The next Jones and Jackson collaboration, Thriller , sold over 110 million copies and became the best-selling album of all time. (The rise of MTV and the emergence of music videos as a promotional tool also contributed to the sales of multimillion-copy and monetary gossip Thriller.) Jones also worked on the album Jackson Bad , which has sold 45 million copies. Poor is the last time the couple works together in the studio. An audio interview with Jones is featured in a 2001 special edition of Off the Wall , Thriller , and Poor . In a 2002 interview, when asked if he would work with Jones again, Jackson suggested he might. But in 2007, when Jones was asked by NME , he said: "Please, man! We've done that I've talked to him about working with him again but I do too much I have 900 products, I am 74 years old. "
Following Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, Jones said:
In October 2013, it was reported by the BBC and The Hollywood Reporter that Jones plans to file a lawsuit against Michael Jackson property for 10 million dollars. Jones said that MJJ Productions, a song company run by real singer and Sony Music Entertainment, unruly re-edited songs to deprive it of royalties and production costs; furthermore, they breached the agreement giving him the right to remix the master record for an album released after Jackson's death in 2009. Quincy songs produced for Jackson are used in the movie, This Is It . Jones reportedly filed a lawsuit against the works of Michael Jackson's Cirque du Soleil, and the 25th edition of the album Bad . Quincy believes he should receive producer credit in the film.
Working with Frank Sinatra
Quincy Jones first worked with Frank Sinatra in 1958 when invited by Princess Grace to organize a charity concert at Monaco Sporting Club. Six years later, Sinatra hired him to organize and perform Sinatra's second album with Count Basie, That Probably Well Be Swing (1964). Jones performed and arranged a live album of singers with Basie Band, Sinatra at the Sands (1966). Jones also became the arranger/conductor when Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, and Johnny Carson performed with Basie orchestra in June 1965 at St. Louis, Missouri, which is beneficial for Dismas House. The fund-raiser is broadcast to theaters across the country and finally released on DVD. Later that year, Jones was the arranger/conductor when Sinatra and Basie appeared on the Hollywood Hollywood TV show on October 16, 1965. Nineteen years later, Sinatra and Jones merged for 1984 L.A. What is my mistress . Quincy was quoted as saying,
Frank Sinatra took me to an entirely new planet. I worked with her until she died in '98. He left me his ring. I never took it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I do not need a passport. I just put my ring on.
Brazilian culture
As an admirer of Brazilian culture, in 2009 Jones announced that he was planning a movie about Brazil's "Carnival", describing it as "one of the most spectacular spiritual events on the planet". The Brazilianians Simone, whom he calls "one of the greatest singers in the world", Ivan Lins, Milton Nascimento, percussionist Paulinho Da Costa, "one of the best in business", has become a close friend and partner in his recent works, recently.
Media appearance
Jones had a brief appearance in a 1990 video for the song The Time "Jerk Out". Jones is a guest actor in the episode of The Boondocks . She appeared with Ray Charles in the music video of their song "One Mint Julep" and also with Ray Charles and Chaka Khan in the music video of their song "I'll Be Good to You". Jones hosted the episode of the long-running NBC sketch comedy Saturday Night Live on February 10, 1990 (during season 15 of SNL). This episode is famous for having 10 musical guests (mostly SNL episodes that have been in the past 40 years in the air): Tevin Campbell, Andrae Crouch, Sandra Crouch, rapper Kool Moe Dee and Big Daddy Kane, Melle Mel, Quincy D III, Siedah Garrett, Al Jarreau, and Take 6, and for Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca" appearance by The SNL Band (performed by Quincy Jones). Jones imitated Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, DC, in a recurring sketch, The Bob Waltman Special . Quincy Jones then produced his own sketch comedy show, FOX's MADtv . It competed with SNL from 1995 to 2009.
Jones appeared in the movie Walt Disney Pictures, Fantasia 2000 , introducing the set pieces of George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue . Two years later he appeared as himself in the Austin Powers movie in Goldmember . On February 10, 2008, Jones joined Usher in the Grammy Award for Album of the Year to Herbie Hancock. On January 6, 2009, Jones appeared on NBC's
In February 2014, Jones appeared on "Keep on Keepin 'On", a documentary about his friend, Clark Terry. In the film, Terry introduced Jones to his protégé, Justin Kauflin, to which Jones later entered his band and label. In July 2014, Jones starred in the documentary, The Distortion of Sound . In September 2015, Jones was a guest at Dr. Dre's The Pharmacy on Beats 1 Radio. She also appeared on YouTube cover of Jacob Jackson from Michael Jackson "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)". On February 28, 2016 he and Pharell Williams presented Ennio Morricone with an Oscar for the best movie score. and in August 2016, he and his music were shown on the BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.
Social activism
Jones's social activism began in 1960 with the support of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jones is one of the founders of the Institute for Black American Music (IBAM), whose activities aim to raise enough 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. Met at the Landmark Arts Center in Los Angeles, these workshops educate and hone the skills of teenagers in the city in music, acting and songwriting. Among the alumni are Alton McClain who has hit songs with Alton McClain and Destiny, and Mark Wilkins, who co-wrote the hit song "Havin 'A Love Attack" with Mandrill, and later became Director of National Promotion for Thrash Mystic Records Punk/Label Recording.
Over the years, Jones has teamed up with Bono from U2 in a number of philanthropic endeavors. He is the founder of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, a non-profit organization that builds more than 100 homes in South Africa and aims to connect young people with technology, education, culture and music. One of the organization's programs is the intercultural exchange between the underprivileged youth of Los Angeles and South Africa. In 2004, Jones helped launch the We Are the Future (WAF) project, which provides children in poor and conflict-affected areas to live their childhoods and develop a sense of hope. This program is 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 large corporations. The project was launched with a concert in Rome, Italy, in front of an audience of half a million people.
Jones supports a number of other charities including NAACP, GLAAD, Peace Games, AmfAR and The Maybach Foundation. Jones serves on the HealthCorps Advisory Board. On July 26, 2007, he announced his support of Hillary Clinton for the presidency. But with Barack Obama's election, Quincy Jones said that his next conversation "with President Obama [will] appeal to the art secretary." This prompted the circulation of petitions on the Internet that asked Obama to create a Cabinet-level position in his government.
In 2001, Jones became an honorary member of the board of directors of The Jazz Foundation of America. He has worked with The Jazz Foundation of America to save homes and lives of old American jazz and blues musicians, including those who survived the Hurricane Katrina. Jones and his friend John Sie, founder of Liberty Starz, work together to create the Global Down Syndrome Foundation. They are inspired by Sya's grandson, Sophia, who has Down syndrome.
Personal life
Jones is a believer in astrology. In the case of religion, in the Vulture interview published in February 2018, he declared that he believed in a God who opposed the love of money but rejected the idea of ​​life after death; he held a special animus for the Catholic Church, believing it was built on the notion of money, "fear, smoke, and murder". He also claimed to have knowledge of the truth of Kennedy's assassination, expressed his belief that Sam Giancana's mafia was responsible, as well as Marlon Brando's sexual relations, with James Baldwin, Richard Pryor, and Marvin Gaye. In the same interview, Jones stated he was dating Ivanka Trump, despite expressing contempt for his father. She later apologized for the interview after a family intervention with her six daughters, blaming the things she said on "vomiting".
Jones can speak a little Persian. He had never learned to drive, citing the car accident he'd experienced at the age of 14 for his reasons.
Pedigree
With the help of writer Alex Haley in 1972 and Mormon researchers in Salt Lake City, Jones discovered that his mother's ancestors included James Lanier, a relative of Sidney Lanier, the poet. Jones said in an interview, "She has a baby with my great-grandmother [slave], and my grandmother was born there [on a plantation in Kentucky].We traced this all the way back to Laniers, the same family as Tennessee Williams." Lanier immigrants are French Huguenot refugees, who have court musicians among their ancestors, Jones attributes some of his musical skills to them. In a BBC interview in 2009, Jones said Haley also helped him find out that his father was part of the Welsh ancestors.
For the 2006 PBS television program African American Lives, Jones tested his DNA, and genealogists researched his family history again. Her DNA reveals she is mostly African but also 34% of European descent, on both sides of her family. Research shows that it has Welsh ancestry, English, French, and Italian, with European ancestors in direct patrilineal lines (Y DNA). Through a direct matrilineal line (mt DNA), he is a descendant of West Africa/Central Africa of Tikar descent, people based in Cameroon today. He also has a descendant of European ancestors, such as Lanier's male ancestor who fought for the Confederacy, making him eligible for the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Among his ancestors was Betty Washington Lewis, sister of President George Washington. Jones is also a direct descendant of Edward I of England; Edward's ancestors included Rurik, Polish, Swiss, and French nobility.
Aneurysms and funerals
In 1974, Jones suffered a life-threatening brain aneurysm, so he decided to reduce his schedule to spend time with his friends and family. Because his family and friends believe that Jones's life is coming to an end, they begin to plan a memorial service for him. He attended his own service with a neurologist by his side, in case his excitement made him overwhelmed. Some entertainers in the service are Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughan, and Sidney Poitier.
Relationships and children
Jones has been married three times. In total, he has seven children with five different women:
- Jeri Caldwell (married 1957 to 1966); they have one daughter, Jolie Levine (nÃÆ' Â © e Jones).
- Ulla Andersson, Swedish actress (married 1967-1974); they have two children, Martina and Quincy Jones III;
- Peggy Lipton, an actress (married from 1974 to 1990); they have two daughters, Kidada and Rashida Jones, both are actresses.
- Carol Reynolds (the couple has a brief affair); they have one daughter, Rachel Jones.
- Nastassja Kinski, actress (couple dating and living together from 1991 to 1995); they have one daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones, born in 1993.
In 1994, rapper Tupac Shakur criticized Jones for having a relationship with a white woman, prompting Jones' daughter Rashida to write a spicy open letter in reply, published in The Source. Rashida's sister, Kidada, developed a romantic relationship with Shakur and has lived with rapper for four months at the time of her death.
Awards and awards
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