Quincy Jones' most lasting achievements were in collaboration with Michael Jackson. They made three landmark albums that changed the landscape of American popular music.
Quincy Jones' most lasting achievements were in collaboration with Michael Jackson. They made three landmark albums that changed the landscape of American popular music.
Jones also was a prolific writer of movie scores and co-produced the film “The Color Purple,” as well as the 1990s television show “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” which launched the career of Will Smith. He had been scheduled to receive an honorary Oscar from Hollywood’s film academy this month.Jones’ circle of friends included some of the best-known figures of the 20th century.
Basie and trumpeter Clark Terry also would be mentors to the young Jones and he won a scholarship to what would become the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He gave it up, however, to go on the road with Lionel Hampton’s band as a teenage trumpet player in the early 1950s. Jazz purists called him a sell-out for making pop music but Jones later told Rolling Stone: “The underlying motivation for any artist, be it Stravinsky or Miles Davis, is to make the kind of music they want and still have everyone buy it.”
His own recordings were just as eclectic, veering from jazz to soul, African to Brazilian. In 1991 his “Back on the Block” record won the Grammy for album of the year and also Grammys in the rap, rhythm and blues, jazz fusion and instrumental categories.
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