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Quincy Jones
1933-03-14 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between musical genres, producing Lesley Gore's major pop hits of the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie in the same time period. In 1968, Jones became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Eyes of Love" from the film Banning. 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. Jones produced three of popstar Michael Jackson's most successful albums: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia. In 1971, Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the second most Oscar-nominated African American, with seven nominations each. In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.
Known for
Austin Powers in Goldmember
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Color Purple
Malcolm X
Fantasia 2000
In the Heat of the Night
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
The Italian Job
The Getaway
Sandy Wexler
Saturday Night Live
The Boondocks
In Cold Blood
Ennio
The Color Purple
The Wiz
Movie credits · 177
The Groove Under the Groove
Quincy Jones, Music Man
Diane Warren: Relentless
Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand
Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl
King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones
Don Lewis and The Live Electronic Orchestra
Lola
The Greatest Night in Pop
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
The Color Purple
Thriller 40
They All Came Out to Montreux
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Sidney
Kylie Minogue V The Bee Gees
Tony Bennett: Forget Me Not
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
Ennio
The Weeknd: 103.5 Dawn FM
Cooking On Hot
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
You Don't Own Me
Sergio Mendes in the Key of Joy
Ronnie's
Herb Alpert Is...
Fandango at the Wall
Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Quincy Jones: A Musical Celebration in Paris
David Foster: Off the Record
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Montreux Jazz Festival 2013 - Remember Claude Nobs
The Black Godfather
Devil's Pie: D'Angelo
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
Quincy
TV credits · 36
Bel-Air
Sherman's Showcase
Steve
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Soundbreaking
Quincy Jones: The Many Lives of Q
Empreintes
Legends
The One Show
The Boondocks
The Colbert Report
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
America Beyond the Color Line
Best Week Ever
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sternstunde Kunst
The Rhythm of Life
Classic Albums
MADtv
In the House
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
The Jenny Jones Show
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Life Goes On
Big World Cafe
Sacrée soirée
The Kennedy Center Honors
Roots
Saturday Night Live
Banacek
Great Performances
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Ironside
The Oscars
Science Fiction Film Awards
Vibe
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