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Music Department. Producer. Composer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:09. Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres (2022) 32 Videos. 99+ Photos. Considered to be one of the greatest minds in music and television history, Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. was born on March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois.
Apr 26, 2024 · Quincy Jones, American musical performer, producer, arranger, and composer whose work encompasses virtually all forms of popular music. He was perhaps best known for producing the all-time best-selling album, Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1982), and the television series The French Prince of Bel-Air (1990–96).
Jun 22, 2005 · Quincy Jones is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and film producer. His career spans over 60 years in the entertainment industry with a record 80 Grammy Award...
May 27, 2013 · Legendary music producer, arranger, composer and media mogul Quincy Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on May 18. In 2001, Fresh Air spoke with him about his career and...
Quincy Jones | Songwriters Hall of Fame. Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award. 1989. Quincy Jones is one of those rare individuals whose career in contemporary music-making spans virtually four decades, not only on the calendar itself but also in the almost constant churning of what we loosely call “popular music.”
Mar 22, 2024 · Quincy Delight Jones Jr., 27-year-old musician and conductor, with his Big Band in Vienna, Austria. 1960. (Getty) By 1956, Quincy Jones was performing as a trumpeter and music director with the Dizzy Gillespie band on a State Department-sponsored tour of the Middle East and South America.
Quincy Jones’s enormous success in the 1980s was the culmination of an extraordinary career. A classically trained musician who grew up in Seattle, Washington, he was a gospel singer at age 12, a jazz arranger in New York City in his early 20s, and musical director of Barclay Records in France soon.
