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    Quincy Jones

    1933-2024

    Who Was Quincy Jones?

    Quincy Jones was a decorated record producer, musician, and movie producer who was convinced at an early age to explore music by his teenage friend Ray Charles. He played in various bands through the 1950s, began composing for spelfilm and television in the mid-1960s, and eventually produced over 50 scores. Jones worked with famous musicians such as Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and Celine Dion. One of the most nominated and decorated artists in Grammy Awards history, Jones garnered 80 nominations and 28 wins. He also earned an Emmy Award for scoring the 1977 limited series Roots. Jones died in November 2024 at age 91.

    Quick Facts

    FULL NAME: Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
    BORN: March 14, 1933
    DIED: November 3, 2024
    BIRTHPLACE: Chicago, Illinois
    SPOUSES: Jeri Caldwell (1957-1966), Ulla Andersson (1967-1974), and Peggy Lipton (1974-1990)
    CHILDREN: Jolie, Rachel, Quincy III, Martina, Rashida, Kidada, and Kenya
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    Interview by Molly Murphy for the NEA
    January 10, 2008
    Edited by Don Ball

    FROM CHICAGO TO SEATTLE

    NEA:  When did you first get interested in music?

    Quincy Jones:  I was in Chicago. We wanted to be gangsters because everybody was gangsters. My father worked for the Jones Boys, and we just wanted to be gangsters because everybody had a machine gun and a stogie, and that's what we wanted to do. Everybody in Chicago, the white and black, you know, Dillinger, Capone, the Jones Boys who my father worked for. You follow people that you think have their eye on how to be successful with your life, you know. You can be wrong too, but that's what we all do. And then I was lucky when we went out to Seattle, and we were in our gangster period, and broke into an armory, which was our recreation center. And I walked over, broke in a room and saw a piano and almost closed the door and then went back in and touched that piano. And every cell in my body said you're going to be in mus

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    Quincy Jones on Aretha Franklin: ‘She turned this country upside down’

    More than a half-century ago, Quincy Jones heard Aretha Franklin’s voice for the first time.

    At the time, Franklin was a young, prodigious vocalist singing in gospel caravan tours across the country under the tutelage of her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin. And Jones’ career as a jazz arranger and conductor was taking flight.

    Throughout their illustrious careers, Franklin and Jones collaborated on myriad live productions, but the two only made one album together — 1973’s “Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky).”

    Franklin was hot off a pair of masterful releases, “Young, Gifted and Black” and “Amazing Grace” — an album that transformed gospel music and remains Franklin’s bestselling work — when she teamed up with Jones in spring 1972.

    For five months the two worked and the result is one of the more curious entries in her early canon.

    “Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)” saw Franklin veer awa