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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was an American record producer and composer. During his seven-decade career, he received dozens of accolades, including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
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entertainment · American record producer and musician (1933–2024) · conductor · jazz trumpeter · composer · bandleader · record producer · songwriter · music executive · film producer · television producer · music arranger · also Quincy Jones, Q, Quincy, Quincy Delight Jones Jr, Quincy Jones Jr., Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.
Born 14 March 1933 · Died 3 November 2024 · Q193645
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2026· 17 entries
“with President Obama [will be] to beg for a secretary of arts”
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“He had a baby with my great-grandmother [a slave], and my [maternal] grandmother was born there [on a plantation in Kentucky]. We traced this all the way back to the Laniers, the same family as Tennessee Williams.”
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whig.com: Quincy teacher arrested, charged with aggravated battery and domestic battery
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WDSU: VIDEO REPORT: Saints prepare for joint practice vs. Rams without RB Alvin Kamara and CB Quincy Riley
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Yahoo Finance: TruHeight and Creator Quincy Helsel Return to Denver for the 2nd Annual Quincy's Community Classic
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Muddy River News: Quincy educator and coach John Lumpkin remembered as someone who 'showed up for you'
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Published video “Soul Bossa Nova”.
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Published video “Desafinado”.
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Published video “ソウル・ボサノヴァ”.
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The Guardian: Why catarratto is the Quincy Jones of white wine grapes
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The Guardian: Quincy Jones emailed saying, ‘Hey man, I need to have a word’: how Jacob Collier made In My Room
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Published video “The Shadow Of Your Smile (Love Theme From The Sandpiper)”.
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Published video “Somewhere”.
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Published video “Liberian Girl”.
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Published video “The Lady In My Life”.
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Reported net worth: $400M.
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2025· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2025).
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The Guardian: Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg and Queen Latifah honor Quincy Jones at Oscars
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Released album “Quintessence Oldies Selection”.
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2024· 17 entries
The Guardian: Quincy Jones remembered by Mark Ronson
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Kidada wrote in tribute, saying: "Music says everything words cannot
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The Guardian: Stars lead emotional tributes to Quincy Jones at Oscars Governors awards
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The Guardian: ‘Leave your ego at the door’: from Thriller to Sinatra, Quincy Jones collaborators tell the stories behind his songs
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The Guardian: Quincy Jones and Frank Sinatra: the audacious partnership that rocketed them to another planet
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The Guardian: ‘I named my son after him’: readers on the greatness of Quincy Jones
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The Guardian: Quincy Jones’s music was the soundtrack to so many Black lives – and something we could be proud of | Michelle Kambasha
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The Guardian: Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney and more pay tribute to Quincy Jones
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The Guardian: From Dizzy to Donna to Stevie: how hit-making legend Quincy Jones created superstars and changed pop history
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The Guardian: Quincy Jones, late music industry great, reflects on talented friends and collaborators – video
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The Guardian: Delicate ballads, bold brass and the thrill of Thriller: 10 of Quincy Jones’s greatest productions
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The Guardian: Quincy Jones obituary
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The Guardian: Quincy Jones – a life in pictures
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The Guardian: Quincy Jones: share your tributes and memories
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The Guardian: Quincy Jones, producer and entertainment powerhouse, dies aged 91
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Jones died at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles at the age of 91
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Died 2024-11-03.
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2022· 1 entry
Published video “12 Notes: On Life & Creativity”.
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame (2021).
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2020· 2 entries
Released album “All that Jazz, Vol. 128: Quincy Jones - "Ghana"”.
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Jones appeared in a music video by Travis Scott and Young Thug for the song "Out West"
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2019· 2 entries
Published video “Popsicles with Quincy Jones ft. Lil Nas X”.
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Published video “Can't Stop Thinkin' About You - Eli Teplin x Mateus Asato”.
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2018· 1 entry
Published video “Justin Kauflin - Coming Home”.
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2017· 6 entries
Published video “QuincyJonesVEVO Live Stream”.
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Published video “Jacob Collier performing on HARRY”.
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Published video “Jacob Collier GRAMMY Speech 2017”.
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Published video “Alfredo Rodriguez featuring Ibeyi - Yemaya”.
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Published video “The Phil Collins Big Band (conducted by Quincy Jones) - The Los Endos Suite”.
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Jones and French producer Reza Ackbaraly started Qwest TV, the world's first subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service for jazz and eclectic music from around the world
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2016· 3 entries
Published video “Human Nature - Jacob Collier & Metropole Orkest - BBC Proms (2016)”.
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical (2016).
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And Pharrell Williams presented Ennio Morricone with the Oscar for Best Original Score
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2014· 2 entries
Won Spingarn Medal (2014).
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Released album “Live in Paris - 5-7-9 Mars / 19 Avril 1960”.
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2013· 7 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2013).
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Released album “Soul Bossa Nova”.
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Released album “Complete Recordings 1955-1959”.
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Released album “Jazz (More Than 100 Legendary Recordings 1956 - 1960)”.
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Produced Emily Bear's album Diversity
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Released album “Quincy Jones: Verve Ultimate Cool”.
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Released album “Complete Recordings 1960-1962”.
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2012· 5 entries
Released album “Plays The Hip Hits + Golden Boy”.
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Awarded Global Citizen Awards (2012).
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Released album “Quincy Jones Originals: Songs for Pussycats / Quincy in Rio”.
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Released album “Eight Classic Albums”.
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Released album “Blues Cross Country / If You Go”.
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “BD Music & Cabu Present Quincy Jones”.
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Released album “Icon”.
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2010· 6 entries
Released album “Take 5”.
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Released album “Q: Soul Bossa Nostra”.
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Won National Medal of Arts (2010).
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Released album “The Birth Of A Band - Complete Edition”.
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Jones, along with brand strategist Chris Vance, co-founded Playground Sessions, a NY City-based developer of subscription software that teaches people to play the piano using interactive videos
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Released album “Standards (Great Songs/Great Perfomances)”.
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2009· 4 entries
Jones said, "I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news
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Jones appeared on NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly to discuss his career
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Released album “The Great Wide World Of Quincy Jones: The Studio & Live Sessions”.
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“I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news. For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don”
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded NEA Jazz Masters (2008).
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Awarded California Hall of Fame (2008).
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Jones joined Usher in presenting the Grammy Award for Album of the Year to Herbie Hancock
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “Summer in the City”.
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Released album “Stockholm Sweetnin'”.
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When Jones was asked by NME, he said: "Man, please
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Released album “The Quincy Jones ABC/Mercury Big Band Jazz Sessions”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Swinging the Big Band”.
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Released album “Q Digs Dancers”.
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Released album “Quincy Jones + Harry Arnold + Big Band = Jazz!”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Quincy Jones & the Jones Boys”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “The Original Jam Sessions: 1969”.
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Released album “Love, Q”.
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Jones helped to launch the We Are the Future (WAF) project, which gave children in poor and conflict-ridden areas a chance to live their childhoods and develop a sense of hope
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “This Is How We Feel About "Q" 1956/1981”.
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2002· 5 entries
Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (2002).
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Released album “Ultimate Collection”.
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Released album “Merry Old Man”.
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Released album “I Grandi Del Jazz - Quincy Jones - Body Heat”.
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Made a cameo appearance as himself in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember
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2001· 6 entries
Released album “Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones”.
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Awarded Marian Anderson Award (2001).
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Released album “Back-to-Back”.
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Quincy Jones”.
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Jones became an honorary member of the board of directors of the Jazz Foundation of America
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Jones published his autobiography Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
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2000· 6 entries
Released album “The Very Best Of Quincy Jones”.
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Released album “Straight, No Chaser: The Many Faces of Quincy Jones...”.
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Released album “Quincy Jones's Finest Hour”.
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Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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Won National Humanities Medal (2000).
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Released album “The Magic Collection”.
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1999· 4 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1999).
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Released album “Abstractions”.
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Released album “Backtracks”.
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Released album “The Reel Quincy Jones”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Best of Quincy Jones”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “The Genius of Quincy Jones”.
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded MusiCares Person of the Year (1996).
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Released album “Journey To Next”.
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Released album “Jump for Jones”.
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1995· 7 entries
Released album “Q’s Jook Joint”.
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Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1995).
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Released album “From Q, With Love”.
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The first African American to receive the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
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Released album “Dinah Washington With Quincy Jones”.
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Released album “Watermelon Man”.
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Released album “Quincy Jones”.
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “Quincy Plays for Pussycats”.
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Released album “Quincy's Home Again”.
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Released album “Walk on the Wild Side”.
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Rapper Tupac Shakur criticized Jones for having relationships with white women, prompting Jones's daughter, Rashida, to pen a scathing open letter in response, which was published in The Source
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1993· 1 entry
Jones collaborated with David Salzman to produce the concert An American Reunion, a celebration of Bill Clinton's inauguration as President of the United States
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Gitanes”.
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The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the National Medal of the Arts in 2011, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014, and the posthumous Academy Honorary Award in 2025
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Released album “The Legendary Years Vol. 7”.
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Legend Award (1991).
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Released album “A&M Gold Series”.
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1990· 2 entries
Quincy Jones Productions joined with Time Warner to create Quincy Jones Entertainment (QJE)
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While In the House (on NBC and UPN) aired from 1995 to 1999
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “Back on the Block”.
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Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1989).
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Released album “Gula Matari”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Super Hits”.
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1987· 4 entries
Released album “Ai No Corrida”.
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Released album “Strike Up the Band”.
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Released album “Compact Jazz”.
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Released album “Classics, Volume 3”.
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1986· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Record of the Year for We Are the World (1986).
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Awarded Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award (1986).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance for We Are the World (1986).
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Jones started off Qwest Entertainment to produce theatrical feature films, through Qwest Film and Television
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1985· 2 entries
Jones produced and conducted the charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia
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Released album “Blanchard: New Earth Sonata / Telemann: Suite in A Minor (Overture/Air a L'Italien/Rejouissance)”.
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1984· 3 entries
Released album “The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones: Live!”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Record of the Year for Beat It (1984).
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Released album “The Birth of a Band Vol.2”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “The Best”.
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1981· 1 entry
Released album ““The Dude””.
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for The Wiz (1979).
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1978· 2 entries
Produced the soundtrack for The Wiz, the musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, which starred Michael Jackson and Diana Ross
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Released album “Sounds… And Stuff Like That!!”.
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) for Roots (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “I Heard That!!”.
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1975· 4 entries
Jones founded Qwest Productions, for which he arranged and produced successful albums by Frank Sinatra and others
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Released album “All About Quincy Jones”.
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Released album “Ironside”.
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Released album “Mellow Madness”.
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “Body Heat”.
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Jones developed a life-threatening brain aneurysm, leading to a decision to reduce his workload to spend time with his friends and family
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “You’ve Got It Bad Girl”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Ndeda”.
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “Smackwater Jack”.
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Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “Walking in Space”.
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1968· 1 entry
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 (1967)
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “The Deadly Affair (The Original Sound Track Album)”.
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1964· 2 entries
Released album “Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini”.
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Released album “Golden Boy”.
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1963· 2 entries
Had his first number 1 record with "It's My Party" by Lesley Gore
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Released album “Plays Hip Hits”.
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1962· 1 entry
Released album “Big Band Bossa Nova”.
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1961· 2 entries
Released album “If You Go”.
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Jones was promoted and became the vice-president of Mercury, the first African American to hold the position
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1960· 1 entry
Released album “I Dig Dancers”.
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1959· 3 entries
Released album “Et voilà !”.
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Released album “The Birth of a Band”.
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Released album “The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones”.
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1958· 1 entry
When invited by Princess Grace to arrange a benefit concert at the Monaco Sporting Club
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1957· 3 entries
Released album “Go West, Man!”.
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Released album “Jazz Abroad”.
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Moved to Paris, where he studied composition and theory with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen and performed at the Paris Olympia
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “This Is How I Feel About Jazz”.
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1954· 1 entry
Jones settled in New York, and started writing "for anyone who would pay"
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1953· 2 entries
At age 20, Jones traveled with jazz bandleader Lionel Hampton for a European tour of the Hampton orchestra
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Released album “Swedish American All Stars”.
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1933· 2 entries
Born 1933-03-14.
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The elder of two sons to Sara Frances (née Wells; Later Taylor; 1904–1999), a bank officer and apartment complex manager, and Quincy Delight Jones (1895–1971), a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Charl
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