Quincy Jones, the US music titan who labored with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and numerous different artists, has died on the age of 91.
Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, says he died on Sunday night time at his dwelling within the Bel Air part of Los Angeles, surrounded by his household.
“Tonight, with full however damaged hearts, we should share the information of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the household mentioned in a press release.
“And though that is an unimaginable loss for our household, we rejoice the nice life that he lived and know there’ll by no means be one other like him.”
Who was Quincy Jones?
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was born in 1933 in Chicago. As a boy, he aspired to be a gangster like these he noticed in his tough neighbourhood.
When he was seven, his household moved to Bremerton in Washington state, the place he pursued a lifetime of petty crime.
Jones mentioned his curiosity in music bloomed in Bremerton, when he and a few pals discovered a piano after sneaking into the neighborhood centre within the segregated wartime housing venture the place they lived.
“Music was the one factor I might management,” Jones wrote in his autobiography.
“It was the one world that provided me freedom … I did not need to seek for solutions. The solutions lay no additional than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, penciled scores. Music made me full, sturdy, fashionable, self-reliant and funky.”
Quincy Jones along with his daughter Rashida Jones and her mom Peggy Lipton. Supply: AAP / Danny Moloshok/AP
Within the late Nineteen Fifties he went on US government-sponsored excursions all over the world, and later led his personal band by means of Europe. Within the early Nineteen Sixties he took a job at Mercury Data in New York, turning into one of many first Black executives at a white-owned report firm.
All through his music profession, which spanned greater than 65 years, there was little or no Jones didn’t do. He was a trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, composer, producer and winner of 27 Grammy Awards.
The individuals Jones labored with would populate a jazz or R&B corridor of fame — Depend Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy Dorsey, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan and Aretha Franklin. However he additionally produced in different genres artists together with Paul Simon, Amy Winehouse, Barbra Streisand, and Donna Summer time.
He’s maybe best-known for his productions with Michael Jackson: Off the Wall, Thriller and Unhealthy had been albums near-universal of their model and attraction.
Jones was married 3 times. His first spouse was his highschool sweetheart Jeri Caldwell with whom he had one daughter; his second spouse was Swedish mannequin Ulla Andersson with whom he had two youngsters, together with Quincy III, who grew to become a hip-hop producer.
His third spouse was “Mod Squad” actress Peggy Lipton, with whom he had two daughters, together with actress Rashida Jones. He had two different youngsters outdoors his marriages, together with one with actress Nastassja Kinski.
