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Quincy Jones
Member of
Instruments
trumpet
keyboard instrument
Awards
Commander of the Legion of Honour
Marian Anderson Award
Grammy Trustees Award
Grammy Legend Award
MusiCares Person of the Year
National Humanities Medal
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Steiger Award
Paul Acket Award
Library of Congress Living Legend
IMUDB Ranking
9.4/10
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🎧 954,158 listeners
▶ 8,727,196 plays
Wikipedia
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) 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.
Born in Chicago, Jones moved to Seattle with his family after World War II, where he attended the city's university. He then attended what is now the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before producing pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between Frank Sinatra and the jazz artist Count Basie.
Jones produced three of the most successful albums by Michael Jackson: 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. He also composed numerous film scores including for The Pawnbroker (1965), In the Heat of the Night and In Cold Blood (both 1967), The Italian Job (1969), The Wiz (1978), and The Color Purple (1985), three of which earned him four of his nominations to seven Academy Awards. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the miniseries Roots (1977) and received a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical as a producer for the 2016 revival of The Color Purple.
Jones received many honorary awards, including the Grammy Legend Award in 1992, 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. He was also named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time. Jones died at the age of 91 in November 2024.
🤝 Collaborations (108)
Genius ↗MusicBrainz credits combined with Genius song credits from top 15 tracks
Quincy Jones has 108 credited collaborators on IMUDB — 15 featured, 1 producer, 4 bandmates, 14 production & engineering, 21 instrumentalists, 53 other. Active 1933–2024.
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🎵 Top Tracks popularity ranked · Genius
⭐ Known For
Thriller
▶ 941,820
The Dude
▶ 1,408,075
Bad
▶ 1,081,569
You've Got It Bad Girl
▶ 697,581
Big Band Bossa Nova
▶ 1,034,010
Back On The Block
▶ 427,535
Discography scroll for more →
Quintessence Oldies Selection
2025
All that Jazz, Vol. 128: Quincy Jones - "Ghana"
2020
Take 5
2010
Q: Soul Bossa Nostra
2010
The Birth Of A Band - Complete Edition
2010
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