We have lost a maestro, a cornerstone of the modern music industry, with the passing of Quincy Jones, who contributed so much to the world of music at large. Quincy Jones did so much for the music world and wore many, many hats. Musician, songwriter, producer, arranger, artist, record label entrepreneur and owner, executive producer for television and film, a magazine publisher, and a humanitarian. Wow. What a life!
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At his 90th birthday celebration in 2023, he was honored by such artists and musicians as George Benson, Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer, Angelique Kidjo, Patti Austin, Ibrahim Maalouf, Sheleah, Siedah Garret, and many, many others. He not only produced, composted, arranged, and recorded his own work, but recorded with such artists, on his records, as Miles Davis, Bill Cosby (the comedian), and as a sideman for such jazz legends as Lionel Hampton, Cannonball Adderley, Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, The Jones Boys with Thad Jones, Jimmy Jones, Eddie Jones, and Jo Jones, Lucky Thompson, Toots Thielemans, Dinah Washington, Willis "Gator" Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Herb Alpert, Benny Bailey, Count Basie Orchestra, Don Elliott, Tony Bennett, Paul Quinichette, Ray Brown, Betty Carter and Ray Bryant, Jimmy Cleveland, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Milt Jackson, Bob James, James Moody, Joe Newman, Terry Gibbs, Julius Watkins, Sonny Stitt, Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, George Benson, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, and Anita O'Day (he collaborated with them on a 1956 Krupa album, "Drummer Man Gene Krupa in Highest Hi Fi".
These are just the jazz artists he worked with. His career extended entirely into the realm of both rhythm & blues, and popular music through his producing, arranging, contributions as a musician/keyboardist/pianist through many, many singles beginning with "Soul Bossa Nova" in 1962 and "Killer Joe" in 1970 plus more. Names in the realm of popular music including rhythm & blues, funk, and more, he worked with are endless. Among them, Brook Benton, Emily Bear, Tony Bennett, Big Maybelle, David Carroll, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Sonny Parker, Sammy Davis Jr., Lesley Gore, Donny Hathaway, Lena Horne, Michael Jackson, James Ingram, Little Richard, Peggy Lee, Terrace Martin, Billy Preston, Amy Winehouse, Barry White, Babyface, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Tamia, Andy Williams, and American gospel quartet, The Winans.
16 studio records, 24 soundtracks, three live records. He is also one of a handful of record producers to have number one hit records in three different decades between the 1960s and the 1980s. He contributed to many, many movie soundtracks as well particularly between the years of 1961 and 1985 and again in 2009. What more can be said about one of if not the best musician on the planet. Rest In Peace, Quincy. Forever in our hearts, and always remembered.
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