QUINCY JONES (1933-2024)
By Mahnuel Muñoz
On November 4, 2024, Quincy Jones died at the age of 91.
Quincy Jones has been a musical titan who deserves the consideration reserved for legends: an eight-decade career as a record producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and film and television producer, with a record 28 Grammy Awards in 80 nominations.
He has been present on the map of American sound from the beginnings of bebop to the consecration of hip hop, and shone with singular intensity in the recording studios as a producer and arranger. The list of artists with whom he worked is a music lover’s planetarium: Count Basie, Ray Charles, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzie Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Michael Jackson, Dean Martin, Nana Mouskouri, Eddie Van Halen, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan and, of course, Frank Sinatra, with whom he collaborated on “It Might As Well Be Swing” (1964), “Sinatra At The Sands” (1966) and “L.A. Is My Lady” (1984).
Quincy was a trumpet player for Billie Holiday and played in Tommy Dorsey‘s orchestra on the historic night in 1956 when Elvis Presley made his television debut, was the first African-American vice president of a major record company (In 1961!), and is the producer of the album best-selling in history, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
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