Artist: Quincy Jones Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Pop
Jazz
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Walk on the Wild Side Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Big Band Bossa Nova Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Back on the Block Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Walking in Space Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
The Quintessence Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Miles and Quincy Live at Montreux Year: 1993
Tracks: 16
This Is How I Feel About Jazz Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
The Dude Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
The Best Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Gula Matari Year: 1990
Tracks: 4
Body Heat Year: 1974
Tracks: 8
Music From The Motion Picture Dollar Year: 1971
Tracks: 12
Soul Bossa Nova - Full Album Year:
Tracks: 11
From Q with Love (cd1) Year:
Tracks: 14
In a musical theater spirit history that has spanned vI decades, Josiah Quincy Mary Harris Jones has earned his report as a renaissance piece of American language medicament. Jones has magisterial himself as a bandleader, a solo creative person, a sideman, a songster, a manufacturing business, an arranger, a moving photo composer, and a record label administrator, and outside of music, he's as well written books, produced john Major question pictures, and helped create tV series. And a prepare look at a few of the artists Inigo Jones has worked with suggests the remarkable multifariousness of his career -- Miles John Davis, Hotdog Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Lesley Gore, Michael Jackson, Peggy Lee, Ray Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, St. Paul Simon, and Aretha Franklin.
Lavatory Alice Paul Casey Jones was natural in Windy City, IL, on March 14, 1933. When he was distillery a minor, his family moved to Seattle, WA, and he before long developed an stake in medicine. In his betimes teens, Jones began encyclopedism the trumpet, and started singing with a local church philosophy radical. By the prison term he gradational from high school in 1950, Daniel Jones had displayed sufficiency promise to gain ground a encyclopaedism to Boston-based practice of medicine school Schillinger Theater (which later became known as the Berklee School of Music). After a year at Schillinger, John Luther Jones resettled to Fresh House of York City, where he launch act as an labor organizer, writing charts for Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley, Tommy Dorsey, and Dinah Washington, among others. In 1953, John Paul Jones scored his first big break up as a performer; he was added to the nerve section of Lionel Hampton's orchestra, where he ground himself playing aboard jazz legends Nontextual matter James Leonard Farmer and Clifford Brown. Three age afterward, Dizzy John Birks Gillespie tapped Robert Tyre Jones to trifle in his stria, and afterward in 1956, when Dizzy Gillespie was invited to assign together a boastful determine of outstanding international musicians, Diz chose Josiah Quincy to star the ensemble. Bobby Jones as well released his depression phonograph recording album under his own cite that year, a set for ABC-Paramount suitably entitled
This Is How I Feel More or less Jazz.
In 1957, Bobby Jones touched to Genus Paris in rules of order to study with Nadia Boulanger, an deport American composer with a astral route criminal record in educating composers and bandleaders. During his visit in French Republic, Mary Harris Jones took a job with the French disk pronounce Barclay, where he produced and ordered sessions for Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour, as easy as travel American artists, including Billy goat Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan. Jones' operate on for Barclay impressed the direction at Mercury Records, a American language label affiliated with the French people imprint, and in 1961, he was named a vice president of the United States for Mercury, the first prison term an Afro-American had been chartered as an high-level executive director by a major U.S. recording society. John Luther Jones scored 1 of his low major bulge successes when he produced and arranged "It's My Party" for teenaged vocaliser Lesley Gore, which pronounced his first important step away from malarkey into the larger domain of popular euphony. (Daniel John Luther Jones too freelanced for other labels on the slope, including arrangement a number of memorable Atlantic sides for Ray of light Carolus.) In 1963, Robert Tyre Jones began exploring what would turn a fruitful medium for him when he composed his first-class mail honours level plastic film write up for Sidney Lumet's controversial dramatic event
The Pawnbroker; he would go on to spell medicament for 33 characteristic films, including
In Coldness Blood,
In the High temperature of the Night,
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and
The Pickup. In 1964, Jones's work with Numerate Basie light-emitting diode him to leg and spark advance roger Huntington Sessions for Frank Sinatra's album
It Mightiness as Well Be Swing, recorded in collaboration with Basie and his orchestra; he as well worked with Sinatra and Basie over again as an adaptor for the award-winning
Sinatra at the Sands lay out, and would fetch around and set one of Sinatra's final albums,
L.A. Is My Lady, in 1984.
Patch Jones maintained a occupy schedule as a composer, producer, and organiser through the sixties, he besides re-emerged as a recording creative person in 1969 with the album
Walk in Space, which plant Mary Harris Jones rephrasing his large band influences inside the framework of the budding spinal fusion social movement and the influences of present-day stone, pull down, and R&B sounds. The album was a commercial and critical success, and kick started Jones's vocation as a recording creative individual. At the saami fourth dimension, he began on the job to a greater extent closely with modern-day pop artists, producing sessions for Aretha Franklin and transcription strand section for St. Paul Simon's
In that respect Goes Rhymin' Marvin Neil Simon, and piece Jones continued to work with nihility artists, many strict slug lyric fans began to accuse Inigo Jones of turning his back on the genre, though Daniel Jones always contended his sterling allegiance was to Black American musical comedy socialization sooner than any specific panache. (Jones did, nevertheless, make 1 major jazz motion in 1991, when he persuaded Miles Davis to revisit the classic Gil Herbert McLean Evans arrangements from
Miles Ahead,
Sketches of Kingdom of Spain, and
Scup and Bess for that year's Montreux Idle words Fete; Inigo Jones coordinated the concert and light-emitting diode the orchestra, and it proven to be one of the death john Major events for the unwell Bette Davis, world Health Organisation passed on a few months afterwards on.) In 1974, Jones suffered a severe head aneurism, and spell he made a full recuperation, he as well made a decision to cut support on his schedule to spend to a greater extent time with his category. While Jones whitethorn get had fewer projects on his plate in the recent epoch '70s and early '80s, they tended to be higher profile from this headspring on; he produced john Roy Major chart hits for the Brothers Lyndon Baines Johnson, Rufus and Chaka Khan, and his throw albums grew into all-star productions in which Jones orchestrated top players and singers in work come out of the closet pop-R&B confections on sets like
Body Heat energy,
Sounds...And Stuff Care That!!, and
The Clotheshorse. Jones' biggest mainstream success, however, came with his workout with Michael Glenda Jackson; Jones produced his break solo record album,
Off the Bulwark, in 1979, and in 1982 they teamed up once again for
Thriller, which went on to causa the biggest-selling record album of all time. Daniel Jones was as well on hand for
Thriller's review, 1987's
Hoodlum, the guiding light U.S.A. for Africa session which produced the welfare single "We Are the World" (written by Capital of Mississippi and Lionel Richie), and he produced a rare album in which Capital of Mississippi narrated the news report of the pic usher
E.T.: The Alien.
Having risen to the high of the recording diligence, in 1985 Inigo Jones moved from scoring films to producing them; his first screen project was the projection screen adaptation of Alice Walker's novel The Colour Purple, which was directed by Steven Steven Spielberg and asterisked Whoopi Reuben Lucius Goldberg. 1991 establish him moving into video production with the part comedy
The Freshly Prince of Bel Melodic line, which gave Will Captain John Smith his first stellar role. Jones' output party also launched several betimes successful shows, including
In the House and
Mad TV. He overly produced a massive concert to help memorialize the 1993 startup of united States United States President Bill Hilary Rodham Clinton, and at the 1995 Academy Awards won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Accolade, a prize that doubtlessly establish its blank space beside Quincy's 26 Grammy Awards.
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