He was both the wizard behind the curtain and a gifted artist in his own right.
LOS ANGELES – Quincy Jones, a major influence on American music in his work with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and who then reshaped pop music by collaborating with Michael Jackson, died on Nov 3 at the age of 91.
There was very little he did not do. He was a trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, composer and producer. President Barack Obama awards the 2010 National Medal of Arts to American musician Quincy Jones on March 2, 2011. PHOTO: AFPHis circle of friends included some of the best known figures of the 20th century. He dined with Pablo Picasso, met Pope John Paul II, helped Nelson Mandela celebrate his 90th birthday and once retreated to Marlon Brando’s South Pacific island to recover from a breakdown.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr was born in Chicago on March 14, 1933, in Chicago, the son of Mr Quincy Delight Jones, a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter, and Ms Sarah Frances, a bank officer and apartment complex manager.He was seven when his mother was taken to a mental institution. His father remarried and moved the family to Bremerton in Washington state, where as a teen he pursued a life of petty crime.
Basie and trumpeter Clark Terry would also be mentors to the young Jones, and he won a scholarship to what would become the Berklee School of Music in Boston. He gave it up, however, to go on the road with Lionel Hampton’s band as a teenage trumpet player in the early 1950s.“Music was the one thing I could control,” Jones wrote in his autobiography. “It was the one world that offered me freedom... I didn’t have to search for answers.
Jazz purists called him a sell-out for making pop music, but Jones later told Rolling Stone: “The underlying motivation for any artist, be it Stravinsky or Miles Davis, is to make the kind of music they want and still have everyone buy it.”At Mercury, Jones got his first movie-scoring job, Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker. He went on to score nearly 40 films, including In The Heat Of The Night, In Cold Blood, Mackenna’s Gold, The Wiz and part of the television mini-series Roots.
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