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Quincy Jones Pictures & Biography
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Quincy Delight Jones II (born March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African-American record, television and film producer, musician, arranger and songwriter. Jones is especially well known for his work with Michael Jackson as the co-producer of Jackson's most famous albums (Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad).
Jones got his start playing along with the slightly older Ray Charles in the jazz clubs of what is now known as the Pioneer Square district of Seattle, Washington. He got his first break as a trumpeter for the Lionel Hampton Orchestra in 1951. Throughout the 1950s, he became a skilled arranger and led many small bands.
In 1957, he began a career as a record producer at Barclay Records in Paris where he also performed at the famous Paris Olympia.
1960s
In 1960, he was hired by Mercury Records as the first black vice president of a major record label. When jazz became less popular, he was asked to produce some pop singles; his first was the hit It's My Party by Lesley Gore.
In 1962 he wrote Soul Bossa Nova, an easy listening tune which became famous decades later as the Austin Powers Theme.
He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s where he began writing film scores. Jones scored many films, including In Cold Blood, The Pawnbroker, In the Eyes of Love, and Mirage.
He has also composed several television theme songs, for shows such as Ironside (which featured the early use of a synthesizer), and Sanford and Son.
In wrote the score for the 1967 Oscar-winning Sidney Poitier film In the Heat of the Night, and its 1970 sequel They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!.
In 1969, he recorded Walking In Space, an early jazz fusion record.
1970s
During the 1970s Quincy began producing more pop and less jazz. This drew criticism that he was "selling out".
In 1971, he composed the theme to the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie.
In 1977, Sidney Lumet asked Jones to score The Wiz, an updated Wizard of Oz. It was there that he met Michael Jackson and they soon agreed that Jones would produce Jackson's solo albums.
During 1976-1980, Quincy Jones produced 4 albums of Brothers Johnson, all of which got in to Top 20 US.
Jones also produced the "We Are The World" single in the mid 1980s.
In 1989 Jones produced "Back On The Block", which included stars Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, George Benson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan, as well as Big Daddy Kane and other hip-hop stars.
His television production credits include The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and his film production credits include The Color Purple. He has won 26 Grammy Awards and received Kennedy Center Honors in 2001.
Jones is also the owner of VIBE magazine, the most popular hip-hop/R&B monthly magazine in the United States.
Since May 2005 he's been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
Quincy Jones Filmography
Actor
• Peggy Lee - Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee (2004)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
• Fantasia 2000 (2000)
• Of Men and Demons (1993)
• Brother John (1970)
Composer
• We Are the World - The Story Behind the Song (1985)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• The Wiz (1978)
• Dollars (1972)
• The Getaway (1972)
• The New Centurions (1972)
• The Out-of-Towners (1970)
• Cactus Flower (1969)
• MacKenna's Gold (1969)
• The Italian Job (1969)
• For Love of Ivy (1968)
• Enter Laughing (1967)
• In Cold Blood (1967)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Walk, Don't Run (1966)
• Mirage (1965)
• Pawnbroker, The - 30th Aniversary Edition (1965)
• The Slender Thread (1965)
• The Pawnbroker (1965)
Host
• Fantasia 2000 (2000)
Music
• The Anderson Tapes (1972)
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
Narrator
• A Great Day in Harlem (1995)
Producer
• Steel (1997)
• The Color Purple (1985)
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