{"id":122010,"date":"2024-11-04T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T09:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122010"},"modified":"2024-11-04T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T09:09:14","slug":"quincy-jones-dies-music-titan-produced-michael-jacksons-thriller-among-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122010","title":{"rendered":"Quincy Jones dies: Music titan produced Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;Thriller&#8217; among others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Quincy Jones, the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/quincy-jones-state-department-global-music-diplomacy-ad771f888c9b91c0991a583d09f77e24\">multi-talented music titan<\/a><\/span> whose vast <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oscars-governor-awards-quincy-jones-bc6906d90d975870b3405f149699d910\">legacy<\/a><\/span> ranged from producing Michael Jackson\u2019s historic \u201cThriller\u201d album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and hundreds of other recording artists, has died at 91. <\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 publicist, Arnold Robinson, says he died Sunday night at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, surrounded by his family. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones\u2019 passing,\u201d the family said in a statement. \u201cAnd although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/quincy-jones\">Jones<\/a><\/span> rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the very heights of show business, becoming one of the first Black executives to thrive in Hollywood and amassing an <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/we-are-world-greatest-night-netflix-c06beb0f15e3b1c95f355cf55843f93a\">extraordinary musical catalog<\/a><\/span> that includes some of the richest moments of American rhythm and song. For years, it was unlikely to find a music lover who did not own at least one record with his name on it, or a leader in the entertainment industry and beyond who did not have some connection to him.<\/p>\n<p>Jones kept company with presidents and foreign leaders, movie stars and musicians, philanthropists and business leaders. He toured with Count Basie and Lionel Hampton, arranged records for Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, composed the soundtracks for \u201cRoots\u201d and \u201cIn the Heat of the Night,\u201d organized President Bill Clinton\u2019s first inaugural celebration and oversaw the all-star recording of \u201cWe Are the World,\u201d the 1985 charity record for famine relief in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Richie, who co-wrote \u201cWe Are the World\u201d and was among the featured singers, would call Jones \u201cthe master orchestrator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a career which began when records were still played on vinyl at 78 rpm, top honors likely go to his productions with Jackson: \u201cOff the Wall,\u201d \u201cThriller\u201d and \u201cBad\u201d were albums near-universal in their style and appeal. Jones\u2019 versatility and imagination helped set off the explosive talents of Jackson as he transformed from child star to the \u201cKing of Pop.\u201d On such classic tracks as \u201cBillie Jean\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Stop \u2018Til You Get Enough,\u201d Jones and Jackson fashioned a global soundscape out of disco, funk, rock, pop, R&amp;B and jazz and African chants. For \u201cThriller,\u201d some of the most memorable touches originated with Jones, who recruited Eddie Van Halen for a guitar solo on the genre-fusing \u201cBeat It\u201d and brought in Vincent Price for a ghoulish voiceover on the title track.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-taylor-swift-questlove-music-961a22151d0651e22dbfea49e6b11579\">\u201cThriller\u201d<\/a><\/span> sold more than 20 million copies in 1983 alone and has contended with the Eagles\u2019 \u201cGreatest Hits 1971-1975\u201d among others as the best-selling album of all time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf an album doesn\u2019t do well, everyone says \u2018it was the producers fault\u2019; so if it does well, it should be your \u2018fault,\u2019 too,\u201d Jones said in an interview with the Library of Congress in 2016. \u201cThe tracks don\u2019t just all of a sudden appear. The producer has to have the skill, experience and ability to guide the vision to completion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The list of his honors and awards fills 18 pages in his 2001 autobiography \u201cQ\u201d, including 27 Grammys at the time (now 28), an honorary Academy Award (now two) and an Emmy for \u201cRoots.\u201d He also received France\u2019s Legion d\u2019Honneur, the Rudolph Valentino Award from the Republic of Italy and a Kennedy Center tribute for his contributions to American culture. He was the subject of a 1990 documentary, \u201cListen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones\u201d and a 2018 film by daughter Rashida Jones. His memoir made him a best-selling author.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Chicago in 1933, Jones would cite the hymns his mother sang around the house as the first music he could remember. But he looked back sadly on his childhood, once telling Oprah Winfrey that \u201cThere are two kinds of people: those who have nurturing parents or caretakers, and those who don\u2019t. Nothing\u2019s in between.\u201d Jones\u2019 mother suffered from emotional problems and was eventually institutionalized, a loss that made the world seem \u201csenseless\u201d for Quincy. He spent much of his time in Chicago on the streets, with gangs, stealing and fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey nailed my hand to a fence with a switchblade, man,\u201d he told the AP in 2018, showing a scar from his childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Music saved him. As a boy, he learned that a Chicago neighbor owned a piano and he soon played it constantly himself. His father moved to Washington state when Quincy was 10 and his world changed at a neighborhood recreation center. Jones and some friends had broken into the kitchen and helped themselves to lemon meringue pie when Jones noticed a small room nearby with a stage. On the stage was a piano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went up there, paused, stared, and then tinkled on it for a moment,\u201d he wrote in his autobiography. \u201cThat\u2019s where I began to find peace. I was 11. I knew this was it for me. Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within a few years he was playing trumpet and befriending a young blind musician named Ray Charles, who became a lifelong friend. He was gifted enough to win a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out when Hampton invited him to tour with his band. Jones went on to work as a freelance composer, conductor, arranger and producer. As a teen, he backed Billie Holiday. By his mid-20s, he was touring with his own band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the best jazz band on the planet, and yet we were literally starving,\u201d Jones later told Musician magazine. \u201cThat\u2019s when I discovered that there was music, and there was the music business. If I were to survive, I would have to learn the difference between the two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a music executive, he overcame racial barriers by becoming a vice president at Mercury Records in the early \u201960s. In 1971, he became the first Black musical director for the Academy Awards ceremony. The first movie he produced, \u201cThe Color Purple,\u201d received 11 Oscar nominations in 1986. (But, to his great disappointment, no wins). In a partnership with Time Warner, he created Quincy Jones Entertainment, which included the pop-culture magazine Vibe and Qwest Broadcasting. The company was sold for $270 million in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy philosophy as a businessman has always come from the same roots as my personal credo: take talented people on their own terms and treat them fairly and with respect, no matter who they are or where they come from,\u201d Jones wrote in his autobiography.<\/p>\n<p>He was at ease with virtually every form of American music, whether setting Sinatra\u2019s \u201cFly Me to the Moon\u201d to a punchy, swinging rhythm and wistful flute or opening his production of Charles\u2019 soulful \u201cIn the Heat of the Night\u201d with a lusty tenor sax solo. He worked with jazz giants (Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington), rappers (Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J), crooners (Sinatra, Tony Bennett), pop singers (Lesley Gore) and rhythm and blues stars (Chaka Khan, rapper and singer Queen Latifah).<\/p>\n<p>On \u201cWe are the World\u201d alone, performers included Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. He co-wrote hits for Jackson \u2013 \u201cP.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing\u201d \u2013 and Donna Summer \u2013 \u201cLove Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) \u2013 and had songs sampled by Tupac Shakur, Kanye West and other rappers. He even composed the theme song for the sitcom \u201cSanford and Son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones was a facilitator and maker of the stars. He gave Will Smith a key break in the hit TV show \u201cThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,\u201d which Jones produced, and through \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d he introduced Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg to filmgoers. Starting in the 1960s, he composed more than 35 film scores, including for \u201cThe Pawnbroker,\u201d \u201cIn the Heat of the Night\u201d and \u201cIn Cold Blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He called scoring \u201ca multifaceted process, an abstract combination of science and soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 work on the soundtrack for \u201cThe Wiz\u201d led to his partnership with Jackson, who starred in the 1978 movie. In an essay published in Time magazine after Jackson\u2019s death, in 2009, Jones remembered that the singer kept slips of paper on him that contained thoughts by famous thinkers. When Jones asked about the origins of one passage, Jackson answered \u201cSocrates,\u201d but pronounced it \u201cSO-crayts.\u201d Jones corrected him, \u201cMichael, it\u2019s SOCK-ra-tees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the look he gave me then, it just prompted me to say, because I\u2019d been impressed by all the things I saw in him during the rehearsal process, \u2018I would love to take a shot at producing your album,\u2019\u201d Jones recalled. \u201cAnd he went back and told the people at Epic Records, and they said, `No way \u2014 Quincy\u2019s too jazzy.\u2019 Michael was persistent, and he and his managers went back and said, `Quincy\u2019s producing the album.\u2019 And we proceeded to make \u2018Off the Wall.\u2019 Ironically, that was one of the biggest Black-selling albums at the time, and that album saved all the jobs of the people saying I was the wrong guy. That\u2019s the way it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tensions emerged after Jackson\u2019s death. In 2013, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/7adb910007e4d705278bed1b7ecb5660\">Jones sued Jackson\u2019s estate<\/a><\/span>, claiming he was owed millions in royalties and production fees on some of the superstar\u2019s greatest hits. In a 2018 interview with New York magazine, he called Jackson \u201cas Machiavellian as they come\u201d and alleged that he lifted material from others.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was hooked on work and play, and at times suffered for it. He nearly died from a brain aneurysm in 1974 and became deeply depressed in the 1980s after \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d was snubbed by Academy Awards voters; he never received a competitive Oscar. A father of seven children by five mothers, Jones described himself as a \u201cdog\u201d who had countless lovers around the world. He was married three times, his wives including the actor Peggy Lipton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, loving a woman is one of the most natural, blissful, life-enhancing \u2014 and dare I say, religious \u2014 acts in the world,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He was not an activist in his early years, but changed after attending the 1968 funeral of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and later befriending the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Jones was dedicated to philanthropy, saying \u201cthe best and only useful aspect of fame and celebrity is having a platform to help others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His causes included fighting HIV and AIDS, educating children and providing for the poor around the world. He founded the Quincy Jones Listen Up! Foundation to connect young people with music, culture and technology, and said he was driven throughout his life \u201cby a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife is like a dream, the Spanish poet and philosopher Federico Garcia Lorca said,\u201d Jones wrote in his memoir. \u201cMine\u2019s been in Technicolor, with full Dolby sound through THX amplification before they knew what these systems were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with Rashida, Jones is survived by daughters Jolie Jones Levine, Rachel Jones, Martina Jones, Kidada Jones and Kenya Kinski-Jones; son Quincy Jones III; brother Richard Jones and sisters Theresa Frank and Margie Jay.<\/p>\n<h2>____<\/h2>\n<p>AP Entertainment writer Andrew Dalton and former AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen contributed to this report from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/quincy-jones-dead-a9e31c7e39c448d8971519f47a22dd21\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson\u2019s historic \u201cThriller\u201d album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122010\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}