Quincy Jones

Sound · Born 1933-03-14 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between musical genres, producing Lesley Gore's major pop hits of the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie in the same time period. In 1968, Jones became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for…

Filmography

• Fantasia 2000 as Self - Host
• Ennio as Self
• The Greatest Night in Pop as Self (archive footage)
• Ronnie's as Self (voice)
• Quincy Jones: In the Pocket as Self
• The Weeknd: 103.5 Dawn FM as Self (voice)
• Herb Alpert Is... as Self
• Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux as Self
• Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones as Self
• Tony Bennett: Forget Me Not as Self

TV

• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Quincy Jones
• The Boondocks
• Best Week Ever
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• The One Show as Self
• The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
• The Colbert Report
• MADtv as Self
• Ironside
• Life Goes On as Dan Webster