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    Quincy Jones

    American record producer (–)

    This article is about the record producer. For other people with the same name, see Quincy Jones (disambiguation).

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    Born

    Quincy Delight Jones Jr.


    ()March 14,

    Chicago, Illinois, US

    DiedNovember 3, () (aged&#;91)

    Los Angeles, California, US

    Resting placeHollywood Forever Cemetery
    Occupations
    • Record producer
    • composer
    • arranger
    • conductor
    • musician
    Years&#;active–
    Spouses

    Jeri Caldwell

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    Ulla Andersson

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    Peggy Lipton

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    PartnerNastassja Kinski (–)
    Children7, including Quincy III, Kidada, Rashida, and Kenya
    RelativesRichard A. Jones (half-brother)
    AwardsFull list
    Musical career
    Genres
    Instruments
    DiscographyFull list
    Labels

    Musical artist

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    Interview by Molly Murphy for the NEA
    January 10,
    Edited by Don Ball

    FROM CHICAGO TO SEATTLE

    NEA:  When did you first get interested in music?

    Quincy Jones:  I was in Chicago. We wanted to be gangsters because everybody was gangsters. My father worked for the Jones Boys, and we just wanted to be gangsters because everybody had a machine gun and a stogie, and that's what we wanted to do. Everybody in Chicago, the white and black, you know, Dillinger, Capone, the Jones Boys who my father worked for. You follow people that you think have their eye on how to be successful with your life, you know. You can be wrong too, but that's what we all do. And then I was lucky when we went out to Seattle, and we were in our gangster period, and broke into an armory, which was our recreation center. And I walked over, broke in a room and saw a piano and almost closed the door and then went back in and touched that piano. And every cell in my body said you're going to be in music t

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    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Jones is one of those rare individuals whose career in contemporary music-making spans virtually fyra decades, not only on the calendar itself but also in the almost constant churning of what we loosely call &#;popular music.&#; And the most unique thing about it is that Quincy Jones today fryst vatten quite possibly at the zenith of his creativity and acclaim.

    He is perhaps best known at this sunset of the 80s, as the producer of Michael Jackson&#;s most enormous hits, including the fantastisk &#;Thriller&#; in , as well as arranger producer of the historic &#;We are the World&#; recording session. But Jones was a music man, musician, writer and arranger in actual fact considerably before Michael Jackson&#;s birth.

    Jones&#; career spans the post-swing era of the late 40s to today&#;s high tech, international multi-media hybrids. In the mid-SOs, he was the first popular conductor-arranger to record with a Fender bass, a period when the name Fender was equated only with the