Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) also known as Q, is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans over 60 years in the entertainment industry with a record 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992.
Famed producer Quincy Jones was born in Chicago, Illinois
and reared in Bremerton, Washington, where he studied the trumpet and worked
locally with the then-unknown pianist-singer Ray Charles. In the early 1950s
Jones studied briefly at the prestigious Schillinger House (now Berklee College
of Music) in Boston. A multifaceted jazz and pop figure, his career began when
he played trumpet and arranged for Lionel Hampton (1951-1953).
Jones then worked as a freelance arranger on many jazz
sessions. working with Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Oscar Pettiford, Cannonball
Adderley, Count Basie, Dinah Washington, and many others. He served as musical
director for Dizzy Gillespie's overseas big-band tour (1956) and recorded his
first album as a leader in the same year. He worked for Barclay Records in Paris (1957-1958) and led
an all-star big band for the European production of Harold Arlen's blues opera,
"Free and Easy" (1959) and continued to compose. Some of his more
successful compositions from this period include “Stockholm Sweetnin’,” “For
Lena and Lennie,” “Jessica’s Day,”and “ Choo Choo Ch’boogie”.
After returning to New York in 1961, Jones became an A&R
director for Mercury Records. In 1964 he was named a vice president at Mercury,
thereby becoming one of the first African Americans to hold a top executive
position at a major American
record label. He composed and arranged for Count Basie, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan and produced his own increasingly pop-oriented records and composed music for several films, including The Pawnbroker (1964), In the Heat of the Night (1967), and In Cold Blood (1967), eventually producing over 50 scores and serving as a trailblazing African American musician in the Hollywood arena.
record label. He composed and arranged for Count Basie, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan and produced his own increasingly pop-oriented records and composed music for several films, including The Pawnbroker (1964), In the Heat of the Night (1967), and In Cold Blood (1967), eventually producing over 50 scores and serving as a trailblazing African American musician in the Hollywood arena.
Jones next worked for the A&M label from 1969 to 1981
(with a brief hiatus as he recovered from a brain aneurysm in 1974) and moved
increasingly away from jazz toward pop music. In 1975, Jones founded Qwest
Productions, for which he arranged and produced hugely successful albums by
Frank Sinatra and other major pop figures. In 1978, he produced the soundtrack
for the musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz, starring Michael
Jackson and Diana Ross. In 1982, Jones produced Jackson's all-time best-selling
album Thriller.
In 1985, Jones used his clout among major American
recording artists to record the much-celebrated anthem "We Are the
World" to raise money for victims of famine in Ethiopia. His work on
behalf of social causes has spanned his career, including the Quincy Jones
Listen Up Foundation, which built more than 100 homes in South Africa in 2001.
The charity aims to connect youths with technology, education, culture and
music and sponsors an intercultural exchange between teens in Los Angeles and
South Africa.
Jones produced the 1985 film The Colour Purple, directed
by Steven Spielberg and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Danny
Glover, as well as the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
(1990-1996), starring Will Smith. He also published the magazines Vibe and
SPIN, and in 1990 he formed Quincy Jones Entertainment (QJE), a co-venture with
Time Warner Inc. Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones was published in 2001.
Throughout the years, Jones worked with a “who’s who” of
figures from all fields of popular music. He was nominated for more than 75
Grammy Awards (winning more than 25) and seven Academy Awards and received an
Emmy Award for the theme music he wrote for the television miniseries Roots
(1977). Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones was published in 2001. He was
named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time
magazine. In 2013 Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In
August 2016, he and his music were featured at the BBC Proms at the Royal
Albert Hall, London. The documentary Quincy (2018) chronicled his life and
career and was directed by his daughter, actress and screenwriter Rashida
Jones, and filmmaker Alan Hicks.
Jones has been married three times. His first marriage
was to Jeri Caldwell from 1957 to 1966; they had one daughter together named
Jolie. Jones was then married to Ulla Andersson, with whom he shares a son,
Quincy, and a daughter, Martina, from 1967 to 1974. Jones' final marriage was
to actress Peggy Lipton. The pair were married from 1974 to 1990, and they have
two daughters, Rashida and Kidada. He also has two daughters from other
relationships.
(Edited mainly from biography.com and Britannica.com)
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For “Quincy Jones - Strike Up The Band - 1959-1961” go here:
https://www.upload.ee/files/11266007/Quincy_Jones1959-1961.rar.html
Disc 1
'THE BIRTH OF A BAND' - 1959
1. THE BIRTH OF A BAND
2. MOANIN'
3. I REMEMBER CLIFFORD
4. ALONG CAME BETTY
5. TICKLETOE
6. HAPPY FACES
7. WHISPER NOT
8. THE GYPSY
9. A CHANGE OF PACE
10. TUXEDO JUNCTION
THE GREAT WIDE WORLD OF QUINCY JONES - 1960
11. LESTER LEAPS IN
12. GHANA
13. CARAVAN
14. EVERYBODY'S BLUES
15. CHEROKEE (Indian Love Song)
16. AIR MAIL SPECIAL
17. THEY SAY IT'S WONDERFUL
18. CHANT OF THE WEED
19. I NEVER HAS SEEN SNOW
20. EESOM
Disc 2
QUINCY JONES AND HIS BAND - I DIG DANCERS - 1961
1. PLEASINGLY PLUMP
2. G'WAN TRAIN
3. MOONGLOW
4. TONE POEM
5. YOU TURNED THE TABLES ON ME
6. CHINESE CHECKERS
7. LOVE IS HERE TO STAY
8. THE MIDNIGHT SUN WILL NEVER SET
9. TROUBLE ON MY MIND
10. A SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE
QUINCY JONES AND HIS ORCHESTRA - AROUND THE WORLD - 1961
11. HOT SAKE (Japan)
12. STRIKE UP THE BAND (U.S.A.)
13. AFRICANA (Africa)
14. MEADOWLANDS (Russia)
15. RICO VACILON (Cuba)
16. UNDER PARIS SKIES (France)
17. MACK THE KNIFE (Germany)
18. MANOLETE DE ESPANA (Spain)
19. BAIA (Brazil)
20. COME BACK TO SORRENTO (Italy)
21. SWEDISH WARMLAND (Sweden)
Renowned musician, performer, writer, arranger and producer, Quincy Jones is one of American music's greatest multi- talented artists.Here we have four of his classic jazz albums in one package for the first time ever, featuring such greats as Zoot Sims, Clark Terry, Lee Morgan, Art Farmer and others.
Quincy Jones is a man who can boast a career that has spanned six decades and is also one of America's greatest multi-talented artists. (Jasmine notes)
Here's a selected discography from a vast amount of Quincy Jones on the web.
Big Band Bossa Nova (1962)***
http://www.mediafire.com/file/oc6o5i8599rcghu/QncJns-BBBN62.zip
Pure Delight (1962)**
https://mega.nz/#!5hZlUL7J!zXz3OdXyKDlaENNLNjC0mbCFA7u8ZN4A55a3nhcr6VY
Golden Boy (1964)**
https://mega.nz/#!8RlEAaxQ!Ds2Gv0CEehz4te9F6SkPz8_u6XYcMLBfCDyoUMcSQig
Quincy’s Got a Brand New Bag (1965)**
https://mega.nz/#!JNkARaLK!kgEQLhl1BAOSNzQXx0k66kRelv7yEy7a7W6DZwPpz_U
Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1965)**
https://mega.nz/#!uc4BEYBI!V9sleAGs9EvLRdkcYZaEDgj7_YoWAXyusm2lO0Pmchs
The Italian Job OST (1969)*
https://mega.nz/#!BaJEVRIB!R8_QuWSJogwLABzzupU2gi3eom_r3w44LIohry5QHDs
Gula Matari (1970) ***
https://yadi.sk/d/GFC2U0T-fVCr7
Smackwater Jack (1971) ***
https://yadi.sk/d/hX2sivv6EH9tN
The Dude (1981)*
https://mega.nz/#!1MdBTRYB!KyhsUADojDpgUDxsdXTtKVe1qIzHZDC3ozD5FAW_SW8
Back On The Block (1989)*
https://mega.nz/#!9I1CCb4T!GbsGGqU9x-Hllj956ur9QRfu3Bsm7VFeYx90UseYp_M
Many thanks to the blogs named below for active links
somvalvulado.blog*
A Walk In The Black Forest **
The Blues That Jazz ***
I found a few albums by Quincy that I didn't have so d/l them from here today, so thank you very much for posting these.
many thanks Bob
;)
good friend
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