However, it did not stop him from pursuing his dreams what made him a great inspiration for the young Quincy. Charles interested him in music arranging. However, he left the school for a music tour with Lionel Hampton, where he was offered a role of the trumpeter, pianist and arranger at only 20 years old. He would further his music education not earlier than in He travelled with Lionel Hampton to Europe and claimed that the European experience changed his views on racism in the US.
He would later settle in New York and work as a freelance arranger on various jazz sessions. Despite his many successful arrangements, his advancing career would often be challenged by racial prejudices. In , he decided to go to study in Paris instead together with a famous French composer Nadia Boulanger.
He later admitted that Paris made him feel free as a musician and a black man. Consequently, Quincy decided to record pop music in order to get out of his debt, however, it resulted harder to do as he initially had thought.
He learnt to apply a very strict approach towards finding new songs, listening to hundreds of demos in order to find few perfect ones. The entire business, he would later say, is about creating a great song. In , he was promoted to vice-president of Mercury, becoming the first African American on a high-level position in a recording company. He decided to try his hand at film music, composing soundtrack for The Pawnbroker in His partnership with Sinatra was one of the most fruitful ones.
Quincy would recall how, when they arrived together with the entire band to Las Vegas, Sinatra had to hire him as his personal bodyguard to let him in to racially segregated casinos. They worked together until Sinatra passed away in Jones met Michael for the first time when he watched the show of the Jackson 5 in Los Angeles, starring a 12 years old future pop superstar.
However, The Wizard of Oz was the very first time when they worked together and Quincy saw him as a kindred spirit. He recalled that Michael was so teachable and humble when he received criticism that he absolutely knew he wanted to work with him. In the same year, he recorded the famous song We are the world, written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, to raise money for victims of famine in Ethiopia. Jones referred Jackson to producer, Teddy Riley. This ended a partnership between two-greats, Jackson and Jones would never collaborate again.
Jones also was a philanthropist, in gathering multiple stars to participate in the song We Are The World to help raise money to help the victims of the Ethopian disaster. In as a result of this partnership, Jones had formed a tapestry with Jackson which was unbreakable it was called, Thriller. The Thriller album sold more than million records world-wide. Quincy Jones in worked on music for the Wiz, this is where he met icon, Michael Jackson. Jackson at the time was looking for a producer, Jones recommended some producers but in the end asked Jackson if he could do it, Jackson said yes.
Suffered a brain aneurysm in the s. As a result, he can no longer play the trumpet; doing so could dislodge the chip in his brain. In , by the request of director Sidney Lumet, Jones composed the music for his movie, The Pawnbroker. This would be the first of many Jones composed for film scores. By the mid's Quincy Jones became the conductor and arranger for Frank Sinatra's orchestra. Jones was working with these artists while holding an executive position at Mercury Records, being one of the very few African Americans at the time to have such a position.
Jones however dropped out when he got the opportunity to tour with Lionel Hampton's band as a trumpeter and conductor. Considered to be one of the greatest minds in music and television history, Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. Jones found his love for music while he was enrolled in grade school at Seattle's Garfield High School, this is also where he had met Ray Charles whom he later worked and became friends with.
Quincy Jones Music Department. Quincy Jones height - How tall is Quincy Jones? Later, they moved in together in California. After living together for several years, the couple separated in as Quincy wanted to marry his longtime partner Peggy. Jones also had a relationship with a woman named Carol Reynolds.
Their short-lived romance bestowed them with a daughter named Rachel Jones. Quincy Jones also dated German actress and model, Nastassja Kinski. Moreover, he dated a relatively younger model, singer, and actress, Naomi Campbell , between and He also dated model Amber Rose in Therefore, Jones shocked everyone when he stated in an interview he had dated Ivanka Trump.
Quincy Jones is an American record producer, musician, composer, and film producer. His birth name is Quincy Delight Jones Jr. When Jones was young, his mother suffered from schizophrenia and was admitted to a mental hospital, which is why his father took divorce from her and remarried. He has five siblings namely, Richard A.
His birth sign is Pisces. He formed a band with his fellow schoolmates and won a scholarship to Berklee College of Music , Boston in Jones suffered from a life-threatening brain aneurysm in and since his friends and family believed that he did not have much time left, they arranged for his memorial service, which he attended himself.
Talking about his profession, Quincy Jones arranged and played trumpet for Lionel Hampton and then became a freelance arranger for jazz sessions. He returned to New York to work as an executive with Mercury Records. By the mids, Jones became proficient in his art and started to produce his own pop records and composed for films and television, which helped African-American music gain more and more popularity in Hollywood.
Jones finally founded his own production company, Qwest Productions in He got an opportunity to arrange and produce albums for veteran artists like Frank Sinatra and other prominent pop artists. The album sold million copies and became the highest-selling album of all time, which made Jones the most powerful record producer in the industry.
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