[Music] Quincy Jones RIP

[Man of Harveys]

From Sinatra to the Italian Job to The Dude to The Wiz to Off The Wall and Thriller. The greatest arranger and producer of all time. How sad but what a legacy to leave behind. An absolute titan.

Quincy Jones, producer and entertainment powerhouse, dies aged 91

Widely and wildly talented musician and industry mogul worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Will Smith and others

www.theguardian.com

 

[AmexRuislip]

Edit....
Please see @Man of Harveys thread

Razzamatazz a great album.
Dude

 

[hart's shirt]

 

[Beach Hut]

Huge loss to the music industry RIP

 

[Man of Harveys]

It says a lot about him that I somehow left out his magnificent work with George Benson: the Give Me The Night album is perfection.

Even out of the recording studio he just nailed it; combined with Cleethorpes’ finest funkateer Rod Temperton…voila:

 

[veuve]

Another soul legend gone.rip

 

[WATFORD zero]

RIP musical legend.

 

[boik]

Sad indeed. There's a really good documentary out there somewhere (probably Netflix) which is well worth watching and traces his whole life and career and not just the pop stuff.

 

[Algernon]

....He's been gone too long.
RIP Quincy Jones, you were pretty damn good at what you did.
Thank you for your musical genius.
Thank you especially for your finest work :your daughter Rashida.

 

[Official Old Man]

Oh dear, where on earth does one begin with his music?

 

[Albion my Albion]

His daughter was Rashida Jones (he also had 5 other daughters) from the American version of "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation."

She has said of her parents' mixed-race marriage: "it was the 1970s and still not that acceptable for them to be together".[23] In his autobiography, her father recalled how he would often find the six-year-old Jones under the covers after bedtime, reading five books at a time with a flashlight.[24] She has said that she grew up a "straight-up nerd" and "had a computer with floppy disks and a dial-up modem before it was cool".[23] Jones displayed musical ability from an early age and can play classical piano.[25] Her mother told Entertainment Tonight in 1990 that Jones was "also a fabulous singer and songwriter".[26]

Rashida Jones - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Pevenseagull]

Good shift.

R.I.P.

 

[Flounce]

RIP

Three greats together

 

[PeterOut]

Some may know some of these stories, but I learnt a lot about the man from this article - https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story - which I saw from a link from the Guardian obituary - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/feb/22/quincy-jones-greatest-ever-moments-ranked
Well worth a read, in my view.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I knew there was much more to him than just being the driving force behind Michael Jackson’s success.
but I didn’t realise just how much more - just in music let alone all the other stuff. Did I read Count Basie’s musical director at the age of 23.