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[Music] Quincy Jones RIP



Man of Harveys

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Jul 9, 2003
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Brighton, UK
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.

 








Beach Hut

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Jul 5, 2003
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Living In a Box
Huge loss to the music industry RIP
 


Man of Harveys

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Jul 9, 2003
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Brighton, UK
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:

 








boik

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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

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Sep 9, 2012
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....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.
 




Albion my Albion

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Feb 6, 2016
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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]

 










DavidinSouthampton

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Jan 3, 2012
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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.
 


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