Quincy Jones
Sound
🎂 1933-03-14
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between musical genres, producing Lesley Gore's major pop hits of the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie in the same time period. In 1968, Jones became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Eyes of Love" from the film Banning. Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 1967 film In Cold Blood, making him the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year. Jones produced three of popstar Michael Jackson's most successful albums: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia. In 1971, Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the second most Oscar-nominated African American, with seven nominations each. In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.
Cast credits(130)
2005
Self
1971
Dan Webster
1989
Self
2017
2003
Self
2003
Self (archive footage)
1987
Self - Host & Musical Guest
1975
Self
1978
2005
Quincy Jones
1990
Self
1953
1967
Self
2006
2007
Self
2006
Quincy Jones
2019
Self
1997
2004
2005
Self
1995
Quincy Jones
2002
2008
Self
2018
Self - Host
2000
Emerald City Gold Pianist (uncredited)
1978
Self
2017
Self
2022
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2004
Self (archive footage)
2024
Self
2022
Self
2015
Self - Musician
2019
Self
1990
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2022
Himself
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2019
Self (archive footage)
2023
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1985
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2001
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2024
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2017
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2006
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2007
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2018
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2018
2000
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2013
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2007
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1990
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2016
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2021
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2012
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2012
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2020
Himself
2017
Self
2013
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2019
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2002
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2025
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2019
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2002
Self (archive footage)
2003
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1995
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2018
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2018
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1993
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2015
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1986
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2018
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1988
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2003
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2009
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2019
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2017
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1981
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2014
Self (archive footage)
2022
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2009
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1996
Self - Narrator
1994
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2005
Self
2018
Self - Music Arranger / Emerald City Gold Pianist
1978
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2004
1996
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2016
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1984
Self - Conductor
1965
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1999
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1995
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1989
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Self (voice)
2020
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2009
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2017
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2012
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2022
1971
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2008
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2006
Production (25)
Executive Producer
2022
Executive Producer
1990
Executive Producer
1953
Producer
1995
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1995
Producer
1991
Producer
1995
Producer
2023
Producer
1985
Producer
1997
Executive Producer
2005
Producer
1990
Producer
1983
Executive Producer
1995
Producer
2014
Producer
1993
Executive Producer
2000
Executive Producer
2003
Executive Producer
2023
Producer
1995
Executive Producer
2020
Director of Operations
1991
Executive Producer
2005
Executive Producer
1999
Executive Producer
2023
Sound (53)
Music
1977
Music
1972
Songs
2023
Original Music Composer
1985
Songs
1985
Original Music Composer
2005
Original Music Composer
1967
Songs
1967
Original Music Composer
1969
Music Supervisor
1978
Music Arranger
1978
Music
1969
Original Music Composer
1972
Original Music Composer
1965
Original Music Composer
1969
Original Music Composer
1967
Original Music Composer
1967
Original Music Composer
1969
Original Music Composer
2024
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1970
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1972
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1971
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1966
Original Music Composer
1965
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1970
Music
1972
Original Music Composer
1971
Original Music Composer
1967
Original Music Composer
1971
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1965
Original Music Composer
1971
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1968
Original Music Composer
1968
Music
1968
Original Music Composer
1968
Music Producer
2016
Original Music Composer
1967
Original Music Composer
1969
Original Music Composer
1969
Original Music Composer
1968
Original Music Composer
1970
Music
1972
Conductor
1967
Original Music Composer
1967
Music
1968
Music
1972
Original Music Composer
1968
Music
2003
Music
2021
Music
1967
Original Music Composer
1971
Original Music Composer
1961
Original Music Composer
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