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Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones is known for Producer, composer, arranger.

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Known for: Producer, composer, arranger

About Quincy Jones

During his seven-decade career, he received dozens of accolades, including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before producing pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between Frank Sinatra and the jazz artist Count Basie. Jones produced three of the most successful albums by Michael Jackson: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). He also composed numerous film scores including for The Pawnbroker (1965), In the Heat of the Night and In Cold Blood (both 1967), The Italian Job (1969), The Wiz (1978), and The Color Purple (1985), three of which earned him four of his nominations to seven Academy Awards. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the miniseries Roots (1977) and received a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical as a producer for the 2016 revival of The Color Purple. He was also named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.

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