Quincy Jones
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It was Quincy who changed Fly me to the moon from a 3/4 waltz to the now accepted and well known bossa nova when he arranged it for Sinatra around 1964
obviously he is well known for his work with M Jackson - Less well know is his work for the Italian Job - Yes thanks to QJ for self preservation society
As I said above QJ was a genius
RIP and thanks for so many memories - I’m just going into a QJ play list mode now
L Richie, M Jackson , D Ross, W Nelson , R Charles , K Rogers , S Wonder, etc etc etc
I knew he had an early musical relationship with Ray, but never knew he played drums with him - Glad we can learnEricTheWeary said:The list of musicians he has played with and/or produced is like a history of American popular music, drumming for Ray Charles at 16, etc, etc,etc. Huge figure. RIP.
But his list of who he worked with is just immense
RIP.
Had no idea he was also into Film and TV - and from the BBC Obituary, learned he was a producer on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air!!
RIP
He was instrumental in so many artists success and development, even up to recently where he mentored Jacob Collier from when he was just a Youtuber posting vocal harmony arrangements, giving him the tools to succeed by himself without actually forcing him down any sort of path. I know opinions on Collier here are mixed but I think it's a great example of a man who even into his 80s and 90s still has the bug for new music and for working with new artists.
Absolute genius. Rest in Peace
What I learned from him about being a Medical Examiner cannot be understated.
RIP Quincy.
Always remember someone telling me that It’s My Party by Lesley Gore was produced by none other that Quincy, which blew my mind.
Quincy of course did the soundtrack for The Italian Job (I guess that gets a mention in Caine's tribute).GoFish said:Can't say enough about the great man. Possibly the greatest name left from the 20th Century history of pop and jazz. Played with Billie Holliday FFS!Side note - was born on the same day as Michael Caine, who left him a wonderful tribute today.RIP Quincy.
Quincy Jones: His brilliance explained in 10 songs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz3w38dn9o
“We went through 800 songs to get to nine," Jones said. "That's not casual." Speaking about Michael Jackson’s Thriller album.
I really liked that recording of his I think it’s from 1969 with him and Bill Cosby .
I know Bill Cosby should not now be mentioned in polite circles but I enjoyed that recording
And also enjoyed his Family Sit Com . Silly man
I still remember Quincy’s records from when I was at School too ,especially Ai no Corrida
& razzamatazz . One of them is on his record The Dude which is a cool piece of Nostalgia
the Michael jackson stuff too with Bruce Swedien I bet both their biographies are great
I think there is a. Rice Swedien book on studio engineering
goldtop said:He called it as he saw it, too:
Speaking to GQ, McCartney revealed how Jones rang him to apologise – and claimed that he had never made the comments in the first place.
“He rang me, and I’m at home on my own,” said McCartney. “And I’d finished work, so I had a drink, and now I’m grooving at home, I’m cooking, I’ve got a little bit of wine going, I’m in a good mood, and I don’t give a shit. So I get a phone call: ‘Is this Mr. McCartney?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Quincy would like to speak with you.'”
“Because he’s always worked through security guys. I said, ‘Hey, Quince!’ ‘Paul, how you doing, man?’ ‘I’m doing great—how are you, you motherfucker!’ I’m just jiving with him. ‘Paul, I didn’t really say that thing—I don’t know what happened, man. I never said that. You know I love you guys!'”
Sir Paul continued: “I said, ‘If you had said that, you know what I would have said? Fuck you, Quincy Jones!'”
“And he laughed. I said, ‘You know I would say to that: Fuck you, Quincy Jones, you fucking crazy motherfucker!’ So actually we just had a laugh. And he was like, ‘Oh, Paul, you know I love you so much.’ ‘Yeah, I know you do, Quince'”.
Although Jones denied making the comments to Vulture, he later issued an apology after receiving a dressing down from his six daughters.
“I love Quincy, even after this. He’s a crazy motherfucker”, McCartney added. “But I respect him, he’s done a lot of very good things.”
Hugely gifted in his field IMHO.