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Quincy Jones
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Quincy Jones was born in 1933 in Chicago and grew up in Seattle, where he played the trumpet and learned to arrange. He studied at Berklee in Boston and in 1957 in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. His first film score was The Pawnbroker (1964) by Sidney Lumet. Among those that followed were In the Heat of the Night and In Cold Blood (both 1967) and The Italian Job (1969). Jones brought the sound of the big band and of soul to the Hollywood film. In 1968 he was the first African American with two Oscar nominations in a single year. Later he became best known as a producer, notably of Michael Jackson's Thriller and of the film The Color Purple (1985).
Listening
Walking in Space · Quincy Jones, 1969
Ai No Corrida · Quincy Jones, 1981
Birdland · Quincy Jones, 1989
Main Title: The Pawnbroker · Quincy Jones, 1964
In the Heat of the Night (feat. Ray Charles) · Quincy Jones, 1967
In Cold Blood · Quincy Jones, 1967
Discography
Studio albums
- 1953Swedish American All Stars
- 1956This Is How I Feel About Jazz
- 1957Go West, Man!
- 1957Jazz Abroad
- 1959Et voilà !
- 1959The Birth of a Band
- 1959The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones
- 1960I Dig Dancers
- 1961If You Go
- 1962Big Band Bossa Nova
- 1964Golden Boy
- 1964Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini
- 1965Mirage (soundtrack)
- 1965The Pawnbroker (soundtrack)
- 1965The Slender Thread (soundtrack)
- 1966The Deadly Affair (The Original Sound Track Album)
- 1966Walk, Don't Run (soundtrack)
- 1967Enter Laughing (soundtrack)
- 1967In Cold Blood (soundtrack)
- 1967In the Heat of the Night (soundtrack)
- 1968For Love of Ivy (soundtrack)
- 1968Mackenna's Gold (soundtrack)
- 1969Cactus Flower (soundtrack)
- 1969The Lost Man (soundtrack)
- 1969Walking in Space
- 1970John & Mary (soundtrack)
- 1971Smackwater Jack
- 1971They Call Me Mister Tibbs (soundtrack)
- 1972$ (Music From the Original Motion Picture Sound Track) (soundtrack)
- 1972The Hot Rock (soundtrack)
- 1973You’ve Got It Bad Girl
- 1974Body Heat
- 1975Ironside
- 1975Mellow Madness
- 1976I Heard That!!
- 1977Roots: The Saga of an American Family (soundtrack)
- 1978Sounds… And Stuff Like That!!
- 1981“The Dude”
- 1985Blanchard: New Earth Sonata / Telemann: Suite in A Minor (Overture/Air a L'Italien/Rejouissance)
- 1986The Color Purple (soundtrack)
- 1989Back on the Block
- 1989Gula Matari
- 1994Quincy Plays for Pussycats
- 1994Quincy's Home Again
- 1995Dinah Washington With Quincy Jones
- 1995Q’s Jook Joint
- 1996Jump for Jones
- 1996Pawnbroker / The Deadly Affair (soundtrack)
- 1998In the Heat of the Night / They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (soundtrack)
- 2000The Italian Job (soundtrack)
- 2002Merry Old Man
- 2006Quincy Jones + Harry Arnold + Big Band = Jazz!
- 2007Stockholm Sweetnin'
- 2009The Split (soundtrack)
- 2010Q: Soul Bossa Nostra
- 2010Take 5
- 2010The Birth Of A Band - Complete Edition
- 2017Mackenna's Gold / In Cold Blood (soundtrack)
- 2020All that Jazz, Vol. 128: Quincy Jones - "Ghana"
- 2021Banning (soundtrack)
- 2025Quintessence Oldies Selection
In School of Rock
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- Jazz MapNL Map
- Mixtape 6: Fear of a Black PlanetNL Reader
- Mixtape 7: The 1980sNL Reader
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 7NL Reader
- Magazine: Jazz as a Secret WeaponNL Magazine
Mentioned in other articles
- Contemporary R&B Genre
The beginning lies with Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones; Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis brought Prince's Minneapolis sound to Janet Jackson (Control, 1986).