Quincy Jones Famous Jazz Musician and Conductor, His Career Spanned Five Decades

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FEMUSINDO.com - Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr., with his famous name Quincy Jones, was born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on March 14, 1933.

He is an American jazz musician whose career spanned five decades in the entertainment industry.

Quincy Jones, who has another name Leigh Warren, his music genres are rhythm and blues, funk, soul, big band, swing, bossa nova, jazz, hip hop, rock and roll.

He has been nominated for 79 Grammy Awards, winning 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991.

Best in the 1950s

Jones rose to fame in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before moving on to pop music and film scores.

He moved effortlessly between genres, producing hit pop recordings for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s.

He also arranged and conducted several collaborations between jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie.

Nominated for an Academy Award

In 1968, Jones was 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.

This made him the first African-American to be nominated twice in the same year. 

Album Production and Charity Songs

In a few years, Jones produced three of pop star 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 money for victims of the Ethiopian famine.

In 1971, Jones became the first African-American to serve as both music director and conductor of the Academy Awards.

Most Influential Jazz Musicians of the 20th Century

In 1995, he became 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 in the Ahmet Ertegun Award category.

Not only that, he was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time. (*)