Quincy Jones, a titan of American leisure who labored with stars from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson and Will Smith, has died aged 91.
Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, mentioned he died on Sunday evening at his house within the Bel Air part of Los Angeles, surrounded by his household.
“Tonight, with full however damaged hearts, we should share the information of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the household mentioned in an announcement.
“And though that is an unimaginable loss for our household, we have a good time the nice life that he lived and know there’ll by no means be one other like him.”
Jones was arguably probably the most versatile pop cultural determine of the twentieth century, maybe finest recognized for producing the albums Off the Wall, Thriller and Dangerous for Michael Jackson within the Nineteen Eighties, which made the singer the most important pop star of all time. Jones additionally produced music for Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer time and plenty of others.
He was additionally a profitable composer of dozens of movie scores, and had quite a few chart hits beneath his personal identify. Jones was a bandleader in large band jazz, an arranger for jazz stars together with Rely Basie, and a multi-instrumentalist, most proficiently on trumpet and piano. His TV and movie manufacturing firm, based in 1990, had main success with the sitcom The Recent Prince of Bel-Air and different exhibits, and he continued to innovate properly into his 80s, launching Qwest TV in 2017, an on-demand music TV service.
Jones is third solely to Beyoncé and Jay-Z for having probably the most Grammy award nominations of all time – 80 to their 88 every – and is the awards’ third most-garlanded winner, with 28.
