{"id":35855,"date":"2024-11-05T18:33:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/?p=35855"},"modified":"2025-02-01T16:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:48:56","slug":"in-memoriam-quincy-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/2024\/11\/05\/in-memoriam-quincy-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Quincy Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><div class=\"gdc_row\"><div class=\"gdc_column gdc_cthird\"><div class=\"gdc_inner\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Quincy-Jones-3.jpg\" width=\"180\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/center><\/div><\/div><div class=\"gdc_column gdc_ctwo-thirds\"><div class=\"gdc_inner\">On November 3, 2024, the American musician, composer and music producer Quincy Jones died in Los Angeles at the age of 91.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nQuincy Delight Jones Jr. was born on March 14, 1933 in Chicago. He began his career as a jazz trumpeter in his own combo. In 1951, Lionel Hampton hired him as a trumpeter for a tour. After several successful arrangements for Lionel Hampton&#8217;s orchestra, he also wrote arrangements for studio recordings by well-known artists such as Ray Charles, Count Basie, Sarah <\/div><\/div><\/div>Vaughan and Duke Ellington. Dizzy Gillespie hired him as orchestra leader for a tour in 1956 and in 1957 he got a contract with ABC-Paramount for his first own album &#8220;This Is How I Feel About Jazz&#8221;.<br \/>\n<div class=\"gdc_row\"><div class=\"gdc_column gdc_ctwo-thirds\"><div class=\"gdc_inner\">After further studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he worked as a producer for the Barclay Records label, where he worked with Jacques Brel, Henri Salvador and Charles Aznavour, among others. In 1958 he led the orchestra for a gala concert by Frank Sinatra in Monaco and in 1959\/60 he toured Europe with his &#8220;Quincy Jones Big Band&#8221;. In addition to his own compositions for various film scores, Quincy Jones made a name for himself as an arranger and producer for numerous jazz and pop musicians. The Michael Jackson album &#8220;Thriller&#8221;, which he produced in 1982, is still the best-selling music album to this day.<br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"gdc_column gdc_cthird\"><div class=\"gdc_inner\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Quincy-Jones-4.jpg\" width=\"180\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/center><\/div><\/div><\/div>Quincy Jones has received 28 Grammys, an Emmy, a Tony Award, and the Polar Music Prize, among others. In 1995, he received an Honorary Oscar and in 2024 another Honorary Oscar for his lifetime achievement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aUvUHlarb_0?si=PP7jXX_z_HgIXDA_&amp;start=27\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nQuincy Jones live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1996<\/center><\/font><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaughan and Duke Ellington. Dizzy Gillespie hired him as orchestra leader for a tour in 1956 and in 1957 he got a contract with ABC-Paramount for his first own album &#8220;This Is How I Feel About Jazz&#8221;. Quincy Jones has received 28 Grammys, an Emmy, a Tony Award, and the Polar Music Prize, among others. 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