Michael Jackson needed some guidance. "The first time he came to my home he said to me, ‘I'm getting ready to do my first solo record for Epic Records,'" Quincy Jones recalled in Q, his 2001 ...
Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson had a very successful and comfortable friendship, but Jones was not comfortable with his pet snake, Muscles.
Few artists have legacies so mammoth their very name could be considered synonymous with the music industry, but then again, most musicians are not the prodigious producer Quincy Jones.
In the ’90s, Hip-Hop music really began to take over the music industry, even though it was still dismissed by some older generations as “noise” and “not real music.” However, not everyone in the ...
Quincy Jones is a living legend. At 83 years old, the renowned composer/producer/arranger/conductor is one of the most influential names in recent musical history ...
Best Revival of a Musical (Tony Awards) for The Color Purple and Best Musical (Tony Awards) for The Color Purple. What awards has Quincy Jones won? Quincy Jones has won the Best Revival of a ...
I’ll admit right now that I’m not the world’s greatest appreciator of soul or classic R&B. I’m certainly not against the idea of sitting in the sun with the sound of Ray Charles or Sam Cooke floating ...