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JONES Quincy
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Personal Data:

Born:	14.03.1933	(Chicago, Illinois, USA, as Quincy Delight Jr.)
Died:	03.11.2024	(pancreatic cancer)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Quincy's Got A Brand New Bag	?	Mercury
2.	Stockholm Sweeting	1955
3.	Jazz Abroad & Roy Haynes	1956
4.	This Is How I Feel About Jazz	21.03.1957
5.	Great Wide World of Quincy Jones	1959
6.	Birth Of A Band	1961
7.	At Newport '61	03.07.1961
8.	The Quintessence & His Orchestra	1962
9.	Plays The Hip Hits	1963
10.	Big Band Bossa Nova	1964	Verve
11.	Quincy Plays For Pussycats & His Orchestra	12/1965
12.	In The Heat Of The Night	1967
13.	In Cold Blood	1967
14.	The Italian Job	1969	Universal
15.	Walking In Space	6/1969	A&M
16.	Gula Matari	1970
17.	Black Requiem	1971
18.	Smackwater Jack	11/1971	A&M			29
19.	Brother John	1972
20.	You've Got It Bad Girl	8/1973	A&M
21.	Body Heat	6/1974	A&M			14
22.	Mellow Madness	22.08.1975	A&M			23
23.	Ironside	9/1975	A&M
24.	I Heard That (2LP)	08.10.1976	A&M
25.	At Basin Street East & Billy Eckstine	11/1976	Philips Sonic
26.	The Wiz	1977
27.	Around The World	1977
28.	Roots: The Saga of an American Family	04.03.1977	A&M			22
29.	Sounds ... And Stuff Like That	30.06.1978	A&M			19
30.	The Dude	4/1981	A&M		19	14
31.	The Best	3/1982	A&M		41
32.	Q	1982
33.	Strike Up The Band	1983
34.	I Dig Dancers	1983
35.	Golden Boy	1984
36.	Quincy's Got A Brand New Bag	1984
37.	The Great Wide World	1985
38.	Dollar	1985
39.	The Color Purple	1986
40.	Classics, Vol. 3	1987	A&M
41.	Back On The Block produced by: Quincy Jones	11/1989	Qwest/Warner Bros		26	9
42.	Listen Up	1991	WEA
43.	Miles David & Quincy Jones & Miles Davis	1991
44.	Handel's Messiah - A Soulful Celebration (And Others)	12/1992	WEA
45.	Miles And Quincy Live At Montreux & Miles Davis	8/1993	Warner Bros
46.	Free and Easy, Live in Sweden, 1960	1995	Candid
47.	Q's Jook Joint	27.11.1995	Qwest/Warner Bros			32
48.	The Best Of Quincy Jones	25.08.1998	A&M
49.	I'm Yours	08.02.1999	Warner Bros
50.	From Q With Love	2/1999	Qwest/Warner Bros			72
51.	Genius Of Quincy Jones	11.05.1999
52.	Blues Cross Country & Peggy Lee	29.06.1999
53.	Backtracks & Herbie Hancock	28.09.1999	Renaissance
54.	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection	25.01.2000	Interscope
55.	Finest Hour	27.06.2000	Verve
56.	Basie & Beyond & Sammy Nestico Orchestra	03.10.2000	Warner Bros
57.	Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits (reissue)	20.11.2000	Mercury
58.	Talkin' Verve	27.03.2001	Verve
59.	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection	08.05.2001	Chronicles
60.	Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones (4CD box set)	16.10.2001	Rhino
61.	Walk On The Wild Side	13.11.2001	Music Deluxe
62.	Ultimate Collection	16.04.2002	Hip-O
63.	Exodus	04.02.2003	Prism
64.	Love, Q	13.01.2004	Hip-O
65.	Original Jam Sessions 1969 & Bill Cosby	22.06.2004	Concord Jazz
66.	Best Of Quincy Jones	08.03.2005	Kala
67.	Mastercuts	24.04.2007	Mastercuts Artists
68.	Forever Gold	19.06.2007	St. Clair
69.	Summer In The City: The Soul Jazz Grooves Of Quincy Jones	28.05.2009	MPS
70.	Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini	09.06.2009	Verve
71.	The Great World Of Quincy Jones: The Studio & Live Sessions	08.01.2010	Lonehill Jazz
72.	Standards	13.07.2010	Verve
73.	Q: Soul Bossa Nostra featuring: Amy Winehouse, Usher, Ludacris, Akon, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, T-Pain, LL Cool J	09.11.2010	Interscope			86
74.	Complete 1960 European Concerts	18.01.2011	Ais
75.	The Q: Treasury Of Recorded Classics	02.03.2011	Allegiance
76.	Icon	05.04.2011	A&M
77.	Soul Bossa Nova	28.06.2011	Universal
78.	Strike Up The Band 1959-1961 (2CD)	21.04.2012	Jasmine
79.	Music from The Adventures & Ray Brown Orchestra	04.09.2012	Varese Fontana
80.	Basie and Beyond credited to: The Quincy Jones-Sammy Nestico Orchestra	04.09.2012	Varese Fontana
81.	The Essential Early Recordings (2CD)	11.12.2012	Primo
82.	Live at Montreux 1991 & Gil Evans Orchestra & Miles Davis	19.03.2013	Eagle Rock
83.	Q80	23.07.2013	Universal Music
84.	Mademoiselle de Paris & Andy Williams	06.08.2013	Boundee
85.	Ai No Corrida: The Best Of Quincy Jones	22.08.2013	Spectrum
86.	The Complete Recordings: 1960-1962	11.02.2014	Enlightenment
87.	7 Classic Albums, Vol. 2	22.04.2014
88.	Soul Bossa Nova & More	02.06.2015	zyx
89.	Gems From The Mercury Years 1959-1962	15.07.2015	Not Now Music
90.	Let's Go to Town & Andy Williams	21.08.2015	Sounds Of Yesteryear
91.	Quincy Jones: Live	29.01.2016	Jazzhouse
92.	At Newport 61 & His Orchestra	09.12.2016
93.	Misty & Sarah Vaughan	27.01.2017

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Killer Joe	4/1970	A&M		74
2.	Money Runner	3/1972	Reprise		57
3.	Soul Saga (Song Of The Buffalo Soldier) / Body Heat	9/1974	A&M
4.	Is It Love That We're Missin' with The Brothers Johnson	10/1975	A&M		70
5.	Midnight Soul Patrol	11/1976	A&M		104
6.	Roots Medley (Motherland / Theme From "Roots")	2/1977	A&M		57
7.	Stuff Like That	6/1978	A&M	34	21
8.	Love, I Never Had It So Good	10/1978	A&M
9.	Ai No Corrida (I-No-Ko-ree-da) & Dune	3/1981	A&M	14	28
10.	Razzamatazz	5/1981	A&M	11
11.	Just Once feat. James Ingram	8/1981	A&M		13
12.	Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me	8/1981		52
13.	One Hundred Ways feat. James Ingram	12/1981	A&M		14
14.	I'll Be Good To You & Chaka Khan & Ray Charles	11/1989	Qwest/Warner Bros	19	18
15.	The Secret Garden & Friends	2/1990	Qwest/Warner Bros	67	31
16.	Tomorrow (A Better You, A Better Me) & Tevin Campbell	4/1990			75
17.	Hallelujah	12/1992	WEA
18.	You Put A Move On My Heart	12/1995			98
19.	Slow Jams	4/1996			68
20.	Stomp	24.06.1996	WEA	28
21.	I'm Yours & Siedah Garrett & El Debarge	16.03.1999	WEA
22.	Stomp (remixes)	11.01.1999	Warner Bros
23.	Something I Cannot Have feat. Catero	12/2000
24.	Soul Bossa Nova / Comin' Home Baby	05.11.2001	Seven Up
25.	Funky Forty Fives Vol 4 (Mary Mary / Boogaloo / Coming & Going) & Roger Simard & Mike Mansfield	23.07.2007	Funky Forty Fives
26.	Funky Forty Fives Vol 6 (Soul Bosse Nova / Green Onions / The Dock Of The Bay) & Peggy Lee	23.07.2007	Funky Forty Fives
27.	Extended Player EP (Money Runner / You're Starting Too Fast / Shaft In America) & Johnny Pate	26.11.2007	Funky Forty Fives
28.	Saudade Vem Correndo / Summer In The City & Stan Getz	10.11.2009	Soul Sound
29.	House Bossa Nova (HJM rework) & Dave Roy Bland	10.03.2010

Bibliography:

Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones (10/2001, Doubleday)

Awards:

1963 Grammy Awards - Best Instrumental Arrangement ("Count Basie: I Can't Stop Loving You")
1969 Grammy Awards - Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group Or Soloist With Large Group (LP "Walking In Space")
1971 Grammy Awards - Best Pop Instrumental Performance (LP "Smackwater Jack")
1973 Grammy Awards - Best Instrumental Arrangement (track "Summer In The City")
1978 Grammy Awards - Best Instrumental Arrangement (track "Main Title (Overture Part One) (The Wiz Original Soundtrack)")
1980 Grammy Awards - Best Instrumental Arrangement ("George Benson: Dinorah, Dinorah")
1981 Grammy Awards

- Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (LP "The Dude")
- Best R&B Performance, Male (track "One Hundred Ways", voc James Ingram)
- Best Arrangement Of An Instrumental Recording ("Velas")
- Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) ("Ai No Corrida")
- Producer Of The Year

1983 Grammy Awards - Producer Of The Year (Non Classical) (& Michael Jackson)
1984 Grammy Awards - Best Arrangement Of An Instrumental (track "Grace (Gymnastics Theme)") (Track from "Official Music Of XXIIIrd Olympiad in Los Angeles")
1989 Grammy Trustees Award
1990 Grammy Awards

- Album Of The Year ("Back On The Block")
- Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group (track "Back On The Block")
- Best Jazz Fusion Performance (track "Birdland")
- Best Arrangement Of An Instrumental (track "Birdland")
- Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) (track "The Places You Find Love", voc. Siedah Garrett & Chaka Khan)
- Best Engineered Recording (Non-Classical) (LP "Back On The Block")
- Producer Of The Year (Non-Classical)

1991 Grammy Legend Award
1993 Grammy Awards - Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance (LP "Miles And Quincy Live At Montreux", & Miles Davis)
1996 MusiCares Man of the Year
1994 Polar Music Prize (Stig Anderson Music Prize Fund of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music)
2001 French Legion of Honor
2001 Grammy Awards - Best Spoken Word Album ("Q: The Autobiography Of Quincy Jones")
2007 Ivor Novello Awards - The Special International Award
2013 Ahmet Ertegun Award
2018 Grammy Awards - Best Music Film ("Quincy")

Various:

produced by LP:

Aretha Franklin: Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) (7/73, Atlantic)
Michael Jackson: Off The Wall (8/79, Epic)
Lena Horne: The Lady And Her Music Live On Broadway (1981, Qwest)
Donna Summer: Donna Summer (7/82, Warner Bros)
Michael Jackson: Thriller (12/82, Epic)
Michael Jackson: E.T. (1984, Epic)
Michael Jackson: Bad (9/1987, Epic)
B.B. King: His Best - The Electric B.B. King (1988, Beat Goes On)

produced by SP:

Lesley Gore: It's My Party (5/63, Mercury)
Michael Jackson: Beat It (4/83, Epic)
USA For Africa: We Are The World (3/85, CBS)
Michael Jackson: The Way You Make Me Feel (11/87, Epic)

appeared on the LP:

Ringo Starr: Live From Montreux (10/93, Rykodisc)

Press References:

Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1993	3		3	Výročí	profile
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1974	25	22.06.1974	41	Albums	album review
1975	39	27.09.1975	14		profile, interview
1976	45	06.11.1976	25	Jazz Albums	album review
1977	17	23.04.1977	20	Singles	single review
1978	28	15.07.1978	51	Singles	single review
1978	39	07.10.1978	37		interview
1981	15	11.04.1981	16	Albums	album review
1982	10	06.03.1982	18	Albums	album review
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1974	0	13.07.1974	11	Albums	album review
1975	0	30.08.1975	38	Information City
1976	0	23.10.1976	38	Information City
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1996	12		84	Recenze - Novinky	album review