A renowned American music giant Quincy Jones has died on Sunday, November 3, 2024, in California at the age of 91.
Without mentioning the cause of his death, Arnold Robinson, the spokeswoman of the deceased, confirmed Quincy Jones died from his residence in Bel Air.
Jones started his career as a jazz trumpeter and was later in great demand as an arranger writing for the big bands of Count Basie and others. He later became a film music composer and a record producer.
In the 1950s, the deceased took social and professional mobility to a new level in Black popular art, eventually creating the conditions for a great deal of music to flow between styles, outlets, and markets and making the best-selling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
Mr. Jones’s music has been sampled and reused hundreds of times, through all stages of hip-hop and for the theme to the “Austin Powers” films (his “Soul Bossa Nova,” from 1962).
He has the third-highest total of Grammy Awards won by a single person—he was nominated 80 times and won 28.
The late was given honorary degrees by Harvard, Princeton, Juilliard, the New England Conservatory, the Berklee School of Music, and many other institutions, as well as a National Medal of Arts and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master fellowship.
