The 1994 movie Forrest Gump starred Tom Hanks as a man who randomly encounters legendary figures from 20th-century history: Elvis, John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Abbie Hoffman, John Lennon and ...
Quincy Jones, the multitalented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating ...
He worked with Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson. He sat at the center of the recordings for the 1985 charity effort “We Are The World,” which sold more than twenty million singles. Over his career, ...
Instead, it used an offbeat bit of samba-jazz by Quincy Jones. This was an inspired choice. Jones’s 1962 song “Soul Bossa ...
Jones, who has died at the age of 91, contributed a stunning score to the 1964 Sidney Lumet film about a Harlem Holocaust survivor.
During his seven-decade career, one of the most prolific and revered producers in music history, Jones touched on Jazz, Soul, ...
He played the trumpet with Lionel Hampton, produced albums ('Thriller'), songs ("We Are the World," "It's My Party"), films ('The Color Purple') and TV shows ('Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'), scored movies ...
It's tough to find anyone in the music, television or movie industries who didn't have some connection to Quincy Jones.
Born Quincy Delight Jones Jr., he was the son of a Chicago carpenter and a housewife mother, who sang church songs at home.
Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” ...
Tributes to Quincy Jones has been flooding in after his passing aged 91, with Michael Caine paying tribute to his "celestial twin." ...