Their work on “Off the Wall,” “Thriller,” and “Bad” set records for commercial success and defined the sound of the 1980s.

The producer, who died this week, was at the height of his powers during a legendary three-album run with Jackson.

Instead, it used an offbeat bit of samba-jazz by Quincy Jones. This was an inspired choice. Jones’s 1962 song “Soul Bossa ...

For decades, he had many of the pop world’s best players on call — and knew how to coax out their sharpest performances.

Quincy Jones was known to generations of fans due to a career that spanned from the radio to the big screen and the small.

Quincy Jones, the polymath hitmaker who ruled the American music industry with a magic touch for well over half a century, ...

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 ...

Born Quincy Delight Jones Jr., he was the son of a Chicago carpenter and a housewife mother, who sang church songs at home.