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RIP Quincy Jones

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Della9250, Nov 4, 2024.

  1. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

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  2. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I love the two albums he did in the 80s/90s, "Back on the Block" and "Q's Juke Joint" - a great compendium of his musical styles. Hard to pick his greatest work, Sinatra at the Sands, Off the Wall, We Are The World, also produced the film The Color Purple. One of those dudes there really aren't enough adjectives for. He was ground-breaking in so many ways, its almost beside the point to note all the "firsts" he achieved as an African-American. He met the then 16-year-old Ray Charles when he was 14. Man, imagine that!
     
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  3. Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.

    Corky Ramirez up on 94th St. Well-Known Member

    Around 1981 my father bought one of those K-Tel cassette tapes called 'Dancer' (our '79 Pinto station wagon was our first car to have a cassette deck (instead of an 8-track player), and he used to tape the radio and play it in the Pinto ... because he could) and Jones' song 'Ai No Corrida' was on that compilation. I loved that song, even though I had no idea what the title meant or what they were singing about. But to this 6-year-old, it was a banger.

    He was the director for "We Are the World," as well, wasn't he?

    I can't think of anyone else who had the amount of work he did across so many genres. Have a few of his jazz albums from the early 60s.
     
  4. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Wild little Wiki nugget:

    He had two brain surgeries, and after the second was warned to never play the trumpet again, because "if he blew a trumpet in the ways that a trumpet player must, the clip would come free and he would die". He ignored that advice, went on tour in Japan, and one night after playing trumpet had a pain in his head. Doctors said the clip in his brain had nearly come loose, as they'd warned, and Jones never played trumpet again.

    Well that would have been a heckuva way to go out.
     
  5. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    No, that was this guy: RIP Wally Amos

    RIP to both.
     
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  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    He may have been the only person who could pull together all the egos in "We Are The World."
     
  7. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

    Forever my favorite Q composition. What an amazing career, an amazing talent.

     
  8. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    He was no dummy.
     
  9. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    "He blew his brains out"?
     
  10. YMCA B-Baller

    YMCA B-Baller Well-Known Member

    Quincy Jones had some kick-ass TV themes and soundtracks. In addition to "Sanford And Son" he has this classic, here in its full glory ...



    Also responsible for the "In The Heat Of The Night" score and countless other things. A true legend. RIP.
     
  11. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    fixed!
     
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  12. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    The classic Canuckistani game show Definition used one of his songs as it's theme

     
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