RIP Quincy Jones

That’s where I got the It’s My Party stuff!

 

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!

 

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.

 

No, that was this guy: RIP Wally Amos

RIP to both.

 

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

 

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

 

He was no dummy.

 

"He blew his brains out"?

 

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.

 

fixed!

 

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