Biography

In a musical career that has spanned six decades, Quincy Jones has earned his reputation as a renaissance man of American music. Jones has distinguished himself as a bandleader, a solo artist, a sideman, a songwriter, a producer, an arranger, a film composer, and a record label executive, and outside of music, he's also written books, produced major motion pictures, and helped create television series. And a quick look at a few of the artists Jones has worked with suggests the remarkable diversity of his career: Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Lesley Gore, Michael Jackson, Peggy Lee, Ray Charles, Paul Simon, and Aretha Franklin. ~ Mark Deming

Top Tracks

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• (matthew Herbert's) Technically Amateur Mix

• Ai No Corrida

• Along Came Betty

• Baby, Come To Me

• Betcha' Wouldn't Hurt Me

• Birdland

• Birth Of A Band

• Blues For Pablo

• Body Heat

• Boogie Stop Shuffle

• Boplicity

• Dancin' Pants

• Django

• Evening In Paris

• Everything

• Everything Must Change

• Get The Funk Out Of My Face

• Glimmer

• Groovy Gravy

• Guitar Blues Odyssey: From Roots To Fruits

• Gula Matari

• Hikky Burr

• Hikky-burr

• Human Nature

• I Could Write A Book

• I Remember Clifford

• If I Ever Lose This Heaven

• I'll Be Good To You

• Ironside

• Is It Love That We're Missing?

• Jazz Corner Of The World (introduction To Birdland)

• Jive Den

• Just Once

• Killer Joe

• Kings Road Blues

• Listen (what It Is)

• Lullaby Of Birdland

• Mau Mau

• Mellow Madness

• Moanin'

• Moody's Mood For Love

• Oh Happy Day

• Quintessence

• Sanford & Son Theme (the Streetbeater)

• Sermonette

• Smackwater Jack

• Solitude

• Somethin' Special

• Something About You

• Soul Bossa Nova

• Soul Saga (song Of The Buffalo Soldier)

• Stardust

• Stomp

• Strawberry Letter 23

• Stuff Like That

• Summer In The City

• Summertime

• Swahili

• Take Five

• Tell Me A Bedtime Story

• The "in" Crowd

• The Dirty Dozens

• The Secret Garden (sweet Seduction Suite)

• They Say It's Wonderful

• Tuma

• Tuxedo Junction

• Up In Quincy's Room

• Walkin'

• Watermelon Man

• What's Going On

• Witching Hour

• You've Got It Bad Girl

Discography

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• Q: Soul Bossa Nostra

  Interscope / Owest Records

  2010

• The New Mixes, Vol. 1: Quincy Jones and Bill Cosby

  Concord Jazz

  2004

• Inner Voices

  Rhino

  1991

• Q.D. III Soundlab

  Qwest

  1991

• Strike Up the Band

  Polygram

  1988

• Quincy Jones All Stars

  Esquire

  1986

• I Heard That!

  A&M

  1976

• We Had a Ball

  Sonic

  1976

• You've Got It Bad Girl

  Verve

  1973

• Mode

  ABC Music

  1973

• Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini

  Verve

  1964

• Big Band Bossa Nova

  Verve

  1964

• Bossa Nova

  1962

• Live at Newport

  1961

• Around the World

  1961

• I Dig Dancers

  UNI Jazz / Universal Distribution / Universal Jazz

  1960

• Home Again

  Metronome

  1958

• Go West, Man!

  Chess / GRP

  1957

• The Swingin' Miss "D"

  Emarcy

  1956

• Quincy Jones with the Swedish/U.S. All Stars

  1953