RIP Quincy Jones

[Della9250]

 

[swingline]

A titan, indeed. Also produced Off The Wall

RIP

 

[Sam Mills 51]

If he's not a titan in the music industry, show us a better example.

Twenty-seven Grammys. Seventy-nine nominations. Just phenomenal. Bridged from Sinatra to rap.

Incredible. RIP, good sir and Thank You.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The music of all our lives, especially we olds. RIP to a man to whom no obit can do real justice.

 

[Azrael]

Michael is right.

Not a day of my long life has passed without hearing music Quincy Jones made - or made better.

A giant.

To his rest.

 

[Chef2]

Had no idea that he composed the theme to “Sanford and Son”.

 

[qtlaw]

His first big hit was Lesley Gore’s It’s My Party; from there to Thriller? Oh yeah pulling off We Are World. Greatness. Thanks for the the joy you brought me.

 

[Scout]

A titan, indeed. Also produced Off The Wall

RIP

Off the Wall is significantly better than Thriller.

What happened to Michael Jackson is one of the great losses of my generation. It’s up there with Bo, Bias and Whitney.

 

[da man]

Sinatra loved Q. And vice-versa.

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/frank-sinatra-and-quincy-jones/

 

[Webster]

This was a pretty good episode of Hit Parade about him.

https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2024/06/how-quincy-jones-commanded-pop-authority

 

[Songbird]

Quincy's and Michael's best musical moment.

 

[Scout]

Quincy's and Michael's best musical moment.

Effortless.

I tried to describe to my daughter how he was so effortlessly great.

Putting guitar solos in his songs is like putting ketchup on steak.

The 80s sullied so many musicians.

 

[qtlaw]

This was a pretty good episode of Hit Parade about him.

https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2024/06/how-quincy-jones-commanded-pop-authority

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

 

[DanOregon]

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!

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

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.

 

[playthrough]

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.

 

[Slacker]

made batter

No, that was this guy: RIP Wally Amos

RIP to both.

 

[HanSenSE]

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.

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

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

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

 

[da man]

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

He was no dummy.