RIP Quincy Jones

[revvy]

What a career! What a life!

RIP.

[BertKoor]

There was this anecdote Bruce Swedien told about Quincy Jones. I thought I'd never find back, but here it is.

Quincy and I first worked together with Michael Jackson on the movie The Wiz. We were living together at a hotel in Manhattan, and we would go to Studio A at A&R Studios. We had a big session at noon on Monday to record some of the music with a big 70‑ or 80‑piece orchestra, and we had to leave for the studio at 10am. The night before, Quincy and I had guests at our hotel for dinner, and Quincy still hadn't even started on the orchestration for the opening titles. I was getting a little nervous, but he said not to worry about it. At about four that morning, I woke up and noticed under my door that all the lights in the apartment were blazing. There's Quincy at the dining‑room table with a billion sheets of manuscript paper, and he was writing orchestrations. I said 'Quincy, we've got to leave soon!', but he just said 'Don't worry about it' so I went back to bed.
At about nine o'clock I got up again, and Quincy said to me 'I'm all set'. There wasn't even a piano or a guitar in the apartment; just Quincy and his manuscript paper! Off we go to the studio, and Quincy hands over his score to the copyists. He didn't even want to conduct — he'd hired a conductor because he wanted to be in the control room with me. The conductor gave the down beat, the orchestra played the entire overture, and there was not a single note out of place. It still gives me the chills to think about it!

what kinds of people did he produce besides michael jackson and stevie wonder?

All kinds. If you're really interested, read his wikipedia article or Discogs entry.

[osiris]

I love him even more but too bad most Americans won't see this
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-en ... 41477.html
//Jones, who was 84 at the time, said of Trump: “I used to hang out with him. He’s a crazy motherf***er. Limited mentally – a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can’t stand him. He doesn’t know s***. Someone who knows about real leadership wouldn’t have as many people against him as he does. He’s a f***ing idiot.”
RIP

[Etienne1973]

Mr. Jones' whole work on earth he leaves behind is far bigger than Thriller.

RIP

[osiris]

60 minutes did a piece on him a few months back and showed footage from the We Are The World session and Quincy wasn't so much 'producing' but wrangling all the gigantic egos in the room. He had a mixdown engineer and at times would just sit back and listen. My favorite part was a noise he kept hearing that didn't sound right, and it turned out to be all the jewelry Cyndi Lauper has wearing was jingling and the mic was picking it up. Those are ears.

[elxsound]

Mr. Jones' whole work on earth he leaves behind is far bigger than Thriller.

RIP

*Haven’t watched the video yet, but will soon.

It’s pretty insane how busy he was through the years. This list below breaks things down by role, and then artist for one section, but it’s also worth looking at the dates for all the different projects. The man was seemingly everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jo ... iscography

[raiderpdog]

R.I.P., they don't make them like this anymore.