Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers,
bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and
the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps
most famous for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller.
Clarence Bernard Henry focuses on the life, music, career, and legacy of
Jones within the social, cultural, historical, and artistic context of
American, African American, popular, and world music traditions.
Jones's career has spanned over sixty years, generating a substantial
body of work with over five hundred compositions and arrangements. The
author focuses on this material as well as many of Jones's
accomplishments: performing as a young trumpeter in the bands of Lionel
Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, becoming the first African American to hold
an executive position in the competitive white-owned recording
industry, breaking racial barriers as a composer in the Hollywood film
and television industries, producing the best-selling album of all time,
and receiving numerous Grammy Awards.
The author also discusses
many of Jones's compositions, arrangements, and recordings and his
compositional study in France with legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger. In
addition, details are provided about Jones's distinct ability as one of
the most innovative composers and arrangers who incorporates many
different styles of music, techniques, and creative ideas in his
compositions, arrangements, and film scores. He collaborated with an
array of musicians and groups such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington,
Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Clifford
Brown, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, USA for Africa, and many others.
Clarence Bernard Henry shows how Jones has, throughout his career,
wholeheartedly embraced philosophies of globalization and cultural
diversity in his body of work, collaborations, humanitarian projects,
and musical creativity.
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