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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