Quincy Jones is dead to me

He was a true legend with an amazing career. RIP Quincy

I remember that controversial late in life interview where he spilled the shit about everyone

RIP, Quincy. Thanks for all of the Missoni sweaters and sorry about trashy OP, You deserved a far more dignified headline.

Masterpiece.

One of his productions.

I didn't realize he was 91 years old. RIP. He gave the world so much great music that will live on forever.

Just listening to the arrangement of Thriller because of Halloween and knowing that it was all him. That and Billy Jean. Two iconic songs you know just from hearing the first two beats

There's a wonderful documentary on Jones on Netflix. Recommended.

NY Times obit

Direct link

Did he vote?

[quote] Did he vote?

R11 He sends his love.

Susan Dey is quite busy campaigning for Kamala. She may wait to issue a statement after the election.

He deserves the bulk of the credit for creating MJ's best albums. And his own music was also very good.

He made this album after suffering a cerebral aneurism in 1975. The fact that he made it to 91 is amazing. 7 decades in the music industry, married and dated some of the most beautiful women in the world. What a life.

R11, hopefully he followed Jimmy Carter's example and voted early.

He was super handsome back in the day, and well into middle age.

Quincy and Rod Temperton where a huge factor in the success of Thriller and Michael's other early albums.

R8 thanks for that link. Was Quincy bisexual, I'm sure I read that somewhere, probably on here.

I'll always love him for this banger:

R17 Ask Will Smith

A giant of popular music. It is hard to overstate his importance to the art. I am sure he will be breathlessly eulogized for weeks and some of it will sound like hyperbole but it is not. He certainly left his mark on this world.

There are people dying.

WHEN WE!

Back on the Block (1989) was such a musical masterpiece... one track better than the next, all so unique and musically magnificent.

In honor of the importance of TOMORROW in the importance of our lives, here's Tevin Campbell's Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me) from Back to Black.

RIP Q.

Like r5, I think of him as being with Lesley.

The only artist I recall whoever said anything on the negative side of QJ was Donna Summer, and in retrospect of 40 years ago, it wasn't that negative at all.

David Geffen had rejected Summer's second album for his label in 1981 ("I'm A Rainbow"). He fired producer Giorgio Moroder (which ended his partnership with Summer), and brought in QJ to produce her next album, which was titled 'Donna Summer'. Geffen wanted a more urban, R&B sound to her album, and not the disco / dance music on 'I'm A Rainbow'. By the time she and Jones got together to start working on the album in late 1981, she was pregnant to her third daughter, Amanda.

Summer later said in her 2003 memoir it was not a 'pleasant' experience working with Jones for six months in the studio, and she had a difficult pregnancy at the time. She said (quite professionally) she and Jones had two very different approaches about the album, and how to record it. Though she liked Jones as a person, and they had a friendly relationship after the album was finished, it was an experience she didn't want to repeat again (and therefore, did not participate in 'We Are The World' in 1985).

As for Jones, his triumph on her album was 'State of Independence' (which was a worldwide hit, but just missed the Top 40 in America when it was released in the fall of 1982). He would use that arrangement again for 'We Are The World' and 'Places You Find Love' on Barbra Streisand's 1988 album. About five years ago, he claimed Michael Jackson 'stole' the music from Summer's recording of 'State of Independence' on his own hit 'Billie Jean'.

I loved his TV show in the 70s. He was an old coroner sleuth and Lee Meriwether was his assistant.

I know this is strange, considering what an incredible career he had, but the first thing I associate with him is "Soul Bossa Nova". RIP.

He was due to receive another honorary Oscar in two weeks. 91 years old is a good long run though, plus the incredible career he had. Rest in peace sir.

It's not strange at all, considering more people know him as a producer than as a musician.

[quote]He was due to receive another honorary Oscar in two weeks.

I'm the runner-up if he can't make it. The rules are the Oscar goes to the runner-up if first-place can't make it. That Oscar will go to ME !

I bet nobody expected that Quincy would outlive Michael Jackson by 15 years.

Sha la….sha linge…

He was a musical genius….his contribution to music 🎵 is immeasurable…he now with Peggy…RIP

I loved that he had the balls to say the Beatles sucked.

This makes me really sad. He had a hand in so many songs I like and his music was everywhere throughout my life. What a great and prolific talent. RIP.

Derivative.

Love so much of his work, especially some of the late 70s stuff.

This was perfection......Quincy at the controls, Miss Patti Austin at the mic, singing a song Lesley Gore wrote, one that will absolutely tear your fucking heart out, about love or the lack of it.

He was married to former Mod Squader Peggy Lipton the mother of Rashida Jones

amazing career, defined pop music for a whole generation

Another killer combo - Quincy, Patti and Rod Temperton.

YAAAASSSSSSSSS

Cowritten by Quincy

R40, if you like Razzmatazz you should get his album The Dude.

R42 Oh I have it! And several others.

Also from the Color Purple

Now that was a life lived.

Michael Caine and Quincy were both born on March 14, 1933.

Someone has claimed her he is now with Lesley Gore, and someone else has claimed he is now with Peggy Lipton.

Which is it?

Verificatia of sizemeat?

R47 Lesley put the "Les" in lesbian. They may have been close friends and were crucial to each other's careers but they were never an item.

Word is he had been very depressed since Terri Garr died.

[quote] She said (quite professionally) she and Jones had two very different approaches about the album, and how to record it.

Yes, his approach yielded the best vocal performance Donna ever committed to a recording, and that's saying something because she is FABULOUS.

Let’s not forget this absolute banger.

^^^That’s been my ringtone for years - always makes people smile, it’s so good.

Another favorite of mine.

Rod Temperton wrote it and Quincy produced.

He lost credibility when he tried to claim the Beatles weren’t talented just to suck off the woke kids.

R53 It was mine for years too. Great minds and all.

R24 thanks for that link. I didn't know many of the details in that story about Jones and Lesley Gore....fun read. Thanks, Mr. Jones!

Has Peggy Lipton commented?

Quincy Jones is why we don’t flippantly throw around the word ‘icon’. He was/remains an icon, for many reasons stated above in this thread, & then some.

We are all exceptionally fortunate to live in an era where he did, as well.

May he RIP, & condolences to his family, friends & associates.

R55 I thought he did that because his ex Peggy had an affair with Paul Mccartney.

R36 = Paul McCartney

RIP Quincy.

The Beatles got away with being charming little thieves, didn't they?

Has his smug spawn brat Rashida released a statement?

She has R63. She said her father has finally consciously uncoupled from this world.

[Quote] There are people trying to kill out here. Please, more celebrities, die.

R30 Barbra Jo the gum smacking waitress that can talk smack with the truck drivers but really has a heart of gold 💛

Quincy confirmed that Marvin Gaye was bi.

The "Donna Summer" album that Quincy produced was wonderful, imho. It didn't sell as well as it should've.

[quote]Someone has claimed her he is now with Lesley Gore, and someone else has claimed he is now with Peggy Lipton.

[quote]Which is it?

Lesley Gore did not care for dick at all. She was strictly a pussy pirate.

The Montreux Jazz Festival will never be the same.

R68 I thought it was a bit uneven. The Springsteen duet was wretched.

[quote] In a 2018 interview with GQ, he said: "I got 22 girlfriends…Hell yeah. Everywhere. Cape Town. Cairo. Stockholm – she's coming in next week. "Brazil – Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, and Rio. Shanghai – got a great girl over there from Shanghai, man. Cairo, whew." When asked if they knew about one another, Quincy said: "Yeah, I don't lie. And it's amazing – women get it, man. Don't you ever forget they're 13 years smarter than we are. Don't you ever forget it."

[quote] The famed American star went on to add that none of them were "fat and old", but between the ages of 28 to 42. He explained that his daughters restricted his age-gap romances and told him: "Dad, you can't go out with girls younger than us." Quincy added: "You see me with an 84-year-old woman? Are you crazy? Why not? Why? For what, man? There's nothing... there's no upside."

Quincy was quite the pussy pirate himself.

He sounds like a pig and a lousy father. No wonder his daughter Kidada or however you spell it, was hanging out with thug rappers.

R73 = Donald

Typical brain dead American, making everything political R74. Enjoy your decline.

[quote] He lost credibility when he tried to claim the Beatles weren’t talented just to suck off the woke kids.

I never heard about that. Are you sure it is real?

[quote] [R68] I thought it was a bit uneven. The Springsteen duet was wretched.

What Springsteen duet?

By the way, he wrote "Cover Me" for Donna but she chose to record "Protection."

I was hoping he's write a tell-all book. That interview he gave a few years ago was juicy.

R76 probably not. Q even accepted an Oscar for the Beatles in 1971.

This is one of my favorites. Chaka Khan and Ashford & Simpson on vocals.

[quote]The "Donna Summer" album that Quincy produced was wonderful, imho.

He and Donna did not get along. The making of that flop album was torture for everybody involved.

R34 yeah! That was soooooo edgy! He sure showed us white colonists Beatles fans!

🙄

Meanwhile, McCartney posted a lovely tribute to Jones.

Wow R4 did not know this was Quincy Jones!

For me, that's Austin Powers.

I heard a story that he got so irritated by Michael Jackson’s vocal tics( heeee heeee), that he beat him up in the recording studio.

A man that knew something about great legs

A true Titan of the music industry -a man of immense talent and skill. I don't think we'll see his equal again.

My favorite Quincy Jones track. It never fails to cheer me up, never. Kudos to Ray Charles and Chaka Khan, of course. (Side note: This is the album cut, which the official video used when it was released. Now the video, at least on YouTube, has a different version of the song. The video is still fun, but it's not right without the album version of the song, to me, anyway.) In other news, I learned from Quincy's obituary that his middle name was Delight. Appropriate!

Does anyone remember when he said that Marlon Brando had sex with Marvin Gaye and Richard Pryor?

[quote]By the way, he wrote "Cover Me" for Donna but she chose to record "Protection."

Summer didn't choose to record "Protection", Springsteen did it for her through default. One of his band-members talked him into keeping "Cover Me" for himself, because they knew it would be a hit. In order for him to keep it on the album, he had to drop one of the songs - so it was 'Protection', which he gave to Donna and they first recorded it as a 'duet'. He didn't like the duet, and realized it would be better if she sang it as a solo. Instead of releasing this as the second single, as planned, Geffen released 'State of Independence'.

R80 I love that one too.

R 87, I prefer the Brother's Johnson version.

I’ve never listened to the full Donna Summer 1982 album, but I listened to State Of Independence today and thought it was a lousy song and sounded like filler. Some other tracks I’ve heard are so so, but it’s little wonder she started losing her golden touch on the charts. She should’ve stuck with Moroder longer.

Giorgio Moroder got frustrated with Donna when she became a born again Christian in the early 80s and didn't want to sing the sexy stuff any more. Her idiot husband became her manager (he had no management experience) and her career suffered as a result. Moroder talked about it in an interview he did a few years after Donna died. They just couldn't mesh creatively anymore because of Donna's Jesus shit and her husband controlling her career.

He executive produced Melissa Manchester- Mathematics album from 1985!

I posted this on the other thread, not knowing this thread existed. (I was wondering why so few people cared that Quincy died!)

Anyway, it's a trip. He obviously had quite a life and spills all sorts of tea.

Here's a good write up on the Donna Summer album.

R93 yeah I remember reading about her fallout with Giorgio. With her being born again, and her husband managing her, I guess it was all meant to be. She still managed three more top 10 in the 80s, but after Bad Girls it wasn’t the same obviously.

The State of Independence by Donna Summer produced by Q is fucking brilliant.

I just listened to it for the first time in years and it sent me back!

I remember ROLLING STONE, who praised both Summer's "Bad Girls" and "The Wanderer" each with five-star reviews, trashed "Donna Summer" in their review when the album came out 42 years ago. Most of the criticism went to Jones for producing the 'uneven' album. The reviewer was particularly hard on 'The Woman In Me' (as they said, this was a woman who - just a few years ago - was singing 'Lookin' for a lover who needs another/Don't want another night on my own/ Wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover/ Wanna bring a wild man back home' and had us believing her. Now she's telling us 'It's so easy with you / I don't need an excuse to be the woman in me...') They dismissed 'State of Independence' as a 'epic choral nightmare'. The reviewer was befuddled with 'Livin' In America' ('He had to hustle so he could pay the rent Played all the aces and wound up president' - was she singing about a pimp ?).

I liked The Odd Couple more than Quincy

Donna’s cover of LUSH LIFE on that album was also terrible.

I happen to love her Lush Life cover.

Condolences to Radisha. Jim done you wrong on “The Office”, and now you’re an orphan.

You never owned me!

[quote]By the way, he wrote "Cover Me" for Donna but she chose to record "Protection."

Not quite,R77.

Springsteen played the song for his manager Jon Landau.

When Landau heard it, he insisted Bruce keep it for himself because he (Landau) said it would be a hit.

Springsteen then went and wrote “Protection” for her.

Donna wanted to sing all styles of music, but her voice was too heavy and couldn't navigate anything other than pop/disco. Linda Ronstadt, on the other hand, had the type of voice which could sing anything convincingly. She also had a big, heavy voice, but she could modulate it better for softer songs. Summer had to whisper, or talk sing, when she tried to sing softly.

Quincy had a good ear as a producer but Phil Spector was better even if he was nuts.

I wonder if a young lezzie but curious Gore ever tasted his black sizemeat.

Leslie was always les-ly. When it was her turn to cry, she cried about butch labia.

Judy wasn't giving up the cooch.

What exactly does a "producer" do in music?

as opposed to, say, a composer?

I don't know how universal this is, but Brian Wilson and Phil Spector were both involved in creating the sound that lay under the vocals, choosing instruments and instrumentations that went beyond your mere lead, rhythm, bass, and drums. They were considered the creators of their sound, though other people wrote most of Spector's songs, to some of which he attached his name to get the credit.

I'm sure there's a lot more to producing. And I imagine Quincy functioned a lot like Phil Spector. I don't know if he wrote any music or not.

“I think the new album is a... what do you call it? A collaboration... and a wonderful mix of a lot of people’s talents. And certainly Quincy Jones’s expertise and... I mean, I love that man. And at a time when I was pregnant and feeling very insecure perhaps, and very nonmusical, very unproductive, I mean just pregnant. When you have to be professional, and musical, and be creative, and you just want to ... all you want to create are baby clothes. You know, you want to paint the room, and you want to do this and you don’t really want to get into music. It can be very hard. And I find that... I found that Quincy was a disciplinarian in a time when he really needed to be for me. And I think that really helped me to get through the album. And thank God for that.”

- Donna Summer (Good Morning America Sept 8, 1982 promoting the release of the album "Donna Summer" )

"........record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received many accolades including 28 Grammy Awards,[1] a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.[2]"

The GQ interview was awesome.

He wasn’t connected with Diddy, was he?

State of Independence by Jon and Vangelis. Completely different:

You got out just in time, Q.

That’s what I was thinking!

R84 this is the story as posted on Popbitch back in the day

"A friend of mine was in Los Angeles 79 thru 87. Michael Jackson had had a huge hit with Off The Wall, and was recording the follow up.

"The sessions were arranged for a very late start, and, after a night on the town, my mate popped around to the studio to see the producer.

"He got into the control room to find that everyone's attention was fixed on the glass window. On the other side, Quincy Jones was kicking a pile of rags on the floor while shouting "Silent, you motherfucker! I said NO SQUEAKS!"

"It turned out the pile of rags was a gibbering Michael Jackson. They were recording a new song called Billie Jean, and Michael had decided to fill every gap with his trademark whoops, clicks and squeaks. Quincy, however, had decided that the track would be a pared down.

"After several hours of trying to get the singer to do what he wanted, and having consumed large quantities of ragedust, Jones had finally snapped and attacked the poor freak. Needless to say, after the outburst, MJ sang the song how he was told to, and the rest is history."

Quincy must have sensed what was coming and peaced the fuck out.

Q and B won their first Grammy together in 1963.

In 1988 he had an impressive group assembeled to sing backup for Babs.

Luther Vandross, , James Ingram, Howard Hewett, Jennifer Holliday, Peggi Blu, Clif Magness, Siedah Garrett, Edie Lehmann and someone whom Miss Streisand once referred to as " somebody else who´s name i don´t remember"........

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