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ASCAP Jazz Living Legend Award
Quincy Delight Jones is a truly multi-faceted musical talent, a man who has made his mark as a composer, instrumentalist, bandleader, record producer, arranger and executive. Virtually every significant musical artist of the past 50 years in the fields of jazz, pop and R&B has benefitted in some manner from the Quincy Jones touch. Born in Chicago and raised in Seattle, Jones sang in a gospel quartet as a child and began studying the trumpet in high school. He studied at Boston's Berklee College of Music, and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. Jones' first major professional job was with Lionel Hampton, who recruited him to play trumpet and write arrangements for his touring band. That connection led to a move to New York and worked with the likes of Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and other top names in jazz. In 1961, Jones became Vice President of Mercury Records and supervised recordings by artists from Dinah Washington to Lesley Gore. In 1963, Jones received the first of 26 Grammy Awards and a record-breaking 77 nominations. Over the years, Quincy Jones has composed jazz scores for numerous high-profile films, including The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night and In Cold Blood, among many others. His scoring work for television includes The Bill Cosby Show, Sanford and Son, Ironside and the Emmy-winning score of Roots. And Quincy Jones has, of course, been a catalyst in pop music, most notably for his work with Michael Jackson, but his impact on jazz is almost beyond measure. He remains an active force in the music via his work as co-producer of the annual Montreux Jazz Festival.
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