📋 Legendary Music Producer Quincy Jones Dies at 91 (AARP Article)

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📋 Legendary Music Producer Quincy Jones Dies at 91 (AARP Article)

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Legendary Music Composer and Producer Quincy Jones Dies at 91.

His work on Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ helped it become the best-selling album of all time.

By Alanna Nash, AARP. Published November 04, 2024.

He was 7 years old, living on the South Side of Chicago, when he saw his mother taken away in a straitjacket, institutionalized for schizophrenia. “For a son,” GQ magazine quoted him as saying in 2018, “the worst thing that can happen to you is not to have a mother, man.” Yet it propelled him.

Quincy Jones, who died Nov. 3 at home in Los Angeles surrounded by his family at age 91, found solace and salvation in the trumpet as a teen, rising to stratospheric heights as an arranger and a record, movie and TV producer. He composed nearly 40 film scores, including In Cold Blood, The Italian Job and the movie version of the Broadway hit The Wiz, for which he wrote new songs.

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2024/quincy-jones-obit/