In that environment, he was exposed to brutal violence. He also has a scar from being hit with an ice pick. Jones got his first big break from the Queen of the Jukebox. But it was Washington, one of the most popular jazz-meets-pop singers of the s, whom he credits with jump-starting his career. According to his autobiography, they also had a brief romantic affair. And after that, work started to flow. Jones studied with a titan of classical music. So, in , Jones went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, the French composer who taught many of the leading classical musicians of the 20th century, notably Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein.
Like a number of jazz musicians, he also found France more open-minded than pre-Civil-Rights-Movement America. Debt drove Jones to pop music. We had 18 hits with Lesley. Frank Sinatra fought to desegregate Las Vegas casinos in order to continue his work with Jones. After battling segregation in the arranger community, Jones set his sights on scoring. When he wrapped up with Sinatra in Vegas, Jones traveled to Hollywood in the hopes of writing music for movies.
How can you write for a white star? He found advocates like Henry Mancini and eventually forged a connection with Sidney Lumet. Jones saw Michael Jackson as a kindred spirit. Enter your The HistoryMakers username. Enter the password that accompanies your username. As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including records, live performance, movies and television.
While in junior high school, Jones began studying trumpet and sang in a Gospel quartet at age twelve. In , Jones decided to continue his musical education by studying with Nadia Boulanger, the legendary Parisian tutor to American expatriate composers such as Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copeland. Toward the end of his association with the label, Jones turned his attention to another musical area that had been closed to blacks--the world of film scores.
In September , a documentary entitled Quincy was released by Netflix. The film was co-directed by his daughter, actress Rashida Jones. Jones has been married three times. His first marriage was to Jeri Caldwell from to ; they had one daughter together named Jolie. Jones was then married to Ulla Andersson, with whom he shares a son, Quincy, and a daughter, Martina, from to Jones' final marriage was to actress Peggy Lipton.
The pair were married from to , and they have two daughters, Rashida and Kidada. He also has two daughters from other relationships. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
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