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Quincy Jones
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Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Actor, Songwriter Born: March 14, 1933 in Chicago, IL Biography:Born in Chicago, African-American composer/musician "Quincy Jones" grew up in Seattle. An alumnus of both the Berklee School and Boston's Schillinger school of music, the 17-year-old "Jones" became a trumpeter/arranger for "Dizzy Gillespie", then toured with "Lionel Hampton" before organizing his own band. From the late '50s through 1968, "Jones" held down executive posts at Barclay Records of Paris and Mercury Records of Hollywood. The first of "Jones"' jazz-dominated movie scores was for 1965's "The Pawnbroker"; subsequent film assignments included "In Cold Blood" (1967), "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), "The Wiz" (1978) and "The Color Purple" (1984), which he co-produced. Equally active on the small screen, "Jones" composed theme and incidental music for the TV series "I Spy" and "Ironside", and in 1978 won an Emmy for his work on the monumental miniseries "Roots". A pioneer in the realm of... Full Biography
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