Quincy Jones – “Body Heat” (1974) Jones successfully navigated his way past sunny funk and into the bluesy nighttime of quiet storm romanticism with this 1974 album and its sultry title track.

Remembering Quincy Jones: 10 career-spanning songs to celebrate his legacy Throughout his career, Quincy Jones worked with everyone from Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, with ...

Quincy Jones leaves behind iconic music legacy, from 'Thriller' to 'We Are the World' This whirlwind life as a traveling musician deposited Jones, who was broke, back in the States in 1961.

Quincy Jones’s impact wasn’t just about his music. In 1985, he orchestrated the We Are the World project, a charity single designed to raise funds for famine relief in Africa.

To the average music fan, Quincy Jones, who died Monday at age 91, leaves behind a legacy as one of contemporary music’s greatest record producers, a titanic figure behind some of the most ...

Composer Quincy Jones at his home studio in October 1974 writing music, listening to a recording on his headphones. (AP Photo/George Brich, File) By Philip Ewell, Hunter College ...

Quincy Jones, the multitalented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating ...

To begin to appreciate what Quincy Jones meant to American popular music, listen to Frank Sinatra’s 1964 recording of “ Fly Me to the Moon ” with the Count Basie Orchestra swinging behind him.

Now Jones wanted to try his hand at producing pop songs. “It turned out to be a little harder than I thought,” he explains in “ Quincy,” a 2018 documentary that manages to squeeze an ...