The University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music has been hosting a year-long celebration of Quincy Jones’ life and legacy, and in the wake of the great artist-songwriter-producer-entrepreneur’s passing earlier this month, the series continues with three more of the six celebratory events, which are presented in coordination with USC’s Visions and Voices presenting […]

The 15th annual Governors Awards, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, celebrated industry legends on Sunday night, most notably music and producing icon Quincy Jones, who died earlier this month at the age of 91. The entire crowd was moved to tears when his daughter Rashida Jones, accompanied by three of […]

Rashida Jones wrote an emotional tribute to her father, music legend Quincy Jones, who died on Sunday night at the age of 91. In an Instagram post, she called him a “giant. An icon. A culture shifter. A genius.” “My dad was nocturnal his whole adult life,” she wrote. “He kept ‘jazz hours’ starting in […]

Spanning 70 years and towering roles as a musician, songwriter/ composer, producer, arranger, entrepreneur and more, Quincy Jones’ career in music is unparalleled. Jones — “Q” to friends and collaborators, who died late Sunday at the age of 91 — revolutionized how audiences across the globe heard popular music by erasing genre boundaries while playing […]

Tributes are rolling in for late music legend Quincy Jones, who died on Sunday night at the age of 91. Over the course of his 70-year career, Jones was an artist, bandleader, composer, arranger and producer. He won 28 Grammys and most notably shaped the career of Michael Jackson, beginning with his breakthrough 1979 album […]

Quincy Jones, who distinguished himself over the course of a 70-year career in music as an artist, bandleader, composer, arranger and producer, has died. He was 91. Jones died Sunday night at his home in Bel Air, Calif., according to a statement shared with Variety by his rep Arnold Robinson. A cause of death was […]