It’s the man who’s been making noise in the music industry for 64 years, Mr. Quincy Jones! The baby on the left is him, can you tell now? He looks exactly the same. The baby on the right is Jones’ younger brother Lloyd, who sadly passed away in 1998. Round of applause to you if you got this one right.
Jones has won the second most amount of Grammys in history, with 27 wins and 79 Grammy nominations, including a Grammy Legend Award he received in 1991.
Here’s one of our favorite Quincy Jones produced records. Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You” from MJ’s “Off The Wall” album…
Speaking of Quincy, check out this tribute he paid to his beloved friends, the late, greats: B.B.King and Maya Angelou (via Time.com):
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The legendary producer remembers the king of the blues, their work on a Sidney Poitier film and B.B.’s relationship with Maya Angelou
Everything B.B. ever did, I loved — just the way he’d bend his notes. Everything. He represented all the different stages of blues, and I don’t think anybody resonated more emotionally and spiritually than B.B. He took the essence of the culture of what blues and R&B was, and he brought it around the world — until he was 89.
I first met B.B. King working on the film For Love of Ivy, starring Sidney Poitier. I did the score to that, and Maya Angelou, who was in her 30s at the time, wrote the lyrics. She wrote two songs, “B.B. Jones” and “You Put it on Me,” and B.B. recorded them. They were hits! That was a great trio, the three of us. I think they had a little romantic relationship, there, too — she didn’t tell me until about four years ago. I said, “Honey, if you’d talked to me first, I would have told you that blues singers don’t get the blues, they give the blues!”
B.B. was the king because he took the blues from dirt-poor, smoke-in-the-air juke joints all the way to the big concert halls. He started out picking cotton — he was all the way back in the dark side of our country. And his music came from the dark side — it’s a positive way of escaping that darkness.
When I was studying with Nadia Boulanger, the legendary composer and teacher, in Paris, she used to say, “Your music can never be more than you are as a human being.” And B.B. King was a great human being. It’s painful to know that he’ll never answer the phone again.
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May B.B. King and Maya Angelou continue to rest peacefully.
Now y’all know we couldn’t possibly talk about one of the baddest producers, composers, musicians, songwriters, entertainment moguls in the world, without spotlighting some of his best work. Turn the page and take a trip back in time with us family…
