The Chicago native has lived a thousand and one recording lives shining as much in jazz as in pop, funk, bossa nova or hip hop. But it was first jazz that welcomed the Chicago native, a self-taught pianist who learned the trumpet at school before taking lessons from Clark Terry, whom he met at the age of 14 during a Count Basie concert. After entering the Berklee College of Music in Boston on a scholarship, he joined Lionel Hampton’s orchestra in 1949 as a trumpeter and arranger and began writing hundreds of arrangements for Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderley , Ray Charles, Lena Horne, and even Frank Sinatra.
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In 1956, he went on tour with Dizzy Gillespie’s big band of which he was musician and musical director, met Lalo Schiffrin and published his first album This Is How I Feel About Jazz in 1958; the love affair between Q and jazz was launched and would last more than sixty years. All his life, the genius integrated into his productions and his compositions the mutations of music and jazz, navigating as well in the bebop sphere, as in bossa nova, jazz funk, Latin jazz or jazz hop by collaborating with artists like Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, the Double Six, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Phil Woods, Ray Brown, George Duke, Sevie Wonder, Eddy Louiss, Toots Thielemans… On July 8, 1991, Quincy Jones performed with Miles Davis and The Gil Evans Orchestra at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
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