March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024.
We honor Quincy Jones, one of the most powerful forces in American popular music for more than half a century. Mr. Jones began his career as a jazz trumpeter and was later in great demand as an arranger, a composer of film music, and as a record producer. He has the third-highest total of Grammy Awards won by a single person — he was nominated 80 times and won 28. He was given honorary degrees by Harvard, Princeton, Juilliard, the New England Conservatory, the Berklee School of Music and many other institutions, as well as a National Medal of Arts and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master fellowship.