Biography
Quincy Jones (also credited as Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.) was an American composer, arranger and music producer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on 14 March 1933, he began his career in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and trumpeter before moving into film and television scoring in the mid-1960s.
He composed the music for the 1977 miniseries Roots, for which he received an Emmy Award. His other film scores include In the Heat of the Night (1967), In Cold Blood (1967), The Italian Job (1969), The Getaway (1972) and The Color Purple (1985). Jones died on 3 November 2024.
