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name: "Quincy Jones"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/quincy-jones"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "14 March 1933"
died: "3 November 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T16:49:31.468380+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Quincy Jones

Composer. Born 14 March 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died 3 November 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 14 March 1933, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 3 November 2024
- **Also known as:** Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.

## 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.

*Sources: forbes.com, allmusic.com, biography.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Roots* (1977), Fi1m 83, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/roots.md)

## Also known for

- *The Color Purple* (1985), Original Music Composer, Lyricist, Songs
- *In the Heat of the Night* (1967), Original Music Composer, Songs
- *Get Rich or Die Tryin'* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *The Italian Job* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *The Getaway* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *In Cold Blood* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *The Color Purple* (2023), Songs
- *The Wiz* (1978), Music Supervisor, Music Arranger

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