1. Quincy Jones says he dreamed about composing film scores as a teenager growing up in Seattle.
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1. Quincy Jones says he dreamed about composing film scores as a teenager growing up in Seattle.
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3. Quincy Jones has worked with the foundation to save the homes and lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, including those who survived Hurricane Katrina.
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4. Quincy Jones is the founder of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, a nonprofit organization that built more than 100 homes in South Africa and which aims to connect youths with technology, education, culture, and music.
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5. Quincy Jones appeared with Ray Charles in the music video of their song "One Mint Julep" and with Ray Charles and Chaka Khan in the music video of their song "I'll Be Good to You".
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6. Quincy Jones became music director at Barclay, a French record company and the licensee for Mercury in France.
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8. Quincy Jones left his studies after receiving an offer to tour as a trumpeter, arranger, and pianist with the bandleader Lionel Hampton and embarked on his professional career.
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9. Quincy Jones was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time magazine.
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11. Quincy Jones was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 1967 film In Cold Blood, making him the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year.
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12. Quincy Jones was raised in Seattle and began studies in Boston at the prestigious Schillinger House in Boston in 1951.
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13. Quincy Jones has worked as an arranger, composer and producer for some of the greatest performers of swing, jazz, blues and hip-hop, from Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra to Little Richard and Michael Jackson.
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15. Quincy Jones stated that he dated Ivanka Trump who is Trump's favorite daughter, 12 years ago.
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18. Quincy Jones dropped out of college after he got an offer to tour as a trumpeter with Lionel Hampton.
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19. In 1951, Quincy Jones was lucky enough to secure a scholarship to Seattle University but was there for only one semester and transferred to Berklee College of Music located in Boston after getting yet another scholarship.
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21. Quincy Jones spent most his life with Michael Jackson and with that alone, he had a lot of advantage of meeting the greatest people in the world.
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24. As an arranger in the 1950s, Quincy Jones worked with many music industry legends such as Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton and Frank Sinatra, among others.
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26. In 1990 Quincy Jones composed a theme song for the new sitcom which was centered around Will Smith, The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air.
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32. In 1963, Quincy Jones won his first Grammy award for his Count Basie arrangement of "I Can't Stop Loving You".
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33. Quincy Jones was working with these artists while holding an executive position at Mercury Records, being one of the very few African Americans at the time to have such a position.
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35. In 1951, Quincy Jones had won a scholarship to the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
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42. Quincy Jones was advised not to "compete with himself", so he went with In Cold Blood and it was the other film that ended up winning the Oscars.
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43. In 1971, Quincy Jones was the first African American to be named as the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony.
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45. Quincy Jones met Michael Jackson when they worked on the 1978 movie The Wiz.
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47. Quincy Jones worked on a film biography of the black Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
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49. Quincy Jones started his musical career as a trumpet player, touring with Lionel Hampton in the early 1950s.
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51. Quincy Jones is an American musician, composer and record producer for big names like Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin.
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57. Quincy Jones had a good relationship with Miles Davis, and in the 70s he asked the artist to revive some of his previous albums in a new record.
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59. In 1964, Quincy Jones was promoted to vice-president of Mercury Records.
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63. In 1985, Quincy Jones scored another success in Hollywood with his compositions for the soundtrack to The Color Purple.
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67. In 1964, Quincy Jones became the first African American executive in a white-owned recording company when Mercury Records named him vice-president.
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72. Quincy Jones branched out into concert music with his Black Requiem, a work for orchestra.
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74. In 1956 Quincy Jones helped the trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie organize his first State Department big band.
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75. Quincy Jones toured Europe with Hampton and soloed on the band's recording of his own composition, "Kingfish".
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78. Quincy Jones broke yet another color barrier in 1965 when he became the first black composer to be accepted by the Hollywood establishment.
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80. Quincy Jones traveled to Paris in 1957, where he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen, became music director for Mercury Records' French division, and briefly led a big band.
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81. Quincy Jones gained further recognition in the motion picture industry as one of the producers and the musical coordinator for Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple.
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84. Quincy Jones worked on a film biography of the black Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
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88. At the same time, Quincy Jones began releasing his own albums and composing musical scores for Hollywood films such as In Cold Blood and In the Heat of the Night.
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90. In the early 1950s Quincy Jones moved to New York City and began working as a musical arranger, overseeing recording sessions for artists such as jazz singer Helen Merrill, trumpeter Clifford Brown, and famed "Queen of the Blues", Dinah Washington.
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93. In 1956, Quincy Jones was selected by the US State Department to assemble a big band under the leadership of Dizzy Gillespie to tour the Middle East and South America.
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100. In the early 1950s Quincy Jones studied briefly at the prestigious Schillinger House in Boston before touring with Lionel Hampton as a trumpeter and arranger.
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101. Quincy Jones was born in Chicago and reared in Bremerton, Washington, where he studied the trumpet and worked locally with the then-unknown pianist-singer Ray Charles.
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