Today we celebrate 78 years of life for The Dude” a/k/a Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. He’s worked with some of the world’s favorite musicians of all time like Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Tevin Campbell, Tamia and Michael Jackson.
If you’re in the entertainment business, in any fashion, it’s safe to say Quincy Jones has had some influence on you. From creating some of the most memorable music in history to founding one of hip hop’s most loved magazines, Quincy Jones has done it all. WBW: Samples of History: Hip-Hop Mines Afrobeat In celebration […]
With the increasing number of films aimed towards black audiences in the early 1970s, filmmakers realized that they couldn’t turn to Henry Mancini to provide the musical backdrops for these movies.
Via TheUrbanDaily.com Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie are putting together a re-recording of the 1985 charity single, “We Are The World.” Plans for the 25th anniversary re-recording were already underway when earthquakes devastated Haiti on January 12th. Richie and Jones are planning the massive recording session, already slated to include Usher, Natalie Cole, and John […]
