Quincy Jones, music legend who collaborated with Michael Jackson, dies at the age of 91 | Celebrity News | Showbiz and TV

Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranges from producing Michael Jackson’s landmark album ‘Thriller’ to writing award-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank SinatraRay Charles and hundreds of other artists have died at the age of 91.

Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, says he died Sunday evening at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, surrounded by his family.

“Tonight, it is with full but broken hearts that we share the news of the passing of our father and brother Quincy Jones,” the family said in a statement. “And while this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the amazing life he lived and know there will never be another like him.”

Jones rose from working with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the top ranks of show business, becoming one of the first black executives to thrive in Hollywood and assembling an extraordinary musical catalog that contains some of the richest moments of American rhythm and song. For years, you were unlikely to find a music lover who didn’t own at least one record with his name on it, or a leader in the entertainment industry and beyond who didn’t have some connection to him.

Jones socialized with presidents and foreign leaders, movie stars and musicians, philanthropists and business leaders. He toured with Count Basie and Lionel Hampton, arranged records for Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, composed the soundtracks for “Roots” and “In the Heat of the Night,” organized President Bill Clinton’s first inaugural celebration and oversaw the all- star recording of “We Are the World,” the 1985 charity record for famine relief in Africa.

Lionel Richie, who co-wrote “We Are the World” and was one of the singers, would call Jones “the master orchestrator.”

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