Quincy D. Jones

An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, he encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur. As a master inventor of contemporary music, he combined pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African, and Brazilian musics into many dazzling fusions, transversing virtually every medium, including live performance, records, movies, television, broadcasting, and interactive technologies.