Quincy Jones

A jazz trumpeter and arranger, he was one of the first Black composers to build a Hollywood career. The Pawnbroker and In Cold Blood established him in the sixties, and in 1967 he became the first African American with two Oscar nominations in the same year. He produced and scored Spielberg's The Color Purple. The Academy gave him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and, after his death in November 2024, an honorary Oscar.

Style

Big band, soul and orchestra, with lots of percussion and prominent bass.

Awards

7 Oscar nominations, including In Cold Blood and The Color Purple. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a posthumous honorary Oscar (2024).

Discography

• The Pawnbroker (1964) Spotify · Apple Music
• Mirage (1965) Spotify · Apple Music
• The Deadly Affair (1966) Spotify · Apple Music
• The Slender Thread (1966) Spotify · Apple Music
• Walk, Don't Run (1966) Spotify · Apple Music
• In Cold Blood (1967) Spotify · Apple Music
• The Italian Job (1969) Spotify · Apple Music
• The Adventurers (1970) Spotify · Apple Music
• Roots (1977) Spotify · Apple Music
• The Color Purple (1985) Spotify

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Listen

• In Cold Blood · In Cold BloodSpotifyApple MusicYouTube

Full biography on Wikipedia