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14 Essential Quincy Jones Songs

As a producer, arranger, composer, bandleader and recording artist, he made a powerful mark on nearly every genre he touched. He died Sunday, at 91.

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Quincy Jones was one of the most powerful forces in American popular music for more than half a century.

Quincy Jones, Giant of American Music, Dies at 91

As a producer, he made the best-selling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” He was also a prolific arranger and composer of film music.

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Quincy Jones in 2013. Starting in the late 1950s, he took social and professional mobility to a new level in Black popular art.
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