Quincy Jones # 335

Quincy Jones, producer and entertainment powerhouse, dies aged 91

Widely and wildly talented musician and industry mogul worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Will Smith and others 

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Quincy Jones, a titan of American entertainment who worked with stars from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson and Will Smith, has died aged 91.

Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, said he died on Sunday night at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, surrounded by his family.

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

Jones was arguably the most versatile pop cultural figure of the 20th century, perhaps best known for producing the albums Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad for Michael Jackson in the 1980s, which made the singer the biggest pop star of all time. Jones also produced music for Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer and many others.

He was also a successful composer of dozens of film scores, and had numerous chart hits under his own name. Jones was a bandleader in big band jazz, an arranger for jazz stars including Count Basie, and a multi-instrumentalist, most proficiently on trumpet and piano. His TV and film production company, founded in 1990, had major success with the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and other shows, and he continued to innovate well into his 80s, launching Qwest TV in 2017, an on-demand music TV service. Jones is third only to Beyoncé and Jay-Z for having the most Grammy award nominations of all time – 80 to their 88 each – and is the awards’ third most-garlanded winner, with 28.

Among the tributes to Jones was one from actor Michael Caine, who was born on the same day as Jones: 14 March 1933. “My celestial twin Quincy was a titan in the musical world,” Caine wrote. “He was a wonderful and unique human being, lucky to have known him.”

Playwright and actor Jeremy O Harris paid tribute to Jones’s “limitless” contributions to US culture, writing: “What couldn’t he do? Quincy Jones, literally born when the limits on how big a black boy could dream were unfathomably high, taught us that the limit does not exist.”

Jones was born in Chicago. His half-white father had been born to a Welsh slave owner and one of his female slaves, while his mother’s family were also descended from slave owners. His introduction to music came through the walls of his childhood home from a piano played by a neighbour, which he started learning aged seven, and via his mother’s singing.

His parents divorced and he moved with his father to Washington state, where Jones learned drums and a host of brass instruments in his high-school band. At 14, he started playing in a band with a 16-year-old Ray Charles in Seattle clubs, once, in 1948, backing Billie Holiday. He studied music at Seattle University, transferring east to continue in Boston, and then moved to New York after being rehired by the jazz bandleader Lionel Hampton, with whom he had toured as a high-schooler (a band for which Malcolm X was a heroin dealer when they played in Detroit).

In New York, one early gig was playing trumpet in Elvis Presley’s band for his first TV appearances, and he met the stars of the flourishing bebop movement including Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. (Years later, in 1991, Jones conducted Davis’s last performance, two months before he died.)

Jones toured Europe with Hampton, and spent much time there in the 1950s, including a period furthering his studies in Paris, where he met luminaries including Pablo Picasso, James Baldwin and Josephine Baker. At the age of 23, he also toured South America and the Middle East as Dizzy Gillespie’s musical director and arranger. He convened a crack team for his own big band, touring Europe as a way to test Free and Easy, a jazz musical, but the disastrous run left Jones, by his own admission, close to suicide and with $100,000 of debt.

He secured a job at Mercury Records and slowly paid off the debt with plenty of work as a producer and arranger for artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr. He also began scoring films, his credits eventually including The Italian Job, In the Heat of the Night, The Getaway and The Color Purple. (He produced the last of these, which was nominated for 11 Oscars, three for Jones himself.) In 1968, he became the first African American to be nominated for best original song at the Oscars, for The Eyes of Love from the film Banning (alongside songwriter Bob Russell); he had seven nominations in total. For TV, he scored programmes such as The Bill Cosby Show, Ironside and Roots.

His work with Sinatra began in 1958 when he was hired to conduct and arrange for Sinatra and his band by Grace Kelly, princess consort of Monaco, for a charity event. Jones and Sinatra continued working on projects until Sinatra’s final album, LA Is My Lady, in 1984. Jones’s solo musical career took off in the late 1950s, recording albums under his own name as bandleader for jazz ensembles that included luminaries such as Charles Mingus, Art Pepper and Freddie Hubbard.

Jones once said of his time in Seattle: “When people write about the music, jazz is in this box, R&B is in this box, pop is in this box, but we did everything,” and his catholic tastes served him well as modern pop mutated out of the swing era. He produced four million-selling hits for the New York singer Lesley Gore in the mid-60s, including the US No 1 It’s My Party, and later embraced funk and disco, producing hit singles including George Benson’s Give Me the Night and Patti Austin and James Ingram’s Baby Come to Me, along with records by the band Rufus and Chaka Khan, and the Brothers Johnson. Jones also released his own funk material, scoring US Top 10 albums with Body Heat (1974) and The Dude (1981).

His biggest success in this style was his work with Michael Jackson: Thriller remains the biggest selling album of all time, while Jones’s versatility between Off the Wall and Bad allowed Jackson to metamorphose from lithe disco to ultra-synthetic funk-rock. He and Jackson (along with Lionel Richie and producer Michael Omartian) also helmed We Are the World, a successful charity single that raised funds for famine relief in Ethiopia in 1985. “I’ve lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him,” Jones said when Jackson died in 2009. In 2017, Jones’s legal team successfully argued that he was owed $9.4m in unpaid Jackson royalties, though he lost on appeal in 2020 and had to return $6.8m.

After the success of The Color Purple in 1985, he formed the film and TV production company Quincy Jones Entertainment in 1990. His biggest screen hit was the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which ran for 148 episodes and launched the career of Will Smith; other shows included the LL Cool J sitcom In the House and the long-running sketch comedy show MadTV.

He also created the media company Qwest Broadcasting and in 1993, the Black music magazine Vibe in partnership with Time Inc. Throughout his career he supported numerous charities and causes, including the , National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Jazz Foundation of America and others, and mentored young musicians including the British multiple Grammy winner Jacob Collier.

Jones’ illustrious career was twice nearly cut short: he narrowly avoided being killed by Charles Manson’s cult in 1969, having planned to go to Sharon Tate’s house on the night of the murders there, but Jones forgot the appointment. He also survived a brain aneurysm in 1974 that prevented him from playing the trumpet again in case the exertion caused further harm.

Jones was married three times, first to his high-school girlfriend Jeri Caldwell, for nine years until 1966, fathering his daughter Jolie. In 1967, he married Ulla Andersson and had a son and daughter, divorcing in 1974 to marry actor Peggy Lipton, best known for roles in The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks. They had two daughters, including the actor Rashida Jones, before divorcing in 1989. He had two further children: Rachel, with a dancer, Carol Reynolds, and Kenya, his daughter with actor Nastassja Kinski.

He never remarried, but continued to date a string of younger women, raising eyebrows with his year-long partnership with 19-year-old Egyptian designer Heba Elawadi when he was 73. He has also claimed to have dated Ivanka Trump and Juliette Gréco. He is survived by his seven children.

Other artists paying tribute included LL Cool J, who wrote: “You were a father and example at a time when I truly needed a father and example. Mentor. Role model. King. You gave me opportunities and shared wisdom. Music would not be music without you.” Femi Koleoso, bandleader with Mercury prize-winning jazz group Ezra Collective, called Jones a “masterful musician and beautiful soul”.

Music Department

One Little Finger (2019)

One Little Finger

7.8

music producer

2019

 

Level Up Norge (2016)

Level Up Norge

8.5

TV Series

composer: stock music (uncredited)

2018

1 episode

 

Life Stories (2015)

Life Stories

TV Series

composer: additional music

2016

1 episode

 

Artists for Haiti: We Are the World 25 for Haiti (2010)

Artists for Haiti: We Are the World 25 for Haiti

6.7

Music Video

conductor

2010

 

Brando (2007)

Brando

8.2

TV Movie

music consultant

2007

 

50 Cent in Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

5.5

conductor: additional music

2005

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration (2001)

Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration

8.4

TV Special

musical director (uncredited)

2001

 

Quincy Jones: You Put a Move on My Heart (1995)

Quincy Jones: You Put a Move on My Heart

Music Video

song producer

1995

 

In the Heat of the Night (1988)

In the Heat of the Night

7.6

TV Series

composer: theme music

1988–1995

146 episodes

 

Miles Davis & Quincy Jones: Live at Montreux (1993)

Miles Davis & Quincy Jones: Live at Montreux

8.2

Video

conductor

1993

 

Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, and Don Mitchell in The Return of Ironside (1993)

The Return of Ironside

7.0

TV Movie

composer: original theme

1993

 

Quincy Jones: Back on the Block (1990)

Quincy Jones: Back on the Block

Music Video

song producer

1990

 

Now You See It (1989)

Now You See It

TV Series

composer: theme "Chump Change"

1989

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Man in the Mirror (1988)

Michael Jackson: Man in the Mirror

8.1

Music Video

music producer

1988

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Bad (1987)

Michael Jackson: Bad

7.8

Music Video

musical supervisor: original dramatic music

1987

 

Fever Pitch (1985)

Fever Pitch

4.2

executive music producer

1985

 

USA for Africa: We Are the World (1985)

USA for Africa: We Are the World

7.5

Music Video

conducted by

produced by

1985

 

Rebecca De Mornay and Michael O'Keefe in The Slugger's Wife (1985)

The Slugger's Wife

4.4

executive music producer

1985

 

Fast Forward (1985)

Fast Forward

5.6

executive music producer

1985

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Beat It (1983)

Michael Jackson: Beat It

8.5

Music Video

produced by

rhythm arrangement (uncredited)

1983

 

Goldie Hawn and Burt Reynolds in Best Friends (1982)

Best Friends

5.5

music producer (uncredited)

1982

 

Redd Foxx in Sanford (1980)

Sanford

6.7

TV Series

composer: theme music

composer: main theme

1980–1981

26 episodes

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Rock with You (1979)

Michael Jackson: Rock with You

7.3

Music Video

music producer

1979

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (1979)

Michael Jackson: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

7.6

Music Video

produced by

1979

 

Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Ted Ross, and Nipsey Russell in The Wiz (1978)

The Wiz

5.6

associate conductor

music arranger

music supervisor ...

1978

 

Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson in Sanford and Son (1972)

Sanford and Son

7.9

TV Series

composer: theme music "Street Beater"

1972–1977

135 episodes

 

Raymond Burr and Barbara Sigel in Ironside (1967)

Ironside

6.9

TV Series

composer: theme music

1967–1975

187 episodes

 

Jack Narz and Johnny Olson in Now You See It (1974)

Now You See It

7.9

TV Series

theme music composer

composer: Chump Change (uncredited)

1974–1975

307 episodes

 

Richard Widmark in Madigan (1972)

Madigan

7.2

TV Series

composer: "Wednesday Mystery Movie" theme

1972–1973

6 episodes

 

Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly (1973)

Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly

9.2

TV Special

musical director

1973

 

George Peppard in Banacek (1972)

Banacek

7.7

TV Series

composer: "Wednesday Mystery Movie" theme

1972–1973

8 episodes

 

Cool Million (1972)

Cool Million

7.2

TV Series

composer: "Wednesday Mystery Movie" theme

1972

4 episodes

 

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969)

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

6.9

TV Series

composer: theme music "Ironside"

1972

1 episode

 

The New Bill Cosby Show (1972)

The New Bill Cosby Show

6.0

TV Series

musical director

1972

2 episodes

 

Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques in Come Back Charleston Blue (1972)

Come Back Charleston Blue

6.4

music supervisor

1972

 

Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, and Paul Sand in The Hot Rock (1972)

The Hot Rock

6.8

conductor

music arranger

music producer (uncredited)

1972

 

Killer by Night (1972)

Killer by Night

5.8

TV Movie

conductor

orchestrator (uncredited)

1972

 

Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty in $ (1971)

$

6.3

conductor

music arranger

music producer (uncredited)

1971

 

Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster, and George Spell in Man and Boy (1971)

Man and Boy

5.5

music supervisor

1971

 

Sean Connery in The Anderson Tapes (1971)

The Anderson Tapes

6.4

conductor

1971

 

The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971)

The 43rd Annual Academy Awards

6.3

TV Special

musical director

1971

 

Sidney Poitier in They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

6.0

conductor (uncredited)

1970

 

Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow in John and Mary (1969)

John and Mary

6.5

conductor

music producer (uncredited)

1969

 

Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Omar Sharif, Ted Cassidy, Julie Newmar, Camilla Sparv, and Keenan Wynn in Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Mackenna's Gold

6.7

conductor (uncredited)

1969

 

Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Jim Brown, Jack Klugman, Julie Harris, and Warren Oates in The Split (1968)

The Split

6.0

conductor (uncredited)

1968

 

Sidney Poitier in For Love of Ivy (1968)

For Love of Ivy

6.2

conductor (uncredited)

1968

 

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

A Dandy in Aspic

6.2

conductor (uncredited)

1968

 

Robert Blake and Scott Wilson in In Cold Blood (1967)

In Cold Blood

7.9

conductor (uncredited)

1967

 

Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

In the Heat of the Night

7.9

conductor

orchestrator

score arranger (uncredited)

1967

 

Jill St. John, Robert Wagner, Susan Clark, and Anjanette Comer in Banning (1967)

Banning

5.7

orchestrator (uncredited)

1967

 

Petula Clark at the Talk of the Town

TV Movie

musical arrangements

1967

 

ABC Stage 67 (1966)

ABC Stage 67

7.5

TV Series

musical director

1967

1 episode

 

Janet Margolin and Reni Santoni in Enter Laughing (1967)

Enter Laughing

6.3

conductor (uncredited)

1967

 

The Deadly Affair (1967)

The Deadly Affair

6.7

conductor (uncredited)

1967

 

The Swinger (1966)

The Swinger

5.3

arranger (uncredited)

1966

 

Anne Bancroft and Sidney Poitier in The Slender Thread (1965)

The Slender Thread

7.0

conductor (uncredited)

1965

 

Gregory Peck, Walter Matthau, and Diane Baker in Mirage (1965)

Mirage

7.2

conductor (uncredited)

1965

 

The Pawnbroker (1964)

The Pawnbroker

7.6

conductor

orchestrator (uncredited)

1964

 

Producer

Painted Down: Breaking Bones, Breaking Barriers

executive producer

Post-production

 

Taraji P. Henson, Fantasia Barrino, and Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple (2023)

The Color Purple

6.8

producer (p.g.a.)

2023

 

They All Came Out to Montreux (2023)

They All Came Out to Montreux

7.7

TV Mini Series

executive producer (2021)

2023

 

King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones (2022)

King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones

9.1

executive producer

2022

 

Jabari Banks, Jimmy Akingbola, Cassandra Freeman, Coco Jones, Akira Akbar, and Olly Sholotan in Bel-Air (2022)

Bel-Air

6.4

TV Series

executive producer

2022

6 episodes

 

Ramon Gutiérrez in Fandango at the Wall (2020)

Fandango at the Wall

8.8

executive producer

2020

 

Feel Rich: Health Is the New Wealth (2017)

Feel Rich: Health Is the New Wealth

6.3

executive producer

2017

 

Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America (2017)

Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America

8.5

TV Special

executive producer

2017

 

Keep on Keepin' On (2014)

Keep on Keepin' On

7.7

producer

2014

 

Warrior

Video

executive producer

2013

 

Artists for Haiti: We Are the World 25 for Haiti (2010)

Artists for Haiti: We Are the World 25 for Haiti

6.7

Music Video

producer

2010

 

Alex Borstein, Michael McDonald, Will Sasso, and Debra Wilson in Mad TV (1995)

Mad TV

7.2

TV Series

executive producer

1997–2009

215 episodes

 

The 50th Annual Grammy Awards (2008)

The 50th Annual Grammy Awards

6.7

TV Special

producer

2008

 

Star Camp (2007)

Star Camp

7.3

TV Series

executive producer (2007)

2007

 

Rockin' the Corps: An American Thank You (2005)

Rockin' the Corps: An American Thank You

6.3

executive producer

2005

 

Halle Berry in Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

6.4

TV Movie

co-executive producer

2005

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Number Ones (2003)

Michael Jackson: Number Ones

8.6

Video

producer (segment Bad)

2003

 

Rose McGowan in Vacuums (2003)

Vacuums

5.3

executive producer

2003

 

Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel (2002)

Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel

7.7

executive producer

2002

 

Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America (2001)

Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America

7.5

TV Series

executive producer

2001

5 episodes

 

Dominique Swain, Busy Philipps, and Keri Lynn Pratt in The Smokers (2000)

The Smokers

2.9

executive producer

2000

 

America's Millennium

8.9

TV Special

executive producer

1999

 

LL Cool J, Alfonso Ribeiro, Maia Campbell, and Kim Wayans in In the House (1995)

In the House

6.9

TV Series

executive producer

1995–1999

76 episodes

 

Passing Glory (1999)

Passing Glory

6.6

TV Movie

executive producer

1999

 

Vibe

5.8

TV Series

executive producer

1997–1998

28 episodes

 

Ray J and Shaquille O'Neal in Steel (1997)

Steel

3.0

producer (produced by)

1997

 

Tim Conlon in Lost on Earth (1997)

Lost on Earth

8.1

TV Series

executive producer

1997

6 episodes

 

Brooms (1996)

Brooms

7.2

Short

executive producer

1996

 

Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

7.9

TV Series

executive producer

1990–1996

148 episodes

 

The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996)

The 68th Annual Academy Awards

5.9

TV Special

executive producer

1996

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits - HIStory (1995)

Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits - HIStory

8.6

Video

producer (segment Bad)

1995

 

The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995)

The History of Rock 'n' Roll

8.2

TV Mini Series

executive producer

1995

10 episodes

 

On Trial

TV Movie

executive producer

1994

 

Celebration of a Life: Steven J. Ross Chairman of Time Warner

TV Movie

executive producer

1993

 

Charlene

A Cool Like That Christmas

6.5

TV Movie

executive producer

1993

 

Miles Davis & Quincy Jones: Live at Montreux (1993)

Miles Davis & Quincy Jones: Live at Montreux

8.2

Video

executive producer

1993

 

An American Reunion: The People's Inaugural Celebration (1993)

An American Reunion: The People's Inaugural Celebration

TV Movie

producer

1993

 

The Jesse Jackson Show

TV Series

executive producer

1991

1 episode

 

Stalingrad (1990)

Stalingrad

6.9

producer

1990

 

Livin' Large (1989)

Livin' Large

TV Movie

executive producer

1989

 

Barbra Streisand & Don Johnson: Till I Loved You

8.5

Music Video

producer

1988

 

Heart and Soul

8.4

TV Movie

co-executive producer

1988

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Man in the Mirror (1988)

Michael Jackson: Man in the Mirror

8.1

Music Video

producer

1988

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Bad (1987)

Michael Jackson: Bad

7.8

Music Video

producer

1987

 

Frank Sinatra in Frank Sinatra: Portrait of an Album (1985)

Frank Sinatra: Portrait of an Album

8.3

Video

executive producer

1985

 

The Color Purple (1985)

The Color Purple

7.7

producer

1985

 

USA for Africa: We Are the World (1985)

USA for Africa: We Are the World

7.5

Music Video

producer

1985

 

Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson: Beat It (1983)

Michael Jackson: Beat It

8.5

Music Video

producer

1983

 

Louis Johnson, Brothers Johnson, and George Johnson in The Brothers Johnson: Stomp! (1980)

The Brothers Johnson: Stomp!

Music Video

producer

1980

 

Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly (1973)

Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly

9.2

TV Special

producer

1973

 

Composer

Lola (2024)

Lola

3.8

Composer

2024

 

Electric Six: Ya Mo B There

5.0

Music Video

Composer (uncredited)

2021

 

Santiago Reveco Lepe's Angry German Kid (2019)

Santiago Reveco Lepe's Angry German Kid

TV Series

Composer

2020

1 episode

 

-M- & Quincy Jones Orchestra - Wanne Be Startin' Somethin' (Live @ Montreux)

Music Video

Composer

2019

 

Don Caron in Something New (2019)

Something New

Music Video

Composer

2019

 

Donna Summer in Donna Summer: Love is in Control - Finger on the Trigger - Chromeo & Oliver Remix (2013)

Donna Summer: Love is in Control - Finger on the Trigger - Chromeo & Oliver Remix

Music Video

Composer

2013

 

Mini Adventures

6.0

Video

Composer

2009

 

Kanye West Feat. T-Pain: Good Life (2007)

Kanye West Feat. T-Pain: Good Life

7.0

Music Video

Composer

2007

 

50 Cent in Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

5.5

Composer

2005

 

Ludacris: Number One Spot/The Potion

7.6

Music Video

Composer

2005

 

The Making of 'The Italian Job'

6.7

Video

Composer

2003

 

Cultivating a Classic: The Making of 'The Color Purple' (2003)

Cultivating a Classic: The Making of 'The Color Purple'

5.8

Video

Composer

2003

 

Conversations with the Ancestors: 'the Color Purple' from Book to Screen (2003)

Conversations with the Ancestors: 'the Color Purple' from Book to Screen

5.9

Video

Composer

2003

 

The Color Purple: The 'Musical' (2003)

The Color Purple: The 'Musical'

6.0

Video

Composer

2003

 

A Collaboration of Spirits: Casting and Acting 'the Color Purple' (2003)

A Collaboration of Spirits: Casting and Acting 'the Color Purple'

5.5

Video

Composer

2003

 

Sheena Easton: Love is in Control

Music Video

Composer

2001

 

Tupac Shakur and K-Ci Hailey in 2pac Feat. K-Ci & JoJo: How Do U Want It, Live (1996)

2pac Feat. K-Ci & JoJo: How Do U Want It, Live

8.1

Music Video

Composer

1996

 

Tupac Shakur in 2Pac feat. K-Ci & JoJo: How Do U Want It (1996)

2Pac feat. K-Ci & JoJo: How Do U Want It

8.0

Music Video

Composer

1996

 

Quincy Jones on Jazz

Video

Composer

1994

 

Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990)

Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones

6.0

Composer

1990

 

Quincy Jones: Back on the Block (1990)

Quincy Jones: Back on the Block

Music Video

Composer

1990

 

Quincy Jones: The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite) (1990)

Quincy Jones: The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)

7.3

Music Video

Composer

1990

 

The Color Purple (1985)

The Color Purple

7.7

Composer

1985

 

James Ingram & Michael McDonald: Yah Mo B There (1984)

James Ingram & Michael McDonald: Yah Mo B There

6.6

Music Video

Composer

1984

 

Donna Summer in Donna Summer: Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) (1982)

Donna Summer: Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)

6.5

Music Video

Composer

1982

 

Diana Ross in Wiz on Down the Road (1978)

Wiz on Down the Road

6.6

Short

Composer

1978

 

LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., John Amos, Maya Angelou, Thalmus Rasulala, Madge Sinclair, Leslie Uggams, and Ben Vereen in Roots (1977)

Roots

8.4

TV Mini Series

Composer

1977

2 episodes

 

A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle

TV Special

Composer

1973

 

Yao of the Jungle (1972)

Yao of the Jungle

Composer

1972

 

Dig (1972)

Dig

7.0

Short

Composer

1972

 

The Getaway (1972)

The Getaway

7.3

Composer

1972

 

The New Centurions (1972)

The New Centurions

7.0

Composer (music by)

1972

 

Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, and Paul Sand in The Hot Rock (1972)

The Hot Rock

6.8

Composer

1972

 

Killer by Night (1972)

Killer by Night

5.8

TV Movie

Composer

1972

 

Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty in $ (1971)

$

6.3

Composer

1971

 

Honky (1971)

Honky

5.1

Composer

1971

 

Eggs

6.7

Short

Composer

1971

 

Sean Connery in The Anderson Tapes (1971)

The Anderson Tapes

6.4

Composer

1971

 

Sidney Poitier and Beverly Todd in Brother John (1971)

Brother John

6.4

Composer (music by)

1971

 

The Bill Cosby Show (1969)

The Bill Cosby Show

6.1

TV Series

Composer

1969–1971

52 episodes

 

The Bill Cosby Special, or?

4.3

TV Special

Composer

1971

 

Sidney Poitier in They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

6.0

Composer

1970

 

Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis in The Out of Towners (1970)

The Out of Towners

7.0

Composer (music)

1970

 

Up Your Teddy Bear (1970)

Up Your Teddy Bear

3.6

Composer

1970

 

The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)

The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

5.1

Composer

1970

 

Of Men and Demons (1969)

Of Men and Demons

6.2

Short

Composer

1969

 

Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, and Walter Matthau in Cactus Flower (1969)

Cactus Flower

7.2

Composer

1969

 

Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow in John and Mary (1969)

John and Mary

6.5

Composer

1969

 

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

6.7

Composer

1969

 

The Lost Man (1969)

The Lost Man

6.0

Composer

1969

 

The Italian Job (1969)

The Italian Job

7.2

Composer

1969

 

Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Omar Sharif, Ted Cassidy, Julie Newmar, Camilla Sparv, and Keenan Wynn in Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Mackenna's Gold

6.7

Composer (music composed by)

1969

 

Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Jim Brown, Jack Klugman, Julie Harris, and Warren Oates in The Split (1968)

The Split

6.0

Composer

1968

 

Split Second to an Epitaph

8.2

TV Movie

Composer

1968

 

The Hell with Heroes (1968)

The Hell with Heroes

5.7

Composer

1968

 

Sidney Poitier in For Love of Ivy (1968)

For Love of Ivy

6.2

Composer

1968

 

Michael J. Pollard in Jigsaw (1968)

Jigsaw

5.8

Composer

1968

 

Jack Lord in The Counterfeit Killer (1968)

The Counterfeit Killer

4.8

Composer

1968

 

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

A Dandy in Aspic

6.2

Composer

1968

 

Raymond Burr and Barbara Sigel in Ironside (1967)

Ironside

6.9

TV Series

Composer

1967–1968

12 episodes

 

The Pickle Brothers

5.5

TV Movie

Composer

1967

 

Robert Blake and Scott Wilson in In Cold Blood (1967)

In Cold Blood

7.9

Composer

1967

 

Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

In the Heat of the Night

7.9

Composer

1967

 

Jill St. John, Robert Wagner, Susan Clark, and Anjanette Comer in Banning (1967)

Banning

5.7

Composer

1967

 

Hey, Landlord (1966)

Hey, Landlord

7.3

TV Series

Composer

1966–1967

7 episodes

 

Ironside (1967)

Ironside

7.5

TV Movie

Composer

1967

 

Janet Margolin and Reni Santoni in Enter Laughing (1967)

Enter Laughing

6.3

Composer

1967

 

The Deadly Affair (1967)

The Deadly Affair

6.7

Composer

1967

 

Walk Don't Run (1966)

Walk Don't Run

6.6

Composer

1966

 

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

7.4

TV Series

Composer

1966

1 episode

 

Anne Bancroft and Sidney Poitier in The Slender Thread (1965)

The Slender Thread

7.0

Composer (music)

1965

 

Gregory Peck, Walter Matthau, and Diane Baker in Mirage (1965)

Mirage

7.2

Composer

1965

 

The Pawnbroker (1964)

The Pawnbroker

7.6

Composer

1964

 

Pojken i trädet (1961)

Pojken i trädet

6.4

Composer

1961