Quincy Jones, musician and producer who worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and many others, dies aged 91.Jones' publicist, Arnold Robinson, said he "passed away peacefully" on Sunday night at his home in Bel Air."Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones' passing.
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," the family said in a statement.Jones was best known as the producer of Michael Jackson's Thriller album.Over his career that spanned more than 75 years he won 28 Grammy awards and was named as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time magazine.He produced and conducted the recording of the 1985 charity record, We Are The World.He also composed the soundtrack to more than 30 films including Heat of the Night, The Color Purple and The Italian Job.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.