Talk:Quincy Jones
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Reply to: Nesbitt14@hotmail.com.
There is a rumour that Mr. Quincy D. Jones, Jr. stated that his great-grandfather is from Lake City, SC. My name is Kyle S. Nesbitt and my great-grandfather was named Cleveland Jones(1890-1948?) and he was a musician fron that area. His father was named Davis Jones. There are a lot of musicians from this family. There are the Jones Family of Hollywood-Miami, FLA and the Nesbitt's of Lake City, SC. There is also a Jones Family in Scranton, SC, and Mr. Franklin Jones of Rochester, NY. Mr. Jones can contact me at this E-mail address or 212-928-1651 and my address is Kyle S. Nesbitt; 280 Ft. Washington Ave #35; New York, NY 10032-1306. I am not a musician, just part a family full of musicians(mostly piano)and I love family geneology and history.
Thanks:
Kyle S. Nesbitt
[edit] PBS special & Jones' family history
Henry Louis Gates of Harvard delved into much of Jones' family's history.
I was wondring how quency jones was inspired to play music
[edit] Vandalism
Why has Gareth Kegg removed innocuous, factually correct items? Jones is distinctive for working across genres.
Let Kegg explain his vandalism. Does he see a POV issue?
Maybe Kegg believes that I have vandalized the article. The problem lies with Firefox. Firefox lops off the end of edited articles.
I have never had this problem with Firefox before. The Jones article currently abruptly ends at 'My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style of their debut album And Now, the Legacy Begins in 1991. It was a theme for the 1998 soccer World Cup. [1]'. Could you please restore the rest of the article? and sign your comments? Gareth E Kegg 17:13, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reply / Administrators please note: long article issues resulting in temporary lopping off of end of article
You were fortunate not to have this problem with Firefox. Which version are you using? Are you using Windows XP? I had this experience previously with another article. The article restored after a few days. Wikipedia has acknowledged that there are problems with long articles and some browsers. Go to some long sites in Firefox and note wikipedia's note about this problem. It says that they have alerted Google about the matter. (However, google is a search engine, not a browser. The problem is with Wikipedia and browsers.) I repeat: I had this problem previously with another long article. It restored in a few days. I have tried to restore the article. The established article was visible in edit mode. I scroll to the bottom and then click save page I can see it in edit mode, so I suspect that you can see it there too.
You still did not respond to my query : Why did you remove, wholesale an entire PH? Why did you remove comments about the genres of artists that he arranged/ produced? Dogru144 19:07, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
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- I probably inadvertently removed the para and genre comments as i removed the edits by you, which i incorrectly thought were vandalism. Please don't see me as a prig, as i have made many edits to this great page about a true musical genius. I can see the whole old page in edit mode too, but is annoying not to see the whole page now! Anyho, i'm off to listen to Ella and Basie Gareth E Kegg 18:23, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
If you like Quincy Jones, you'd probably also like the Thad Jones (no relation I think) / Mel Lewis big band of the late 60s and early 70s. That band also has a swinging, soul-based sound. Dogru144
[edit] Attention administrators / pages getting lopped off after references added
As noted above, most of the latter part of the article got lopped off after an edit. It remains visible in edit mode. Dear Administrators: Given that the article gets lopped off after a footnote, perhaps could the action of adding a footnote temporarily lop off the article from the public view? That would be unfortunate. After all, wikipedia is trying to bolster its reputation by encouraging documentation through the provision of references. Regardless, I hope you guys resolve this problem and I hope that this tip helps towards that end. Dogru144, 00:36, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Career
The reference to Q and RC meeting in Washington is incorrect - they first met in Seattle. I removed this part of the sentence.
www.raycharles.com has RC referring to them meeting in Seattle [ During my time in Seattle, I met and worked with some musicians who later made names for themselves. There was a fellow named Bumps Blackwell who had a band. As I recall, he hired me to play a gig one night with him. There was a young guy named Quincy Jones in the band. ]
[edit] Middle Name
Is his middle name Delightt or Delight? (I've seen it both ways.) FWIW, Google turns up a similar number of hits for "Quincy Delightt Jones" and "Quincy Delight Jones". Alan smithee 04:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
hi
[edit] Mercury Records era
I think it's fascinating that he had a great deal to do with Lesley Gore's first LP, I'll Cry If I Want To (Mercury MG 20805), which had her first big hits, "It's My Party" and "Judy's Turn to Cry". He apparently wrote the liner notes for that 1963 album. Would it be worth adding a section for "Albums He Has Worked On" to this article somewhere, or to link to such a list that already exists elsewhere?
Typofixer76 03:09, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Better picture?
There has got to be a better picture of the man somewhere out there. I did find one but I am unsure if I can upload it to wikipedia located here [1]. User:Cadsuane Melaidhrin
- Yeah I agree about the photo. The thing is that since there is a free image of him we have to use it until a "better" free image comes along. It stinks, but that is the way it goes. I'd love to see a better image, too. This one is not very flattering. (Mind meal 02:23, 16 June 2007 (UTC))
[edit] BoA - Quincy
"BoA, a popular artist in Japan, released a single called Quincy in 2004 that was a "soul disco" song in homage to his legacy." Quincy / Kono Yo no Shirushi
I would like to know where the source of the statement came from. This song says nothing about Quincy Jones.Dumaka (talk) 16:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] More Grammy Awards
I think that Quincy has many more grammy winning and grammy nominated songs the he is accredited to.For example Kanye West's 2006 single "Good Life" won a grammy for Best Rap Single.Technically this is a win for Quincy,he is also official credited as an writer of the song because the song heavily samples Michael Jacksons "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" which Quincy Jones wrote and produced.The grammys also lists him as one of the writers.Does anyone think that songs such as this one should be included in his award history?
Daverich313 (talk) 22:49, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Honorary Degree
He's going to be receiving an honorary degree from St Louis' Washingto U. on the 16th May at the same time as Phyllis Schlafly, I just couldn't stand on the same stage as her (without boxing gloves). TheresaWilson (talk) 14:53, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
