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Quincy Jones Launches Initiative to Bring Jazz, Blues and Gospel Awareness Into Schools
Jeremy Helligar Few people in the history of recorded music have had as profound an impact as Quincy Jones. He’s a legendary composer and performer whose work has crossed multiple genres, races and media, a 30-time Grammy winner (including album of the year for 1989’s “Back on the Block”), and the producer of one of pop’s first teen queens, Lesley Gore, and two of the biggest albums of all time, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and “Bad.”With Qwest TV, the streaming channel dedicated to jazz, soul, funk and world music that he launched in 2017, Jones, 87, flexed his power as an educator and bridge-builder while continuing to annihilate racial boundaries in music.
