Ellise Shafer Rashida Jones wrote an emotional tribute to her father, music legend Quincy Jones, who died on Sunday night at the age of 91.
In an Instagram post, she called him a “giant. An icon. A culture shifter. A genius.” “My dad was nocturnal his whole adult life,” she wrote. “He kept ‘jazz hours’ starting in high school and never looked back.
When I was little, I would wake up in the middle of the night to search for him. Undoubtedly, he would be somewhere in the house, composing (old school, with a pen and sheet music).
He would never send me back to bed. He would smile and bring me into his arms while he continued to work…there was no safer place in the world for me.
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