However, he left his studies after receiving an offer to tour as a trumpeter, arranger, and pianist with bandleader Lionel Hampton and embarked on his professional career. Later, he went on to study music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston but dropped out so that he could perform with the bandleader Lionel Hampton. In 1951, he passed out from the Seattle University, where he studied alongside Clint Eastwood.
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Regarding Quincy's academic qualification, he started studying at Garfield High School, Seattle, in 1943 where he learned how to play the trumpet and discovered arranging. His father divorced his mother and married Elvera Jones, who already had three children of her own named Waymond, Theresa, and Katherine.
He has a younger brother named Lloyd W Jones who was an engineer for the Seattle television station KOMO-TV until his death in 1998. Jones is the son of mother, Sarah Frances, a bank officer and apartment complex manager, and father, Quincy Delight Jones, a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky. His race is white and his present age is 88 which he recently celebrated in the March of 2021. He grabs American nationality and belongs to African-American ethnic background as he is of distant English, Scottish, and Welsh roots. His parents gave him birth with the real name of Quincy Delight Jones Jr. Quincy Jones took birth on 14th March 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, the U.S. Jones was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame as a "foundational inductee" in Early Life
Additionally, he is the founder of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, a nonprofit organization that built more than 100 homes in South Africa and which aims to connect youths with technology, education, culture, and music. As well, he has also published his autobiography "Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones" in 2001. He was promoted as vice-president of Mercury, becoming the first African American to hold the position in 1961. His debut as a film producer, 1985's "The Color Purple" received 11 Oscar nominations that year, including one for Jones' score. Quincy is a film and television producer too as he produced his own sketch comedy show, FOX's "MADtv", which ran from 1995 to 2009. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He is also best known for producing multiple albums by the great Michael Jackson, including 1982's "Thriller" and 1987's "Bad". He is famous for being the first African-American, along with Bob Russell, who got nominated for an "Academy Award for Best Original Song", for their song titled "The Eyes of Love. An American American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, and arranger, Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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