Fuck, man, I thought I was gonna die. You gotta make up a story she's gonna believe at 5:30 in the morning. Meet Quincy Jones' 7 Kids Who Are All Talented and Successful Get out of here. Quincy has also enjoyed a bustling private life: Hes been married three times and has seven children between five women. Well, I missed the trumpet.". And I know his mother, Afeni, who was a pain in the ass. By this point, Jones was already very successfulas an arranger, as a solo artist, as a composer for movies and TVbut he'd first made his name as a trumpet player. At the age of 15, Jolie began her modeling career and was hired. Cosby Jesus, he says, and moves on without further comment. Michael was scared to deathhe thought there was some voodoo in there. The Oscar was awarded in 1994 for his humanitarian work. The second time Quincy Jones sidestepped fate came in 1974, when he was 41. Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra. They want us to take over the estate now, my son and I. "No. Truman Capote. So we called each other Leroy till the day he died.". (10). (2) I didn't have a chance. "Oh, hell no. Quincy Jones, in full Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., byname "Q", (born March 14, 1933, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American musical performer, producer, arranger, and composer whose work encompasses virtually all forms of popular music. Oh baby! She was a bitch, man. That's why the second one had blue eyes." "The funniest thing you ever saw in your life. In all kinds of ways. Peggy Lipton - Death, Daughter & Quincy Jones - Biography Aretha, 12. When Jones had a breakdown in the mid-1980s, Brando sent him to his private island in Tahiti to recalibrate and recover. He had learned the trumpet, taught himself arranging, and played with every band he could. He always used to say, 'Quincy, it's by the head, not the bed. Even if, at home, he was facing new challenges: "My stepmother was like Precious. And that's the most incredible meeting I've ever had in my life. "I'll write music," he says. says Jones, and the star he is referring to is Prince. What do you think Michael's greatness was? The front half of the right side, we call them the holy rollers. "So we invited [Prince] over to Michael's house at Hayvenhurst. Quincy was first married to actress Jeri Caldwell, from 1957 to 1966. "Fucking insane," he says. That's where we bought our dope. Alcohol. So [Marlon] says, 'You go on around the back of the house, turn the motor off on the car, and let it slide down the hill. ", "Yeah, but I came up with Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra, man. "We were, you know, 7 years old. "I got 22 girlfriends.". I was in Dean Martin's studio at the Warner Bros. lot, writing music for Sinatra at the Sands, and I got locked in for the weekend. And when the rest of the city is fully asleep, that's when Quincy Jones, three months short of his 85th birthday, will really get to work. Prince. And he went back into the other room and said, 'I didn't know Quincy Jones was a Negro.' Then Janet went by. One of these was part of the National GuardJones lied and said that he was 18 so that he could join. He met his rst wife, Jeri Caldwell, in high school. "It was just very obvious what the hell happenedmade a damn fool out of himself. She didn't like me being in pop music. Buzz Aldrin. Every day. The first record I did with Dinah WashingtonI was 20 years old or somethingwas 'I Love My Trombone-Playing Daddy with His Big Long Slidin' Thing.' You need a drink or anything?". Plus, he has worked with some of the biggest names of all time, such as Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra. He'd get drunk, and Jilly, his right-hand guy, stone gangster, would get behind him and break the guy's ribs. Jeri hit on me first. (14). 27. I really don't. Jones was drawn to gang life as a child. ", One of his most famous critics was the newly famous Tupac Shakur, who said in a 1993 interview with The Source, "Quincy Jones is disgusting. Actress Jeri Caldwell and Quincy Jones were married between 1957 and 1966 and welcomed one child, a daughter named Jolie, together. But she was not well. I dont see you ghting for your race. "That's the higher power. Jones met Charles in Seattle when Jones was 14 and Charles was 16; he was 25 when he met Sinatra, and worked as arranger on some of his most famous records. Born and raised in The Bronx, Jolie Jones' husband, Stewart Levine, began his lifelong musical journey at the young age of . He was the dope dealer. A brain aneurysm. It was a terrible way to live, you know. 14. 2. His pastashit!". That's what you wanted to do so you could protect yourself. Quincy was co-directed by his actor daughter Rashida Jones and documentarian Alan Hicks and is arranged as superbly as one of Jones's scores. I said, 'Motherfucker, you don't have to pay me back.' And a very special human being. "Every day I think about it. Methedrine. That's for sure.". Still, I wonder if she regretted being in all of that. Fucking South Side of Chicago, they don't play, man. Man. That's the way it works. He produced Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" album, the album's success made Jones the . I mean, when you're hungry. 13. PleaseI worked with everybody in the fucking world in music.". He was there. "Oh yeah. Quincy Jones - Biography - IMDb ", "Yeah. I ended up with two actresses, Peggy Lipton and Nastassja Kinski (9), and a superstar model. A third time Quincy Jones's life might have come to a premature halt: Barely a few hundred yards away from where we sit tonight, on a nearby hillside, is a house with a troubled history. Snoopy (25) looking at him like he's crazy. "I'm writing Mandarin, writing Arabic, writing katakana in Japan. Miles (5) said the same thing, on a different occasion, at the Chateau Marmont. Very much. Do what you want to do, and nobody can tell you what to do. "Je ne regrette rien de tout. She voiced one of the characters in the adventure-fantasy film 'The Wiz.' And then I fell down five flights of stairs, and I said, 'That ain't gonna work.' To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, "I feel like I'm just starting," Quincy Jones explains as he slowly takes a seat in the grand living room of his hilltop Bel-Air mansion, a wide arc of nighttime Los Angeles visible through the windows in front of him. Shit. Some people consider her the great songwriter of our age. I guess you're supposed to be the one to slow it down. At 18, he was readyor as ready as one could be: "The band bus with Lionel Hampton got 33 people on it. He was trying to get the one that he could sell the most, and Ed Snowden was the big topic then. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings by her father's other relationships. So did I hear that they've said to you that you could live until 120? They were good-looking guys, they had all the girls they wanted, and they showed you how to deal with it. "We used to go to Fort Lewis and Fort Lawton in the summertime," he says, "and you'd smell the racism. It was unbelievable, man. (When I ask to use the bathroom, Jones replies, I got 13when youre 84, you gotta take no chances.), "Good. And it was not going well, that's for sure. He won the Emmy for the soundtrack to Roots and the Tony for the revival of the musical The Color Purple. What a guy. What did he think of what Prince had done onstage that night? Was told not to marry actresses or singers. That's how he went to prison.". Get to a place where you see the access is close to the shore, and just grab them by the tail. In more recent times, Jones has hung out with Aldrin: Hes a wild motherfucker., "Yeah, 1969. And then in the first proper meeting you had in Hollywood, the producer walked in, saw you, and walked out again? His idols are Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, James Brown, all of that. Isn't that sacrilegious, telling the Pope he has pimp shoes? "Hell no!" It's also a testament to his unique gift for not just knowing people but also sharing unforgettable moments with them. Traveling bands? Nanotechnology, and the genome breakthrough at Cal State, that's what the Nobel guys said is gonna allow it. I ain't gonna lie. Jones is a doting father to seven children, Rashida, Kidada, Kenya, Quincy, Jolie Levie, Martina, and Rachel. 16. Or that's what you believed. Jolie Jones Levine (daughter with Jeri Caldwell) Date of Birth: October 4, 1954. "Prince told Michael he'd kill him if he showed it to anybody," Jones explains, but one way or another, time-coded raw footage of what took place that night eventually surfaced. You ever see Black Orpheus? Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the younger daughter of media mogul, producer, and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. Seven years old, I went to the wrong neighborhood, I didn't know the codes and stuff. "Yeah, he showed up in the back of a car with a brother who was managing him, and he was like a deer in the headlights. I've seen him shooting in his testicles, man. After his divorce in 1974 from Martina's mom, he married Peggy Lipton the day after the divorce. I appreciate all of it. We used to just fuck upooh-l-l!" He came in and he had an overcoat on, and he had a big white box labeled camille. Al . Family of multi-award winning legend Quincy Jones: Siblings And 7 Kids I've been a fan of hers since Triumph of the Will. "These motherfuckers are so talented. It's a life punctuated by so many disparate encounters and achievements and circumstances that it is hard to believe they are the experiences of a single man. The boozers here and the junkies there. Here's what you've got to understand: The interracial thing was part of a revolution, too, because back in the '40s and stuff, they would say, 'You can't mess with a white man's money. Don't mess with his women.' Ray had me on heroin for five months. And then Marlon looked back over and the guy was staring at him, right? Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Kidada Jones Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life of Actress She wasn't into it. Because we all used to hang out together. He nods. He'd just done A Streetcar Named Desire, and he was going up to Harlem that night. "A little raggedy-ass car. And red beans and rice. ", "Michael's parrot. And it's the best thing I ever did. Or he'll refer to the time Steven Spielberg showed him the first abandoned prototype for E.T. Got to challenge the brain. ". She grew up in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Reached up and pulled my friend, and his head fell off. I mean, that woman was one of the greatest filmmakers that ever lived. "I think it had a lot to do with it. He was a wild dude, man.". He was fucked-up with absinthe all the time. 'Unbelievable, man. How could you forgive someone who could say that? And he did, and the 32 clubs gave him the licenses back.