Talk:Quincy Jones/Archive 1
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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
Henry Louis Gates of Harvard delved into much of Jones' family's history.I was wondring how quency jones was inspired to play music
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)
Was told my change was not constructive... had actually removed an offensive and unnecessary racial characterization. I thought it was constructive.
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 pageI 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)
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
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)
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. ]
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)
hiits delight with one t — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.225.75.58 (talk) 21:03, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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)
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
"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)
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)
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)
don't know if this is relevant, but Jones still has a house in Paris (he has in fact had a residence in France for 5 decades). I don't know how often he visits his parisian place every year, but those (such as my brother) who live nearby, "frequently" see him in the local streets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.45.216.5 (talk) 07:50, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I've heard rumours that Quincy Jones helped 50 Cent with some songs/albums. Is this true? -- MISTER ALCOHOL T C 03:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
This image just popped up. Is it necessary for the Quincy Jones article? Please feel free to reply. -- MISTER ALCOHOL T C 03:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
It has more than one person in the picture.
Can't see any reason to exclude this image from the article, but as Elipongo said, putting it in the infobox would require little cropping, otherwise using it in the Awards or a similar section would make sense. While we're at it, I'd actually question why the image in the infobox is even in the article - its an amateur photo which makes the poor guy look like someone caught him in the middle of flapping his arms. I think the infobox could quickly be improved, maybe with Image:Quincy Jones 2008.jpg unless someone wants to crop one of the other images for this purpose? (or if there's a consensus on which one to crop, I would be happy to do that part) Shell babelfish 07:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Everybody's opinions are given due weight, please do not tell us to "never mind" what others have said. I'm not sure what you object to about my edit per se other than it having put these images into the article. Please allow me to explain why I think these images belong in this article:
I thank you for your thoughts on other places these images might be useful, but now that I have given a detailed rationale why I put them here, could you please actually give a reason why these images shouldn't be used in this article? Thank you. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 00:22, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Adding info on the Quincy Jones Foundation would be nice. He is very philanthropic —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.207.140 (talk) 22:42, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
"He is best known as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson"
Really? I would've thought he was best known for his film scores. Jh39 (talk) 17:39, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
I was a bit surprised to see the Ray Charles template appended to the end of this Quincy Jones article. The article itself does not go into much detail about the friendship and significant career collaborations of these two giants. I guess I would expect to see more about Ray Charles in the article but adding the Ray Charles template (which is mainly a Charles discography) still seems a bit out of place here. Pugetbill (talk) 18:43, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I removed the wiki link to Somerset Academy as it links to a disambiguation page. Does anyone know which "Somerset Academy" Jones attended? Is it the one in Athens, Maine? If not, where? and when? I tried searching on the web but virtually every reference to "Quincy Jones" at "Somerset Academy" was taken from this wikipedia article.
I can't find an independent source for this info on the web but I hope someone can find it (in his autobiography or other published document) and add the reference citation to this Wikipedia article. Pugetbill (talk) 22:02, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I can't find any reference of Quincy Jones having worked with the Beatles, let alone having produced Yellow Submarine, as stated in the first paragraph of this article.Even the Wikipedia articles related to the movie, soundtrack, remixes, etc of Yellow Submarine, all credit George Martin as producer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acoleasa (talk • contribs) 23:01, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
that caused him to stop playing horn, c. 1969/70, iirc? 72.228.177.92 (talk) 19:43, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
The article states that Jones became the vice-president of Mercury labels in 1964, whereas his official website dates his promotion to this position in 1961: http://www.quincyjones.com/about-2/about. Which one is accurate?198.73.178.6 (talk) 17:24, 9 August 2012 (UTC) Brady S.
Quincy co founded an online site for teaching people to play music. Would this be relevant to add to the page? [1] Sushilover boy (talk) 16:43, 12 August 2014 (UTC)