was born in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois on March 14, 1933, to Sarah Frances (died 1999), a bank officer and apartment complex manager, and Quincy Delight Jones, a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.
In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
Burton as the second most Oscar-nominated African American, with seven nominations each. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. In 1971, Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards. In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song " We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia. Jones produced three of popstar Michael Jackson's most successful albums: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 1967 film In Cold Blood, making him the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year. In 1968, Jones became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Eyes of Love" from the film Banning. He moved easily between musical genres, producing pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie in the same time period. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer.
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