Quincy Jones has died at 91. The prolific music producer and arranger had an incalculable impact on American popular music. |
| Jones exemplified the producer and arranger as star. He elevated the voices of dozens of entertainers — most indelibly Michael Jackson, but also Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin — with his unsurpassed artistry in combining jazz, rhythm-and-blues and classical orchestration. |
I was at an event in Las Vegas there was this long line of people to greet a man sitting in one of those hanging tear drop chairs, they would go up and it looked like "kiss the ring" have a few moments and leave. Odd I thought but it was Las Vegas after all. Later in the evening HB and I were in the buffet line and Mr. Jones asked to "cut" the line, I had no problem we talked a bit about the event that brought both of us to Vegas, he filled his plate and went back to his "area" After HB and I sat down my family was all over us what, how did we meet Quincy Jones? In my brief 2 minutes with him he was a nice, kind man with good things to say. Why his "handlers" let him get his own meal I have no idea. But that is my brief run in with Mr. Jones.
