Film Music Reporter

Quincy Jones passed away yesterday at age 91 at his home in Bel Air. The composer, songwriter and record producer wrote numerous scores and songs for film over a six decade spanning-career. His film scoring credits include Richard Brooks’ In Cold Blood, Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz and Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple, for all of which he received Academy Award nominations, as well as Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night, Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway and Peter Collinson’s The Italian Job. In 1967, he was the first Black composer to be nominated in the Original Song category for The Eyes of Love from Banning. He also received two more Oscar nominations in the Original Song category for the title song from 1969’s For Love of Ivy andMiss Celie’s Blues (Sister) from The Color Purple, for which he also received a nomination in the Best Picture category as a producer. He also was recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1994 and was set to receive an Honorary Oscar at this year’s Governors Awards event on November 17. He also received an Emmy Award for his music for the 1977 classic mini-series Roots. Jones is survived by six daughters, a son and two sisters.