Quincy Jones production discography
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| Quincy Jones discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 16 |
| Soundtrack albums | 24 |
| Live albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 4 |
Quincy Jones is an American record producer, musical arranger, film composer, impresario, conductor, and trumpeter. Jones has charted 6 singles and 6 albums in the Top 40 and won 4 Platinum Awards and 7 Gold Awards only in the United States.[1] Jones is one of few producers to have number one records in three consecutive decades (1960s, '70s, and '80s).[2][3]
Albums
As leader
| Year | Title | Label | U.S. Chart positions | Certification | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billboard 200 | Jazz Albums | Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums | ||||
| 1955 | Jazz Abroad | EmArcy | - | - | - | |
| 1956 | This Is How I Feel About Jazz | ABC-Paramount | - | - | - | |
| 1957 | Go West, Man! | - | - | - | ||
| 1958 | Quincy's Home Again | Metronome | - | - | - | |
| 1959 | The Birth of a Band! | Mercury | - | 21 | - | |
| The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones | - | - | - | |||
| 1960 | I Dig Dancers | - | - | - | ||
| 1961 | Around the World | - | - | - | ||
| Newport '61 | - | - | - | |||
| The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones Live (in Zurich!) | - | 24 | - | |||
| The Quintessence | impulse! | - | - | - | ||
| 1962 | Big Band Bossa Nova | Mercury | 112 | - | - | |
| 1963 | Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits | - | - | - | ||
| 1964 | Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini | - | - | - | ||
| Golden Boy | - | - | - | |||
| I/We Had a Ball | Limelight | - | - | - | ||
| 1965 | Quincy Plays for Pussycats | Mercury | - | - | - | |
| Quincy's Got a Brand New Bag | - | - | - | |||
| 1969 | Walking in Space | A&M | 56 | 2 | 6 | |
| 1970 | Gula Matari | 63 | 2 | 16 | ||
| 1971 | Smackwater Jack | 56 | 1 | 11 | ||
| 1972 | Ndeda (Compilation) | Mercury | 73 | 12 | - | |
| 1973 | You've Got It Bad Girl | A&M | 94 | 1 | 14 | |
| 1974 | Body Heat | 6 | 1 | 1 |
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| 1975 | Mellow Madness | 16 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 1976 | I Heard That!! | 43 | 1 | 16 | ||
| 1978 | Sounds...and Stuff Like That!! | 15 | 1 | 4 |
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| 1981 | Quincy Jones Live at the Budokan | - | - | - | ||
| The Dude | 10 | 3 | 3 |
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| 1982 | The Best (Compilation) | 122 | 17 | 45 | ||
| 1985 | The Best of Quincy Jones Volume 2 (Compilation) | - | - | - | ||
| 1989 | Back on the Block | Qwest | 9 | 1 | 1 |
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| 1993 | Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux (with Miles Davis) |
Warner Bros. | - | 1 | - | |
| 1995 | Q's Jook Joint | Qwest | 32 | 1 | 6 |
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| 1999 | From Q with Love (Compilation) | Warner Bros. | 72 | 1 | 31 | |
| 2000 | Basie and Beyond (The Quincy Jones/Sammy Nestico Orchestra) |
- | 10 | - | ||
| 2001 | Q - The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones (Compilation) | Rhino | - | - | - | |
| 2004 | The Original Jam Sessions 1969 (with Bill Cosby) |
Concord Jazz | - | 12 | - | |
| 2010 | Q Soul Bossa Nostra | Interscope | 86 | - | 15 | |
Soundtracks
| Year | Title | Label | U.S. Chart positions | Certification | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billboard 200 | Jazz Albums | Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums | ||||
| 1961 | The Boy in the Tree (EP) | Mercury | - | - | - | |
| 1965 | The Pawnbroker | - | - | - | ||
| Mirage | - | - | - | |||
| 1966 | The Slender Thread | - | - | - | ||
| Walk, Don't Run | Mainstream | - | - | - | ||
| 1967 | The Deadly Affair | Verve | - | - | - | |
| Enter Laughing | Liberty | - | - | - | ||
| In the Heat of the Night | United Artists | - | - | - | ||
| In Cold Blood | Colgems | - | - | - | ||
| 1968 | For Love of Ivy | ABC | 192 | - | - | |
| 1969 | Mackenna's Gold | RCA Victor | - | - | - | |
| The Italian Job | Paramount | - | - | - | ||
| The Lost Man | Uni | - | - | - | ||
| Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Bell | - | - | - | ||
| Cactus Flower | - | - | - | |||
| 1970 | John and Mary | A&M | - | - | - | |
| They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | United Artists | - | - | - | ||
| 1971 | $ | Reprise | 173 | - | - | |
| The Anderson Tapes | - | - | - | |||
| 1972 | The Getaway (7") | A&M | - | - | - | |
| 1972 | The Hot Rock | Prophesy | - | - | - | |
| 1977 | Roots | A&M | 21 | 4 | 6 |
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| 1978 | The Wiz | MCA, Motown | 40 | - | 33 | |
| 1985 | The Color Purple | Qwest | - | - | - | |
| 2009 | The Split | Film Score Monthly | - | - | - | |
As sideman
| Date | Artist | Album title | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Lionel Hampton | Oh, Rock! Live | ||
| Clifford Brown | Clifford Brown Big Band in Paris | Prestige | QJ plays trumpet in horn section | |
| 1954 | Dizzy Gillespie | Afro | Norgran | |
| Dizzy and Strings | ||||
| Gigi Gryce | Gigi Gryce's Jazztime Paris, Vol. 1 | Blue Note | ||
| Gigi Gryce's Jazztime Paris, Vol. 2 | ||||
| Art Farmer | The Art Farmer Septet | Prestige | first released on 7" EPs a year before | |
| 1956 | Dizzy Gillespie | World Statesman | Norgran | |
| 1957 | Dizzy in Greece | Verve | ||
| Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band Jazz | American Recording Society | |||
| Thad Jones, Jimmy Jones, Eddie Jones, Jo Jones | The Jones Boys | Period | ||
| 1975 | Lesley Gore | Love Me by Name | ||
| 1983 | James Ingram | It's Your Night | QJ plays electric piano on one track | |
| 1992 | The Isley Brothers | Tracks of Life | Warner Bros. | QJ plays keyboard (plus drum und synth programming) on "Brazilizan Wedding Song (Setembro)" |
| 1995 | Sonny Parker | Complete 1948–1953 | ||
| Lucky Thompson, Gigi Gryce, Art Farmer | Lucky Thompson and Gigi Gryce in Paris | Vogue/RCA Victor | Compilation of live recordings from 1953 (Gryce) and 1956 | |
| Toots Thielemans | Yesterday & Today | |||
| 1998 | Dinah Washington | Dinah Washington with Quincy Jones | ||
| 2005 | Willis "Gator" Jackson | The Remaining Willis Jackson 1951–1959[5] |
As composer, conductor, arranger, producer
| Artist | Album | Year | Label | Producer | Composer | Conductor | Arranger |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cannonball Adderley | Julian "Cannonball" Adderley | 1955 | EmArcy | No | Yes, three tracks | Yes | Yes |
| Herb Alpert | You Smile – The Song Begins | 1974 | A&M | No | No | No | Yes |
| Ray Anthony | Standards | 1954 | Capitol | No | No | No | Yes |
| Louis Armstrong | Louis | 1964 | Mercury | No | No | No | Yes |
| Harry Arnold | Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! | 1958 | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Patti Austin | Every Home Should Have One | 1981 | Qwest | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Patti Austin | 1984 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Benny Bailey | Quincy - Here We Come | 1959 | Metronome | No | Yes | No | No |
| Eddie Barclay | Et Voila! | 1957 | Barclay | No | No | No | Yes |
| Twilight Time | 1960 | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| Count Basie Orchestra | Basie One More Time | 1958 | Roulette | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| String Along with Basie | 1959 | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| Li'l Ol' Groovemaker...Basie! | 1963 | Verve | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| This Time by Basie! | Reprise | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Count Basie Orchestra and Billy Eckstine | Basie and Eckstine, Inc. | 1959 | Roulette | No | No | No | Yes |
| Emily Bear | Diversity | 2013 | Concord Records | Yes | No | No | No |
| Tony Bennett | The Movie Song Album | 1966 | Columbia | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| George Benson | Give Me the Night | 1980 | Qwest | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Brook Benton | There Goes That Song Again | 1961 | Mercury | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Big Maybelle | "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Ocean of Tears”[6] | 1955 | Okeh | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| The Brothers Johnson | Look Out for #1 | 1976 | A&M | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Right on Time | 1977 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Blam! | 1978 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| Light Up the Night | 1980 | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
| Clifford Brown and Art Farmer w/The Swedish All Stars | Memorial, four tracks prev. rel. on two 7" EPs | 1956 | Prestige, orig. on Metronome (1953) | Yes | No | No | Yes, two tracks |
| Ray Brown Orchestra | Harold Robbins Presents Music from The Adventurers | 1970 | Symbolic | Yes | No | No | Yes, three tracks w/Brown |
| David Carroll | Happy Feet | 1964 | Mercury | Yes | No | No | No |
| Diahann Carroll | Diahann Carroll Sings Harold Arlen's Songs | 1956 | Victor | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Betty Carter w/Ray Bryant | Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant | 1955 | Epic | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Betty Carter | Social Call | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Ray Charles | The Great Ray Charles | 1956 | Atlantic | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| The Genius of Ray Charles | 1959 | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| Genius + Soul = Jazz | 1960 | Impulse! | No | No | No | Yes | |
| A Message from the People | 1972 | Tangerine | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Jimmy Cleveland | Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars | 1955 | EmArcy | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sammy Davis Jr. and the Count Basie Orchestra | Our Shining Hour | 1964 | Verve | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Les Double Six | The Double Six Meet Quincy Jones | 1960 | Columbia | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Billy Eckstine | At Basin Street East | 1962 | Mercury | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Don't Worry 'Bout Me | Yes | No | No | No | |||
| The Golden Hits of Billy Eckstine | 1963 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Now Singing In 12 Great Movies | Yes | No | No | No | |||
| The Modern Sound of Mr. B | 1964 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Don Elliot | A Musical Offering by Don Elliot | 1955 | ABC | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Art Farmer | The Art Farmer Septet | 1956 | Prestige | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Last Night When We Were Young | 1958 | ABC-Paramount | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Robert Farnon | The Sensuous Strings of Robert Farnon | 1963 | Philips | Yes | No | No | No |
| Captain from Castile and Other Great Movie Themes | 1964 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Ella Fitzgerald (with Count Basie) | Ella and Basie! | 1963 | Verve | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Aretha Franklin | Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) | 1973 | Atlantic | Yes w/Franklin | No | Yes | Yes |
| Terry Gibbs | Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime | 1963 | Mercury | Yes | No | No | No |
| Dizzy Gillespie | World Statesman | 1956 | Norgran | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Dizzy in Greece | Verve | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| Dizzy on the French Riviera | 1962 | Philips | Yes | No | No | No | |
| New Wave | Yes | No | No | No | |||
| Lesley Gore | I'll Cry If I Want To (with "It's My Party") | 1963 | Mercury | Yes | No | No | No |
| Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts | Yes | No | No | No | |||
| Boys, Boys, Boys | 1964 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Girl Talk | Yes | No | No | No | |||
| My Town, My Guy & Me | 1965 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Lesley Gore Sings All About Love | 1966 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Manos Hadjidakis | Gioconda's Smile | 1965 | Fontana | Yes | No | No | No |
| Donny Hathaway | Come Back Charleston Blue (O.S.T.) | 1972 | ATCO | Yes | No | No | No |
| Lena Horne | Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music | 1981 | Qwest | Yes | No | No | No |
| James Ingram | It's Your Night | 1983 | Yes | Yes, co-comp. "Yah Mo B There" | No | No | |
| Michael Jackson | Off the Wall | 1979 | Epic | Yes (w/Jackson) | No | No | No |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | MCA | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Thriller | Epic | Yes (w/Jackson) | Yes , "P.Y.T." w/J. Ingram | No | No | ||
| Bad | 1987 | Yes w/Jackson | No | No | No | ||
| Milt Jackson | Plenty, Plenty Soul | 1957 | Atlantic | No | Yes, three tracks | No | Yes, three tracks |
| The Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson | 1959 | No | Yes, co-comp. one track | Yes | Yes | ||
| Bob James | Bold Conceptions | 1963 | Mercury | Yes | No | No | No |
| Gene Krupa feat. Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge | Drummer Man Gene Krupa in Highest Hi-Fi | 1956 | Verve | No | No | No | Yes, 8 of 12 tracks |
| Peggy Lee | If You Go | 1961 | Capitol | No | No | Yes, two tracks | Yes |
| Blues Cross Country | 1962 | No | Yes, co-comp. one track | Yes | Yes | ||
| Little Richard | The King of the Gospel Singers | Mercury | Yes | Yes, co-comp. two tracks | Yes | Yes | |
| Terrace Martin | 3ChordFold | 2013 | Akai Music | Yes, co-prod. "Gone" | No | No | No |
| Helen Merrill | Helen Merrill | 1955 | EmArcy | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| James Moody | Moody | 1956 | Prestige | No | No | No | Yes |
| Nana Mouskouri | The Girl from Greece Sings | 1962 | Fontana | Yes | No | No | No |
| Joe Newman | The Happy Cats | 1957 | Coral | No | No | No | Yes, "Buttercup" |
| Billy Preston | I Wrote a Simple Song | 1971 | A&M | No | No | No | Yes, strings and horn arr. |
| Paul Quinichette | Moods | 1954 | Prestige | No | Yes, six comp. | No | Yes |
| Rufus feat. Chaka Khan | Masterjam | 1979 | MCA | Yes | Yes, co-comp. one track | No | No |
| Frank Sinatra with Count Basie | It Might as Well Be Swing | 1964 | Reprise | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Sinatra at the Sands | 1966 | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| L.A. Is My Lady | 1984 | Qwest | Yes | Yes, co-comp. title track | Yes | Yes, co-arr. title track | |
| Sonny Stitt | Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones | 1955 | Roost | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Donna Summer | Donna Summer | 1982 | Geffen | Yes | Yes, co-comp. two tracks | No | Yes, vocals and rhythm arr. |
| Tamia | Tamia | 1998 | Qwest | Yes, co-prod. one track; co-exec. prod. | No | No | No |
| Billy Taylor | My Fair Lady Loves Jazz | 1957 | ABC-Paramount | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Clark Terry | Clark Terry | 1955 | EmArcy | No | Yes, three tracks | No | Yes |
| Various artists | USA for Africa: We Are the World (single) | 1985 | Columbia | Yes w/Michael Omartian | Yes, B-side "Grace" | Yes | No |
| Sarah Vaughan | Vaughan and Violins | 1959 | Mercury | No | Yes, co-comp. one track | Yes | Yes |
| You're Mine You | 1962 | Roulette | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Sassy Swings the Tivoli | 1964 | Mercury | Yes | Yes, "Sassy's Blues" w/Vaughan | No | No | |
| Vaughan with Voices | Yes | No | No | No | |||
| ¡Viva! Vaughan | 1965 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Sarah Vaughan Sings the Mancini Songbook | Yes | No | No | No | |||
| Dinah Washington | For Those in Love | 1955 | EmArcy | No | No | No | Yes |
| The Swingin' Miss "D" | 1957 | No | Yes, "You're Crying" w/lyrics: Leonard Feather | Yes | Yes (exc. three tracks) | ||
| Tears and Laughter | 1962 | Mercury | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| I Wanna Be Loved | No? | Yes, "You're Crying" w/lyrics: Leonard Feather | Yes | Yes | |||
| Julius Watkins | French Horns for My Lady | Philips | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Andy Williams | Under Paris Skies | 1960 | Cadence | No | No | No | Yes |
| The Winans | Decisions | 1987 | Qwest Records | Yes | No | No | No |
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Certification | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US |
US R&B |
US Dance |
US AC |
NZ [7] |
NED [8] |
BEL (FLA) [9] |
GER [10] |
UK [11] | |||
| 1962 | "Soul Bossa Nova" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1970 | "Killer Joe" | 74 | - | - | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1972 | "Money Runner" | 57 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1975 | "Is It Love That We're Missin'?" (w/ The Brothers Johnson) | 70 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1977 | Roots Medley | 57 | - | - | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1978 | "Stuff Like That" | 21 | 1 | - | - | - | 24 | - | - | 34 | |
| 1981 | "Ai No Corrida" (w/ Dune) | 28 | 10 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 28 | 14 | |
| "Just Once" (w/ James Ingram) | 17 | 11 | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| "Razzamatazz" (with Patti Austin) | - | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | ||
| "One Hundred Ways" (with James Ingram) | 14 | 10 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| "Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 52 | ||
| 1989 | "I'll Be Good to You" (with Ray Charles & Chaka Khan) | 18 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 7 | 38 | 34 | 28 | 21 | |
| 1990 | "The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)" (with Al B. Sure, James Ingram, El DeBarge, Barry White) | 31 | 1 | - | 26 | - | 13 | 31 | - | 67 |
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| "Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)" (with Tevin Campbell) | 75 | 1 | - | - | 22 | 21 | - | - | - | ||
| "I Don't Go for That" | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1991 | "Wee B. Dooinit" | - | 83 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1995 | "You Put a Move on My Heart" | 98 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1996 | "Stomp" | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 28 | |
| "Slow Jams" (w/ Babyface, Tamia, Portrait, Barry White) | 68 | 10 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1999 | "Something I Cannot Have" | - | 87 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2010 | "Sanford & Son" (featuring T.I., B.o.B, Prince Charlez and Mohombi) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| "It's My Party" (featuring Amy Winehouse) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | - | - | ||
References
- ^ "You searched for quincy jones". RIAA. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ Bronson, Fred (2003). Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits (3 ed.). Billboard Books. pp. 106–128.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–2012 (14 ed.). Record Research.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
- ^ "Quincy Jones | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ Big Maybelle, Big Maybelle, The Complete Okeh Sessions, 1952-55, Legacy’s Rhythm and Soul Series, Epic, Legacy, Okeh, 1994, liner notes
- ^ "New Zealand chart - Quncy Jones". charts.nz. 8 August 2014.
- ^ "Dutch chart - Quncy Jones". dutchcharts.nl. 8 August 2014.
- ^ "Belgian Chart - Quincy Jones". ultratop.be. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
- ^ "German Chart - Quncy Jones". charts.de. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
- ^ "UK Single Official Charts Companyrmation". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2012-08-11.