Playlist
Quincy Jones Essentials
Apple Music Jazz
Tracks: 25119:28
Soulful, cerebral compositions, spanning genres and decades.
Updated Jan 30, 2019
Tracks 25
- 1The Dude4:33
- 2Bossa Nova Jazz by JazzEcho2:44
- 3The Soul of Quincy Jones5:11
- 4The Best of Quincy Jones3:06
- 5Body Heat4:47
- 6The Dude5:37
- 7The ABC, Mercury Jazz Big Band Sessions5:57
- 8The ABC, Mercury Jazz Big Band Sessions2:44
- 9The Quintessence3:19
- 10This Is How I Feel About Jazz5:40
- 11Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Music From and Inspired By the David L. Wolper Production of “Roots)2:16
- 1220th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Quincy Jones4:55
- 13The Soul of Quincy Jones12:06
- 14I Heard That!!3:56
- 15Estrellas De Los 80, Vol. 13:35
- 16The Wiz (Original Soundtrack)1:01
- 17Greatest Hits3:06
- 18The Best of Quincy Jones3:58
- 19Greatest Hits5:45
- 2020th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Quincy Jones4:29
- 21Relaxing Coffee Table Jazz4:07
- 22The Soul of Quincy Jones12:57
- 23The Best of Quincy Jones4:13
- 24Back On the Block4:54
- 25Estrellas De Los 80, Vol. 14:21
About this playlist
One of the major architects of modern pop music, Quincy Jones came up in LA in the ’60s, first as a big-band jazz arranger and later composing orchestral film scores. Along the way, he produced albums for Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, and other A-listers. This collection spotlights Jones’ own wide-ranging yet consistently brilliant performances: the bebop-inflected “Hard Sock Dance” and “Sermonette”; genre-defying pop-culture landmarks like “Soul Bossa Nova” and “Sanford and Son Theme (The Streetbeater)”; the Afro-jazz epic “Gula Matari”; and the cinematic funk of “Walking in Space” and “Stuff Like That.” Jones passed away in November 2024 at age 91.