Quincy was married three times, first to Jeri Caldwell, with whom he shared a daughter named Jolie. Every drop.". Many people of Jones's age accept that their days may be coming to an end, and adapt accordingly. You first met Michael when he was 12, right? So you would personally buy drugs off Malcolm X? "Yeah, he showed up in the back of a car with a brother who was managing him, and he was like a deer in the headlights. This is his normal schedule: Rise around four or five in the afternoon, and then ride through the night, his mind racing. Women are a trip, man.". I remember one day we were out there working at Hayvenhurst, and we couldn't find Muscles, and we went downstairsthey were refurbishing this room down thereand here this cat, man, is hanging out of the parrot cage. Michael said, 'I never been to Minnenapolis.' Forgive us our trespasses and forgive those who trespass against us. Every fucking night it was like the girls coming through Neiman Marcus: 'Oh, I like trumpet players,' 'I like sax players,' 'I like guitar players' Rita Hayworth, all of them. Quincy Jones has run with them all. And red beans and rice. Sadly, their marriage was over within years and was finalized in 1974 so Quincy could go on to marry his third wife, Peggy Lipton. Cape Town. "Yeah, I don't lie. 30. He even got the trumpets in the booty. Life is a trip.". At one point, he asks for a laptop so that he can show me some of his young jazz protgs on YouTube, and spends about 20 minutes playing videos. Oh baby! Jackson had film of what happened that night. When you heard that someone like Truman Capote had said something like that, what did you think? Use it or lose it.". Michael Jackson's family is furious with Quincy Jones Got to challenge the brain. "Well, what do you say? And she was illiterate. He didn't say to the brothers, 'Go with him.' Snoopy (25) looking at him like he's crazy. Quincy Jones Net Worth 2023: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki "What the fuck is that?" "Will do," says Michael, clearly joking. And he took his trumpet with him. And so he never has. She is Jewish on her mother's side, and African-American on her father's side. Jones brought along his hairdresser, a man named Jay Sebring, and after the movie, they made plans for later that evening. Then we went upstairs, and he saw the chimpanzee and the snake, he said, 'Now, that's interesting.' says Jones, and the star he is referring to is Prince. His pastashit!". [Bono]'s a great guy. Finding a job without a computer in the design industry was hard, and the artist was on welfare for a time. I guess you're supposed to be the one to slow it down. Got that charming smile. At an early age, Kidada battled an identity crisis. Frank knew first and he called me up, and he was like a little kid: 'We got the first music on the moon, man!' It was freedom, man. In '64! You ever see Black Orpheus? Because they hung him up, man, and cut his nuts off and everythingJay Sebring. If that was my daughter, I'd be kind of angry. "Oh, that I only like blondes. ", That was how, one day, the five of them found themselves driving together in a car on their way to play at a rodeo in Yakima. He was a character, man. She'd send us down to the waterfront and tell us, 'Just get the ones with their tails moving, because you know they're alive. I did a tour with Nat Cole in '61 with my bandwe couldn't stop the girls. Great guy, man. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings by her father's other relationships. He had both, but he double-crossed us. And Richard Brooks said, 'Fuck you, he's doing the music.' He's still with them. Always. Would you ever go out with anyone your own age? Or the occasion in May 2007, when Oprah brought Barack and Michelle Obama 'round to this house in an attempt, unsuccessful at the time, to woo Jones away from his friends the Clintons. When we meet, celebrity sexual harassers are falling like dominoes. Jeri hit on me first. "Never. But that was just a coincidence." Kikada is their first child together, and she is also a model and an author. "Man, it's been happening to me all my life. That's the only way you can be great, you know, is pay attention to the best guys who ever did it. His mouth is inside, but he just ate the parrot so he couldn't get out of the cage. Aretha, 12. Truman Capote eventually apologized, didn't he? Mary J. Blige. He had a brief affair with Carol Reynolds, which resulted in a daughter named Rachel. ", "Look where we've come," he says, raising his eyes to the ceiling. I know strange. Jones wrote the soundtrack for Roots; Haley had investigated Joness genealogical background and was working with Jones on Joness autobiography before he died. I don't give a shit." Kidada Jones was raised in Bel Air, where her home was often frequented by celebrities like Michael Jackson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. "The box had all kinds of stuffsome cuff links with Tootsie Rolls on them. Jones says Charles was the most independent blind man you could ever witnesshed go cross the lights, go to the supermarket, shop, count his change no help. And you assumed you'd become a gangster, too? Nia Long's Mother Taught Art as a Talented Creative. But if you're black, that's what you get used to in America.". Read on to learn about Quincy Jones three previous wives. They remained friends until Sinatras death. Why? ", "Oh, it scared me to death, man. You need a drink or anything?". And it's the best thing I ever did. Shit, all those cats in New York. So, who are the women who once held they key to the music industry icons heart? She was with him in Las Vegas when he died. Two up front and three in the back. (11) Amazing man. He said, 'Did you see that he's dead?' (22) Number one, we lived right next door to each other.". "Seven or 8 years old. And we went and talked, and after that we hugged and made up. (23) His son Miko, I took him to San Diego with us to get the first platinum record on Thriller, and he met Michael, and Michael's family hired him to be part of their team. "Muscles used to come and wrap around me, my leg, around the chair, and crawl across the console. By 1964, he was named a vice president of Mercury Records, making him the first Black man to hold such a heavy position at a white-owned record company, per the American Academy of Achievement. And when you were in the middle of that craziness, what were you thinking? He could never play the trumpet again. Sinatra, he went on, "wore that for 40 years. Every week we'd have two or three dinners with Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin and all those cats. They want us to take over the estate now, my son and I. "Well, my daughters gave me new numbers, because they kept saying, 'Dad, you can't go out with girls younger than us.' he says, taken aback. "I wanted to be a gangster until I was 11 . (16), "I know, but people, you know. I needed him to beg, and I went through the whole nine yards. She said, 'We were doing a recruitment film for Hitlerthink I'm going to tell Hitler, "One more time, Adolf!"?' "We almost won the Oscar, man. "I just couldn't do it," he says. He tells me he now speaks 26 languages. Since 1957, GQ has inspired men to look sharper and live smarter with its unparalleled coverage of style, culture, and beyond. Chris Heath stays up late with the 84-year-old music legend who has a tale to go with every famous name. "I forgive everybody. The one that you always hear? GQ may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. But they wrong like a motherfucker, man. And he went back into the other room and said, 'I didn't know Quincy Jones was a Negro.' I mean, the other guys were dead. How do you know Prince was trying to run him over? One day, as he blew, he felt a new pain in his head, and he was subsequently told that the clip had nearly come loose. "They say coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. ", "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Jones exudes positivity about most of the people he has known, but not all of them, and he is not above Schadenfreude. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, "I feel like I'm just starting," Quincy Jones explains as he slowly takes a seat in the grand living room of his hilltop Bel-Air mansion, a wide arc of nighttime Los Angeles visible through the windows in front of him. "We need more songs, man. Cairo. To date, he has 28 Grammy awards to his name, one Emmy, and seven Oscar nominations. It was very traumatic. . It's also a testament to his unique gift for not just knowing people but also sharing unforgettable moments with them. It was fun, man. Nia Long's Mother Talita Long Is an Artist & Composer You know, I'd see him try to fighthe couldn't fight worth a shit. Hollywood Life, Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News. I said, 'Why?' He was the dope dealer. 14 major changes 'Daisy Jones and The Six' made from the bestselling book Was told not to marry actresses or singers. "Oprah dramatizes everything. That happened all the time. It's a life punctuated by so many disparate encounters and achievements and circumstances that it is hard to believe they are the experiences of a single man. He's a fearless motherfucker. When I arrived here this evening, Jones had just woken up. And they cut her belly open with the baby, you know." ", "No. I was terrified. It takes work, man. This is fresh in his mind, in part because he knows whom he blames for this disappointment. ", "Yeah, I started shooting. The first of these took place when he was 14 years old. You put some lime in the meringue. This is his family crest from Sicily.". He's just a man. They had two children, Rashida and Kidada. Are you crazy? What did he think of what Prince had done onstage that night? He'd just done A Streetcar Named Desire, and he was going up to Harlem that night. On the way home, Lloyd said to me, 'My brother, you shall have no pie!' Jeri has one acting credit to her name, for an appearance in 1994s Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. By the time they tied the knot, they had already welcomed a daughter, Kidada. Reached up and pulled my friend, and his head fell off. Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza was a Dominican diplomat, sportsman, and playboy famous for dating many of the most famous and richest women of his era. Now he was told that he had a clip on a blood vessel in his brain, and that if he blew a trumpet in the ways that a trumpet player must, the clip would come free and he would die. "That's the higher power. ", "Did it hurt? So I stay in his castle.". And it's amazingwomen get it, man. Jones mentions that he also has about a hundred tapes from the legendary film director Hal Ashby, who was trying to school Jones to become a director himself, because at the time Robert De Niro wanted Jones to co-direct a project he had, an interracial love story., "Everything. And he went over, put his charm on 'em, and said, 'I'd like to dance,' took her out on the floor for about 30 minutes. We're doing ten movies, six albums, four Broadway shows, two networks, business with the president of China, intellectual property. "Right. He points to a scar he's had on his hand for 77 years. You know, all these women were available all over the world. You were around in the era when the animals started appearing, weren't you? "I don't know. A third time Quincy Jones's life might have come to a premature halt: Barely a few hundred yards away from where we sit tonight, on a nearby hillside, is a house with a troubled history. We came almost in love with each other. ", "Yeah, but I came up with Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra, man. Kidada Ann Jones was born on March 22, 1974, in Los Angeles, California, US, as the eldest daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton. "Yeah. Riefenstahl was a German film director whose work has long been stained by her close association with the Nazi movement. Party our ass off. Her debut album, No Time No Space No Age No Race Thats Nifty!, was released in 1979. Mavericks Flat was a Los Angeles dance club sometimes known as the Apollo of the West. Did you understand why he was such a big deal? Quincy Jones | Biography, Music, & Facts | Britannica And an ice pick here. I'm in the center. Three or four estates they want us to take over. He didn't realize the guy was a pimp. It's unbelievable, man." We weren't going to take that shit. Harlem and Compton don't mean shit after Chicago in the '30sthey look like Boys Town to me. She is also a painter. He was tough, man. ", "No, no, no. But for a young boy, there was only the sense that something was very much not as it should be. "Yeah, I love Kendrick Lamar, I love Bruno Mars, I love Drake, I love Ludacris, I love Common. And because each sentence from his mouth comes out sounding like a benediction, it takes a while to register that the word the 84-year-old Quincy Jones uses more than any other, as a term of both endearment and opprobrium, is motherfucker.