“All the greats bring the streams together,” Quincy Jones once said. The music producer was talking about the artists he worked with or admired: Ray Charles was as much jazz and R&B, while Marvin Gaye was as much jazz as soul, he explained. But Jones, who has died aged 91, could just as well have been talking about himself.
One of the most influential producers of all time, he brought together the streams of disco, pop, jazz, soul and classical music like no other over a career lasting seven decades. We won’t see his like again.
