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(March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024)

Wikipedia

Record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received many accolades including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.

Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before producing pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s (including “It’s My Party“) and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between Frank Sinatra and the jazz artist Count Basie. Jones produced three of the most successful albums by pop star Michael Jackson: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad(1987). In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song “We Are the World“, which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia.

Jones composed numerous films scores including for The Pawnbroker(1965), In the Heat of the Night(1967), In Cold Blood (1967), The Italian Job (1969), The Wiz(1978), and The Color Purple (1985). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the miniseries Roots (1977). He received a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical as a producer for the revival of The Color Purple (2016).

Throughout his career he was the recipient of numerous honorary awards including the Grammy Legend Award in 1992, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the National Medal of the Arts in 2011, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2024. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.

A few things he showed us!

Film

Year	Film	Director	Credit	Ref.
1965	The Pawnbroker	Sidney Lumet	Composer
	Mirage	Edward Dmytryk	Composer
	The Slender Thread	Sydney Pollack	Composer
1966	Walk, Don’t Run	Charles Walters	Composer
1967	The Deadly Affair	Sidney Lumet	Composer
	Enter Laughing	Carl Reiner	Composer
	Banning	Ron Winston	Composer
	In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	Composer
	In Cold Blood	Richard Brooks	Composer
1968	A Dandy in Aspic	Anthony Mann	Composer
	The Counterfeit Killer	Józef Lejtes	Composer
	Jigsaw	James Goldstone	Composer
	For Love of Ivy	Daniel Mann	Composer
	The Hell with Heroes	Joseph Sargent	Composer
	The Split	Gordon Flemyng	Composer
1969	Mackenna’s Gold	J. Lee Thompson	Composer
	The Italian Job	Peter Collinson	Composer
	The Lost Man	Robert Alan Aurthur	Composer
	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Paul Mazursky	Composer
	John and Mary	Peter Yates	Composer
	Cactus Flower	Gene Saks	Composer
1970	Last of the Mobile Hot Shots	Sidney Lumet	Composer
	The Out-of-Towners	Arthur Hiller	Composer
	They Call Me Mister Tibbs!	Gordon Douglas	Composer
1971	Brother John	James Goldstone	Composer
	The Anderson Tapes	Sidney Lumet	Composer
	Honky	William Graham	Composer
	Dollars	Richard Brooks	Composer
1972	The Hot Rock	Peter Yates	Composer
	The New Centurions	Richard Fleischer	Composer
	The Getaway	Sam Peckinpah	Composer
1978	The Wiz	Sidney Lumet	Composer
1985	The Color Purple	Steven Spielberg	Composer Producer
1990	Stalingrad	Yuri Ozerov	Producer
1997	Steel	Kenneth Johnson	Producer
2005	Get Rich or Die Tryin’	Jim Sheridan	Composer
2023	The Color Purple	Blitz Bazawule	Producer
2024	Lola	Nicola Peltz	Composer

Television

Year	Project	Role	Notes	Ref.
1966–1967	Hey Landlord	Composer	“Hey Landlord Theme“; 7 episodes	[126]
1967–1968	Ironside	Composer	12 episodes
1969–1971	The Bill Cosby Show	Composer	52 episodes
1971	The Bill Cosby Special	Composer	Comedy special
1971	43rd Academy Awards	Musical Director	Television Special
1972	The New Bill Cosby Show	Musical Director	2 episodes
1973	Sanford and Son	Composer	“Sanford and Son Theme“; 135 episodes
1977	Roots	Composer	Miniseries
1990–1996	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Executive Producer	148 episodes
1991	The Jesse Jackson Show	Executive Producer	Episode: “The Homefront”
1995–1999	In the House	Executive Producer	76 episodes
1996	68th Academy Awards	Executive Producer	Television special
1997	Lost on Earth	Executive Producer	6 episodes
1997–1998	Vibe	Executive Producer	28 episodes
1997–2009	Mad TV	Executive Producer	215 episodes
2001	Say it Loud: A Celebration of Black America	Executive Producer	5 episodes
2022	Bel-Air	Executive Producer	6 episodes

“RE Classics” – We will never forget!

Amazon MGM Studios will release RED ONE theatrically in the US on November 15, 2024
On Sunday, November 3, Amazon MGM Studios hosted the World Premiere of RED ONE at UCI Luxe, Uber Platz in Berlin, Germany.

In attendance were director/producer Jake Kasdan and stars Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, J.K. Simmons, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt, Kristofer Hivju and more!

After Santa Claus – Code Name: RED ONE – is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security (Dwayne Johnson) must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter (Chris Evans) in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

Directed by | Jake Kasdan
Story by | Hiram Garcia
Screenplay by | Chris Morgan
Produced by | Hiram Garcia, p.g.a., Dwayne Johnson, p.g.a., Dany Garcia, Chris Morgan, p.g.a., Jake Kasdan p.g.a, Melvin Mar
Starring | Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt, Kristofer Hivju, Nick Kroll, Wesley Kimmel and J.K. Simmons
Run Time | 2 hours 2 minutes
Rating | PG – 13

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