Quincy Jones Parents: Meet Quincy Delight Jones, Sr & Sarah Frances Jones

Quincy Jones was born in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois on March 14, 1933, to Sarah Frances and Quincy Delight Jones. Frances was a band officer and apartment complex manager while Quincy Delight was a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky.

There isn’t much information about Quincy’s parents on the internet.

Jones rose to fame in 1950 as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved effortlessly between genres, producing pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie.

Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.