Rashida Jones and Quincy Jones Arnold Turner/Getty Pictures for Freedom Street Productions
Rashida Jones paid tribute to her late dad, Quincy Jones, after his dying at age 91 on Sunday, November 3.
“My dad was nocturnal his complete grownup life. He saved ‘jazz hours’ beginning in highschool and by no means seemed again. After I was little, I’d get up in the course of the evening to seek for him,” Rashida, 48, wrote in a Thursday, November 7, Instagram tribute. “Undoubtedly, he can be someplace in the home, composing (old-fashioned, with a pen and sheet music). He would by no means ship me again to mattress. He would smile and convey me into his arms whereas he continued to work…there was no safer place on the earth for me.”
She continued, “He was a large. An icon. A tradition shifter. A genius. All correct descriptions of my father however his music (and ALL of his work) was a channel for his love. He WAS love. He made everybody he ever met really feel liked and seen. That’s his legacy. I used to be lucky sufficient to expertise this love in shut proximity.”
Rashida closed her be aware with a message to her late father. “I’ll miss his hugs and kisses and unconditional devotion and recommendation,” she wrote. “Daddy, it’s an honor to be your daughter. Your love lives endlessly.”
Quincy Jones was not solely a legendary file producer, but additionally a proud father. The music big welcomed seven kids earlier than he died at age 91 in November 2024. “Tonight, with full however damaged hearts, we should share the information of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing. And though that is an unimaginable loss […]
The Parks and Recreation alum is among the late producer’s seven kids. He shared Rashida and Kidada Jones, 50, along with his third spouse, Peggy Lipton. He was additionally dad to daughter Jolie Jones Levine, 69, Rachel Jones, 60, Martina Jones, 58, Quincy Delight Jones III, 55, and Kenya Kinski-Jones, 31, from different relationships.
Quincy produced Lesley Gore‘s ’60s hits “You Don’t Personal Me” and “It’s My Get together” and Michael Jackson‘s greatest songs within the ’80s, together with “Thriller” and “Billie Jean.” Snoop Dogg, Frank Sinatra, LL Cool J and Duke Ellington are just some of the opposite names the 28-time Grammy Award winner labored with over time. Nonetheless, Rashida has been open about opting to not observe in her father’s musical footsteps.
“My dad’s a musical genius. That’s, like, the very last thing I need to do, is strive my hand at that,” she revealed on an August episode of the “Smartless” podcast. “However I adore it. Like, I’ve a deep ache for music and I simply don’t ever really feel like I’m adequate to do it. Like, I’ll by no means be adequate to do it, so I simply don’t.”
She added, “I adore it a lot and I form of sing for enjoyable and I’ve written for enjoyable, and I’ve sung backup on some albums. I sang backup on the primary two Maroon 5’s. I sang for them stay.”
As an alternative, she dove into appearing and directing, even codirecting the 2018 documentary Quincy, which chronicled her father’s life and profession, with Alan Hicks.
Quincy Jones and Rashida Jones Arnold Turner/Getty Pictures for Freedom Street Productions
The doc included a weak facet of Quincy that hadn’t been documented earlier than, which included displaying scenes from a hospitalization amid his battle with consuming. (He stop alcohol in 2016.)
“I’m so protecting of my dad, and clearly, that’s a really intimate story to inform,” Rashida instructed Leisure Weekly in 2018. “My brother shot a few of that stuff within the hospital, after which I shot some. Actually, we did it for him, as a result of we needed him to have the ability to see the place he was in order that he wouldn’t neglect and he would maintain himself. That was the unique intention. I believe I might inform that story, as a result of I do know he’s a responder and a survivor. And I do know that he thrives from with the ability to have a look at dying and the potential for dying, after which reorganize from there.”
Quincy Jones had the magic contact when it got here to music manufacturing, so when he teamed up with Michael Jackson, they have been destined for greatness. The legendary producer, who died in November 2024 on the age of 91, labored with the likes of Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra earlier than hitching his wagon to Jackson in […]
She continued, “That’s what I believe made me snug doing it. It was actually not a simple determination. And the primary couple of instances that I watched the scene the place it was within the film, it for certain made me uncomfortable. However I additionally felt like if we’re gonna inform this story, we have now to essentially inform the story. I don’t need to pull punches.”
Through the documentary, Quincy emphasised his hope to stay life to the fullest, saying, “You solely stay 26,000 days. I’m going to put on all of them out.”
