Rashida Jones and Quincy Jones Arnold Turner/Getty Photos for Freedom Highway Productions
Rashida Jones paid tribute to her late dad, Quincy Jones, after his loss of life 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 could be someplace in the home, composing (old skool, 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 planet for me.”
She continued, “He was an enormous. 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 cherished and seen. That’s his legacy. I used to be lucky sufficient to expertise this love in shut proximity.”
Rashida closed her word 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 without end.”
Quincy Jones was not solely a legendary document producer, but in addition a proud father. The music large welcomed seven youngsters 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 without doubt one of the late producer’s seven youngsters. He shared Rashida and Kidada Jones, 50, together 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 Celebration” and Michael Jackson‘s largest 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 attempt my hand at that,” she revealed on an August episode of the “Smartless” podcast. “However I like 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 like it a lot and I type 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 Photos for Freedom Highway Productions
The doc included a susceptible facet of Quincy that hadn’t been documented earlier than, which included exhibiting scenes from a hospitalization amid his wrestle with ingesting. (He give up alcohol in 2016.)
“I’m so protecting of my dad, and clearly, that’s a really intimate story to inform,” Rashida advised 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 overlook and he would care for himself. That was the unique intention. I believe I may 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 having the ability to take a look at loss of life and the opportunity of loss of life, 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 had 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 comfy 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’ve to essentially inform the story. I don’t need to pull punches.”
Throughout 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.”