How Quincy Jones owned the 1980s

Quincy Jones’s enormous success in the 1980s was the culmination of an extraordinary career that would continue for many more decades. A classically trained musician who grew up in Seattle, he was a gospel singer at age 12, a jazz arranger in New York City in his early 20s, and musical director of Barclay Records in France soon after. In the 1960s he worked with Ray Charles, oversaw the artists-and-repertoire department at Mercury Records, and...