A giant in the music and entertainment industry has died.

Quincy Jones was revered as a record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and performer

throughout his seven decades in the business.

Through his vast range of projects from the producer of the best-selling album of all time

to composer of some of the most recognized music in film, he racked up

80 Grammy nominations and 28 Grammy Awards. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown has this

remembrance, part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

From Michael Jackson's biggest hits to some of Frank Sinatra's most classic arrangements.

Fly me to the moon. Let me play up there with those stars.

Few loomed larger in American popular culture or had more success than Quincy Jones.

Love, laugh, live, and give. That's what is about.

Born on Chicago's South Side in 1933, Jones began his life in music as a jazz trumpeter.

He became fast friends with Ray Charles when both were still in their teams.

He soon began composing and arranging, including 1962's classic Sol Bossa Nova.

It's My Party and I'll cry my want to.

Leslie Gore's hit, It's My Party, which arrived a year later. Across a career that spanned more than

70 years, he worked with seemingly everyone, including jazz legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Duke

Ellington, and rappers such as Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog.

The most impactful moment, a three-album run with Michael Jackson that included the best-selling record of all time,

1982's thriller, along with Off the Wall and Bad.

Anyone who says they figured out how to make records to sell more than 50 million records

is lying and smoking Kool-Aid that work like that.

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