Music business veteran Quincy Jones is restructuring his Quincy Jones Productions. To maximise on alternatives in music, media, model licensing and new expertise, Jones shall be shuttering the corporate’s artist administration division. As well as, the division’s president Adam Fell shall be exiting.
In a press release asserting the reorganization, Jones mentioned, “Mentoring younger musicians will at all times be on the forefront of my being, and I’m enormously gratified to see the younger musicians that I’ve labored with discover success, together with Grammy winners Jacob Collier and Jon Batiste, Grammy nominee Alfredo Rodriguez and pianist Justin Kauflin, amongst others. I’ll stay near and dedicated to supporting younger artists despite the fact that administration is closing. I thank Adam Fell for his laborious work and contributions to Quincy Jones Productions and the administration division and need nothing however one of the best for his future endeavors.”
Together with Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, Jones is a producer of the upcoming theatrical musical adaptation of The Colour Purple. Below his Quincy Jones Productions banner, he’s additionally growing a number of different movie, TV and stage initiatives together with The Jones Boys, a biopic about Despair-era Chicago coverage makers chased out of city by Al Capone; one other biopic about Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, and a Broadway musical concerning the evolution of Black music.
Jones’ model partnerships embody Harman Worldwide’s Q-Line assortment of audio merchandise; SVOD platform Qwest TV, devoted to jazz and jazz-inspired music kinds; piano-learning software program Playground Periods; Buscemi Footwear; Q’s Jazz Membership contained in the Palazzo Versace lodge in Dubai; the Quincy Jones pen assortment with Montegrappa; a luxurious baggage and sunglass line with Maybach; and a branded luxurious timepiece with Audemars Piguet. He’s additionally a restricted associate within the Andreessen Horowitz Cultural Management Fund.
Commenting on Quincy Jones Productions’ slate of present and growing initiatives, Jones mentioned, “At my core I’m an artist and a producer, and that’s the place I need my focus to be at the moment. Now we have some wonderful initiatives that we’re growing in the meanwhile that I’m really obsessed with, and I’m trying ahead to seeing them come to fruition in addition to exploring all of the alternatives that may current themselves with quickly rising new applied sciences.”
