Rashida Jones and Quincy Jones Arnold Turner/Getty Images for Freedom Road Productions
Rashida Jones paid tribute to her late dad, Quincy Jones, after his death at age 91 on Sunday, November 3.
“My dad was nocturnal his whole adult life. He kept ‘jazz hours’ starting in highschool and never looked back. After I was little, I’d get up in the midst of the night to go looking for him,” Rashida, 48, wrote in a Thursday, November 7, Instagram tribute. “Undoubtedly, he can be somewhere in the home, composing (old fashioned, with a pen and sheet music). He would never send me back to bed. He would smile and produce me into his arms while he continued to work…there was no safer place on the earth for me.”
She continued, “He was a large. An icon. A culture shifter. A genius. All accurate descriptions of my father but his music (and ALL of his work) was a channel for his love. He WAS love. He made everyone he ever met feel loved and seen. That’s his legacy. I used to be fortunate enough to experience this love in close proximity.”
Rashida closed her note with a message to her late father. “I’ll miss his hugs and kisses and unconditional devotion and advice,” she wrote. “Daddy, it’s an honor to be your daughter. Your love lives endlessly.”
Quincy Jones was not only a legendary record producer, but in addition a proud father. The music giant welcomed seven children before he died at age 91 in November 2024. “Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing. And although that is an incredible loss […]
The Parks and Recreation alum is considered one of the late producer’s seven children. He shared Rashida and Kidada Jones, 50, along with his third wife, Peggy Lipton. He was also dad to daughter Jolie Jones Levine, 69, Rachel Jones, 60, Martina Jones, 58, Quincy Delight Jones III, 55, and Kenya Kinski-Jones, 31, from other relationships.
Quincy produced Lesley Gore‘s ’60s hits “You Don’t Own Me” and “It’s My Party” and Michael Jackson‘s biggest songs within the ’80s, including “Thriller” and “Billie Jean.” Snoop Dogg, Frank Sinatra, LL Cool J and Duke Ellington are only just a few of the opposite names the 28-time Grammy Award winner worked with over time. Nonetheless, Rashida has been open about opting to not follow in her father’s musical footsteps.
“My dad’s a musical genius. That’s, like, the final thing I need to do, is try my hand at that,” she revealed on an August episode of the “Smartless” podcast. “But I adore it. Like, I actually have a deep ache for music and I just don’t ever feel like I’m adequate to do it. Like, I’ll never be adequate to do it, so I just don’t.”
She added, “I adore it a lot and I sort of sing for fun and I’ve written for fun, and I’ve sung backup on some albums. I sang backup on the primary two Maroon 5’s. I sang for them live.”
As a substitute, she dove into acting 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 Images for Freedom Road Productions
The doc included a vulnerable side of Quincy that hadn’t been documented before, which included showing scenes from a hospitalization amid his struggle with drinking. (He quit alcohol in 2016.)
“I’m so protective of my dad, and clearly, that’s a really intimate story to inform,” Rashida told Entertainment Weekly in 2018. “My brother shot a few of that stuff within the hospital, after which I shot some. Really, we did it for him, because we wanted him to give you the option to see where he was in order that he wouldn’t forget and he would deal with himself. That was the unique intention. I believe I could tell that story, because I do know he’s a responder and a survivor. And I do know that he thrives from having the ability to have a look at death and the opportunity of death, after which reorganize from there.”
Quincy Jones had the magic touch when it got here to music production, so when he teamed up with Michael Jackson, they were destined for greatness. The legendary producer, who died in November 2024 on the age of 91, worked with the likes of Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra before hitching his wagon to Jackson in […]
She continued, “That’s what I believe made me comfortable doing it. It was definitely not a straightforward decision. And the primary couple of times that I watched the scene where it was within the movie, it obviously made me uncomfortable. But I also felt like if we’re gonna tell this story, now we have to actually tell the story. I don’t need to pull punches.”
In the course of the documentary, Quincy emphasized his hope to live life to the fullest, saying, “You simply live 26,000 days. I’m going to wear all of them out.”
