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Quincy Jones Dies Aged 91

    Above: Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, in 2014. Image copyright: Lionel Flusin/Gamma-Rapho/Contributor via Getty Images

    The Spin

    This is a huge loss for the music community. Jones's work as a composer, arranger, producer, conductor, and scorer spanned decades and marked the apex of jazz, funk, and soul music in the twentieth century. He will be remembered as a pioneer and his spirit will live on through the thousands of records he worked on, which continue to be widely loved and listened to in the US and across the rest of the world.

    Metaculus Prediction

    There's a 50% chance that in 2050, 0.218 percent of the US workforce will be musicians or writers, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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