Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter.

During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned more than 7 Grammy Award nominations, more than 25 Grammy Awards, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of two of the top-selling records of all time: the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which sold 104 million copies worldwide, and the charity song “We Are the World”. He has always considered himself to be on the cutting edge of technology and creativity as this is evidenced by his musical endeavors early in his career. In 1953, Jones was playing with the Lionel Hampton Big Band when they used the third Fender electric bass guitar. That, coupled with the use of electric guitar, changed the face of popular music. Furthermore in 1964, he used the very first synthesizer that the public ever heard when he composed the theme for "Ironside". Jones has also launched a monthly podcast with Wizzard Media in which he will take subscribers on a journey of interviews, video footage and story telling of his six decades in the industry.

In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African-Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category. That same year, he became the first African-American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of In Cold Blood. Jones was also the first (and so far, the only) African-American to be nominated as a producer in the category of Best Picture (in 1986, for The Color Purple). He was also the first African-American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African-American, each of them having seven nominations.