JONES, QUINCY DELIGHT, JR.

JONES, QUINCY DELIGHT, JR. Composer (14 March 1933 in Chicago, Illinois). His family moved to Bremerton, Washington, when he was ten years old. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Chicago, Illinois, and Seattle, Washington, where he began study of the trumpet during his high-school years; at Seattle University; and at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Early influences upon his musical development came from Ray Charles , whom he met in 1948 and with...