Quincy Jones Productions Reorganizes – Billboard

Music trade veteran Quincy Jones is restructuring his Quincy Jones Productions. To maximize on alternatives in music, media, model licensing and new expertise, Jones will likely be shuttering the corporate’s artist administration division. In addition, the division’s president Adam Fell will likely be exiting.

In a press release saying the reorganization, Jones mentioned, “Mentoring young musicians will always be at the forefront of my being, and I am enormously gratified to see the young musicians that I have worked with find success, including Grammy winners Jacob Collier and Jon Batiste, Grammy nominee Alfredo Rodriguez and pianist Justin Kauflin, among others. I will remain close to and committed to supporting young artists even though management is closing. I thank Adam Fell for his hard work and contributions to Quincy Jones Productions and the management division and wish nothing but the best for his future endeavors.” 

Along with Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, Jones is a producer of the upcoming theatrical musical adaptation of The Color Purple. Under his Quincy Jones Productions banner, he’s additionally creating a number of different movie, TV and stage initiatives together with The Jones Boys, a biopic about Depression-era Chicago coverage makers chased out of city by Al Capone; one other biopic about Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, and a Broadway musical in regards to the evolution of Black music.

Jones’ model partnerships embody Harman International’s Q-Line assortment of audio merchandise; SVOD platform Qwest TV, devoted to jazz and jazz-inspired music kinds; piano-learning software program Playground Sessions; Buscemi Footwear; Q’s Jazz Club contained in the Palazzo Versace resort 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 can also be a restricted associate within the Andreessen Horowitz Cultural Leadership Fund.

Commenting on Quincy Jones Productions’ slate of present and creating initiatives, Jones mentioned, “At my core I am an artist and a producer, and that is where I want my focus to be at this time. We have some amazing projects that we are developing at the moment that I am truly passionate about, and I’m looking forward to seeing them come to fruition as well as exploring all the opportunities that will present themselves with rapidly emerging new technologies.”