Quincy Jones, the death of the wall breaker

Published on November 4, 2024 at 09:12. / Modified on November 4, 2024 at 12:45 p.m.

It was the final barrier he still had to cross. Quincy Jones had so often thwarted the chronicles of his predicted death that people ended up believing he had settled here forever. He who had professed never to stay in his place, to produce pop while he was told to camp in jazz, he who had achieved with Michael Jackson the feat of putting a black singer in the ears of the world, he had become the best expert in border demolition of the previous century and the new.

Died this Sunday at the age of 91, Quincy Jones was also a friend of Montreux to the point that, when his brother Claude Nobs had the bad idea of ​​leaving the stage, he decided to make the trip to the festival every year , to perpetuate its spirit. Even in a wheelchair, towards the end, as he celebrated his 85th birthday in front of a hip-hop youth who revered him, he continued to be out of his depth.