No. 1 Quincy Jones
He’s scored films like In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, the original Italian Job, The Color Purple and The Wiz. He produced jazz recordings by Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and popular standards for singers like Frank Sinatra and Dinah Washington. And he was the man behind classic funk, pop and soul albums by Aretha Franklin, The Brothers Johnson, Rufus, James Ingram and, of course, Michael Jackson. He had a hand in more great music over the course of the second half of the 20th Century than virtually anyone. There really is no competition for “Q.”
