Music Titan Quincy Jones Dies Aged 91

Music industry titan Quincy Jones, who produced some of Michael Jacksons best-known albums and collaborated with legends including Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, has died aged 91.

He was surrounded by family at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air at the time of his death on Sunday, his publicist Arnold Robinson said in a statement that did not specify a cause.

Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones passing, his family said, according to the statement. And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him.

A jazz musician, composer and tastemaker, his studio chops and arranging prowess connected the dots between the 20th centurys constellation of stars.

From Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, jazz to hip-hop, Jones tracked the ever-fluctuating pulse of pop over his seven-decade-plus career most often manipulating the beat himself.