And every so often, the Recording Academy gets it totally right, rewarding an album so undeniably essential that all voting roads lead back to it as the one and only answer. (And then the next ...

One artist in particular, an icon whose stamp of approval on the genre carried undeniable weight, was Quincy Jones. Mr. Jones had his finger on the pulse of this emerging genre, with several Hip-Hop ...

Throughout his career, Jones won 28 Grammy Awards, six of them for the 1990 album "Back on the Block." Oprah Winfrey ... "In 1967, Quincy Jones was the first Black composer nominated in the ...