I knew this was it for me. Forever,” he writes in his newly published “Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones” (Doubleday, $26). The rest is, as they say, history. Jones would go on to arrange music for Frank Sinatra, childhood friend Ray Charles and ...

Quincy Jones, the polymath hitmaker who ruled the American music industry with a magic touch for well over half a century, has died. He was 91 years old.