{"id":533296,"date":"2026-03-13T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:18:10","slug":"quincy-jones-estate-sells-catalog-including-michael-jackson-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533296\/","title":{"rendered":"Quincy Jones Estate Sells Catalog, Including Michael Jackson Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tQuincy Jones<\/a>\u2019 family has struck an acquisition deal with HarbourView Equity Partners that will cover large swaths<\/a> of his legendary catalog<\/a>, including his stake in three classic<\/a> Michael Jackson<\/a> albums.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal covers Jones\u2019 recorded music and publishing rights, including his interest in not only the three Jackson albums he produced (Off The Wall<\/a>, Thriller<\/a>, and Bad<\/a>), but his own seminal composition \u201cSoul Bossa Nova\u201d and George Benson\u2019s 1980 hit \u201cGive Me the Night.\u201d Also included are Jones\u2019 ancillary rights in other assets, like his stake in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, on which he was an executive producer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur father didn\u2019t just create hits, he built platforms that shaped culture across music, film, media, and technology,\u201d said\u00a0Quincy Jones III (QD3). \u201cHe believed innovation was a creative tool and embraced it early, from serving on the board of MIT to pushing the boundaries of what storytelling could be. He had a deep passion for empowering future generations of creatives, and saw technology\/innovation as a conduit if used ethically.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s an omnipresent force in creative spaces,\u201d HarbourView\u2019s CEO Sherrese Clarke tells Rolling Stone. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a number of iconic works in our portfolio, but adding someone like this to how we see our job as stewards and holders of canons of work for future generations, it felt like a blessing.\u201d (HarbourView also manages catalogs by Kelly Clarkson<\/a>, Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Christine McVie<\/a>, T-Pain, Kane Brown, James Fauntleroy, and more.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe obviously have good economic terms [relative to the market]. We did all the things that we were supposed to do for the family, and they did right by us,\u201d Clarke continues. \u201cBut to me, it\u2019s more an honor to have the responsibility of working with this family so closely to continue to exalt his legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJones, who died in November 2024<\/a> at the age of 91, was one of the most prolific and important figures of 20th century music. Over seven decades, he worked as a trumpet player, composer, arranger, producer, conductor, and scorer. As his daughter, the actress Rashida Jones, put it in a statement, \u201cLong before anyone talked about \u2018multi-platform,\u2019 he was already building bridges and connecting the dots across music, film, television, publishing, technology and culture, creating iconic juggernauts like Thriller, The Color Purple, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Vibe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe catalog acquisition reflects that breadth, as well as the legacy of his work. It covers, for instance, Jones\u2019 songwriting stake in Kanye West\u2019s \u201cGood Life,\u201d due to its sample of Jackson\u2019s \u201cP.Y.T.\u201d, which Jones co-wrote with James Ingram. Similarly, Tupac\u2019s \u201cHow Do U Want It\u201d is part of the deal because of its use of Jones\u2019 1974 song, \u201cBody Heat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal also includes the theme songs Jones composed for the hit crime drama Ironsides and the classic sitcom Sanford and Son. Clarke highlighted these as one of the more unique facets of the Jones catalog acquisition, and how his work has shaped our collective pop culture consciousness.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGrowing up, the intro to Sanford and Sons was iconic,\u201d she says, unable to refrain from humming a bit of the jaunty lead sax melody. \u201cI may not remember every episode, but I know that intro. It\u2019s so wonderful to be a part of the cultural legacy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the three Jackson albums, Jones likely earned a 10 percent basic royalty from those records \u2014 a not insignificant figure considering they\u2019ve collectively sold over 100 million copies worldwide. (While usually such a number would be buried in a private contract, a dispute between Jones and the Jackson estate<\/a> over allegedly unpaid royalties in the 2010s brought some details to light.) The nuances of Jones\u2019 stake in Jackson\u2019s catalog also didn\u2019t provide any particular complications to the deal, Clarke says, and the Jackson estate wasn\u2019t involved in the deal.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cObviously, we\u2019re huge fans of those works,\u201d she says. \u201cSo in some ways, it made it very attractive \u2014 in a lot of ways it made it very attractive. And didn\u2019t make it any more complicated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tGoing forward, HarbourView and the Jones estate will continue to work on initiatives tied to the catalog, as well as Jones\u2019 name, image, and likeness, though Clarke declined to tease any upcoming projects. That said, HarbourView will be hosting a tribute event for Jones on March 13 in Los Angeles, ahead of the Academy Awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur father was endlessly curious and always ahead of his time,\u201d says Rashida. \u201cWhat made him extraordinary was his ability to see around corners and bring together the right people, ideas, and sounds to create timeless work again and again. As his children, our responsibility is to protect not only the catalog, but the spirit and love behind it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quincy Jones\u2019 family has struck an acquisition deal with HarbourView Equity Partners that will cover large swaths of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,17235,341,112691],"class_list":["post-533296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-jackson","tag-music","tag-quincy-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}