But in a career that stretched across three-quarters of a century, what may have been more important about this giant of American music — who died Sunday at age 91 — is that he created the conditions for hits. Jones was a crucial connector of talent ...

"Music is sacred to me," Quincy Jones once said. "Melody is God's voice." He certainly had the divine touch. Jones, who had died at the age of 91, was the right-hand man to both Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson,