After news of Quicy Jones’ passing this Sunday came out, comedian Alex Edelman shared a sweet anecdote from a time when the two were seated together at an event. “Are you Jewish?” Jones asked the comedian, who would go on to win an Emmy for his Jewish comedy special . When Edelman responded in the affirmative, the 28-time Grammy winner and music producer responded with, “I produced a couple of Jews.
” “Musicians?” Edelman appropriately asked, to which Jones answered: “Children.” Jones, who passed away at age 91, clearly got a lot of naches, or pride, from all of his seven children. Two of them are Jewish — actresses Kidada Jones and Rashida Jones — born from his over-decade-long marriage to Jewish actress Peggy Lipton.
Lipton, who passed away in 2019 at age 72 from colon cancer, was Jones’ third wife, but their love, as shown in the 2018 Grammy-winning documentary , co-directed by Rashida, was all-consuming. Jones and Lipton met in 1972 while she starred in . As she once explained, “The chemistry was so strong, I was so drawn to him.
He came into my life and I just knew.” They moved in together right away, and Jones called falling in love with her “a breath of fresh air,” describing Lipton, the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants who was raised in a Jewish home on Long Island, as independent, smart and understanding. In an interview, Rashida shared that her maternal grandparents at first struggled with the relationship, but eventually supported i.
