Jeri Caldwell was the first wife of media mogul, Quincy Jones. The couple were high school sweethearts and grew up together in Washington State. They later moved to New York City and Paris, where her husband studied Nadia Boulanger.

Jeri is the mother of his eldest child, jazz vocalist, Jolie Jones. There isn’t much information about Jeri on the internet as she loved to keep her life away from the limelight.

Jones rose to fame in 1950 as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved effortlessly between genres, producing pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie.

Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.