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Hank Jones
Henry "Hank" Jones Jr. (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010)[1] was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable.[2] In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award.[3] He was also honored in 2003 with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Jazz Living Legend Award.[4] In 2008, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. On April 13, 2009, the University of Hartford presented Jones with a Doctorate Degree for his musical accomplishments.
Jones recorded more than 60 albums under his own name, and countless others as a sideman,[5] including Cannonball Adderley's celebrated album Somethin' Else. On May 19, 1962, he played piano as actress Marilyn Monroe sang her famous "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" song to then U.S. president John F. Kennedy.[6]
Biography
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Henry "Hank" Jones moved to Pontiac, Michigan, where his father, Henry Jones Sr. a Baptist deacon and lumber inspector, bought a three-story brick home. One of seven children, Jones was raised in a musical family. His mother Olivia Jones sang; his two older sisters studied piano; and his two younger brothers—Thad, a trumpeter, and Elvin, a drummer—also became prominent jazz musicians.[7] He studied piano at an early age and came under the influence of Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, and Art Tatum. By the age of 13 Jones was performing locally in Michigan and Ohio. While playing with territory bands in Grand Rapids and Lansing in 1944 he met Lucky Thompson, who invited Jones to work in New York City at the Onyx Club with Hot Lips Page.[8][9]
In New York City, Jones regularly listened to leading bop musicians, and was inspired to master the new style. While practicing and studying the music he worked with John Kirby, Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Andy Kirk, and Billy Eckstine.[9] In autumn 1947, he began touring in Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic package,[9] and from 1948 to 1953 he was accompanist for Ella Fitzgerald, and accompanying her in England in the Fall of 1948,[10] developed a harmonic facility of extraordinary taste and sophistication. During this period he also made several historically important recordings with Charlie Parker, which included "The Song Is You", from the Now's the Time album, recorded in December 1952, with Teddy Kotick on bass and Max Roach on drums.
Engagements with Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman followed, and recordings with artists such as Lester Young, Cannonball Adderley, and Wes Montgomery, in addition to being for a time, 'house pianist' on the Savoy label. From 1959 through 1975 Jones was staff pianist for CBS studios.[11] This included backing guests such as Frank Sinatra on The Ed Sullivan Show.[12] He played the piano accompaniment to Marilyn Monroe as she sang "Happy Birthday Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy on May 19, 1962.[1] By the late 1970s, his involvement as pianist and conductor with the Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin' (based on the music of Fats Waller) had informed a wider audience of his unique qualities as a musician.
During the late 1970s and the 1980s, Jones continued to record prolifically, as an unaccompanied soloist, in duos with other pianists (including John Lewis and Tommy Flanagan), and with various small ensembles, most notably the Great Jazz Trio. The group took this name in 1976, by which time Jones had already begun working at the Village Vanguard with its original members, Ron Carter and Tony Williams (it was Buster Williams rather than Carter, however, who took part in the trio's first recording session in 1976); by 1980 Jones' sidemen were Eddie Gómez and Al Foster, and in 1982 Jimmy Cobb replaced Foster. The trio also recorded with other all-star personnel, such as Art Farmer, Benny Golson, and Nancy Wilson. In the early 1980s Jones held a residency as a solo pianist at the Cafe Ziegfeld and made a tour of Japan, where he performed and recorded with George Duvivier and Sonny Stitt. Jones' versatility was more in evidence with the passage of time. He collaborated on recordings of Afro-pop with an ensemble from Mali and on an album of spirituals, hymns and folksongs with Charlie Haden called Steal Away (1995).
Some of his later recordings are For My Father (2005) with bassist George Mraz and drummer Dennis Mackrel, a solo piano recording issued in Japan under the title Round Midnight (2006), and as a side man on Joe Lovano's Joyous Encounter (2005). Jones made his debut on Lineage Records, recording with Frank Wess and with the guitarist Eddie Diehl, but also appeared on West of 5th (2006) with Jimmy Cobb and Christian McBride on Chesky Records. He also accompanied Diana Krall for "Dream a Little Dream of Me" on the album compilation, We all Love Ella (Verve 2007). He is one of the musicians who test and talk about the piano in the documentary Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037, released in November 2007.
In early 2000, the Hank Jones Quartet accompanied jazz singer Salena Jones at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Idaho, and in 2006 at the Monterey Jazz Festival with both jazz singer Roberta Gambarini and the Oscar Peterson Trio.
In June 2005, Jones was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music at 20th anniversary of jazz education at the Umbria Jazz Festival, in Perugia, Italy.[13]
Hank Jones lived in Cresskill NJ, upstate New York and in Manhattan. He died at a Calvary Hospital Hospice in The Bronx, New York, on May 16, 2010, survived by his wife Theodosia.[14]
Awards and recognitions
- Grammy history
- Career Wins: 2009: Lifetime Achievement Grammy
- Career Nominations: 5[15]
Hank Jones Grammy Awards History | |||||
Year | Category | Title | Genre | Label | Result |
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1977 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance – Soloist | "Bop Redux" | Jazz | Muse | Nominee |
1980 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance – Soloist | "I Remember You" | Jazz | Black & Blue | Nominee |
1980 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance – Group | "I Remember You" | Jazz | Black & Blue | Nominee |
1995 | Best Jazz Instrumental Solo | "Go Down Moses" | Jazz | Verve | Nominee |
1995 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance – Individual or Group | "Steal Away" | Jazz | Verve | Nominee |
Discography
As leader/co-leader
Year | Title | Personnel | Label |
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1947-53 | Urbanity | Clef | |
1955 | The Trio | Trio with Wendell Marshall and Kenny Clarke | Savoy |
1955 | Quartet-Quintet | Quartet/Quintet with Donald Byrd, Eddie Jones, Kenny Clarke + Matty Dice | Savoy |
1955 | Bluebird | Quartet/Quintet with Wendell Marshall/Eddie Jones, Kenny Clarke + Herbie Mann/Jerome Richardson/Donald Byrd and Matty Dice/Joe Wilder | Savoy |
1956 | Have You Met Hank Jones | Solo piano | Savoy |
1956 | Hank Jones' Quartet | Quartet with Bobby Jaspar, Paul Chambers and Kenny Clarke | Savoy |
1958 | Gigi | Quartet with Barry Galbraith, Arnold Fishkin, Donald Lamond | Golden Crest |
1958 | Keepin' Up with the Joneses | The Jones Brothers: Thad Jones, Elvin Jones and Eddie Jones | MetroJazz |
1958 | The Talented Touch | Quartet with Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson | Capitol |
1958 | Porgy and Bess | Quartet with Kenny Burrell, Milt Hinton, Elvin Jones | Capitol |
1963 | Here's Love | Quartet with Kenny Burrell, Milt Hinton, Elvin Jones | Argo |
1964 | This Is Ragtime Now! | Trio with Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson | ABC-Paramount |
1966 | Happenings | with Oliver Nelson and Orchestra | Impulse! |
1975 | Hanky Panky | Trio with Ron Carter and Grady Tate | East Wind |
1976 | Satin Doll: Dedicated to Duke Ellington | Solo Piano | Trio |
1976 | Jones-Brown-Smith | Trio with Ray Brown and Jimmie Smith | Concord Jazz |
1976 | Arigato | Trio/Quartet with Richard Davis/Jay Leonhart, Ronnie Bedford + Ray Rivera, | Progressive |
1977 | Bop Redux | Trio with George Duvivier and Ben Riley | Muse |
1977 | Just for Fun | Trio/Quartet with Ray Brown, Shelly Manne + Howard Roberts | Galaxy |
1977 | I Remember You | Trio with George Duvivier and Oliver Jackson | Black & Blue |
1977 | Have You Met This Jones? | Trio with Isla Eckinger and Kurt Bong | MPS |
1977 | The Trio | Trio with Milt Hinton and Bob Rosengarden | Chiaroscuro |
1977-78 | Tiptoe Tapdance | Solo piano | Galaxy |
1978 | Groovin' High | Quintet with Sam Jones, Mickey Roker, Thad Jones, and Charlie Rouse | Muse |
1978 | Our Delights | Piano duo with Tommy Flanagan | Galaxy |
1978 | More Delights | Piano duo with Tommy Flanagan | Galaxy |
1978 | Compassion | Trio with George Duvivier and Alan Dawson | Black & Blue |
1978 | Carnaval | Quartet with Ron Carter Sadao Watanabe, and Tony Williams | Galaxy |
1978 | Ain't Misbehavin' | Trio/Sextet with Richard Davis, Roy Haynes + Bob Ojeda, Teddy Edwards, and Kenny Burrell | Galaxy |
1979 | Easy to Love | Trio with George Duvivier, Shelly Manne | Lobster |
1979 | Hank Jones Trio Live in Japan | Trio with George Duvivier, Shelly Manne | Trio |
1979 | Trio 1979 Discoveries | Trio with George Duvivier, Shelly Manne | 55 |
1979 | Bluesette | Trio with George Duvivier, Alan Dawson | Black & Blue |
1983 | I'm All Smiles | Piano duo with Tommy Flanagan | MPS |
1985 | Great Jazz Quartet Live in Japan | Quartet with Sam Most, Ray Brown, Alan Dawson | TDK |
1987 | Duo | Duo with Red Mitchell | Timeless |
1988 | The Spirit of 176 | Duo with George Shearing | Concord |
1989 | The Oracle | Trio with Dave Holland, Billy Higgins | EmArcy |
1989 | Lazy Afternoon | Quartet with Ken Peplowski, Dave Holland, Keith Copeland | Concord Jazz |
1990 | Hank Jones with the Meridian String Quartet | With the Meridian String Quartet conducted by Manny Albam | LRC |
1991 | Hank Jones Trio with Mads Vinding & Al Foster | Trio with Mads Vinding, Al Foster | Storyville |
1991 | Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Sixteen | Solo piano | Concord |
1992 | When There Is Love | Duo with Abbey Lincoln | Verve |
1993 | Upon Reflection: The Music of Thad Jones | Trio with George Mraz, Elvin Jones | Verve |
1995 | Steal Away | Duo with Charlie Haden | Verve |
2004 | 'Round Midnight | Solo piano | Eighty-Eight's |
2004 | For My Father | Trio with George Mraz, Dennis Mackrel | Justin Time |
2005 | My Funny Valentine | Sony/CBS | |
2006 | Round Midnight | Sony | |
2006 | Kids: Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola | Duo with Joe Lovano | Blue Note |
2006 | West of 5th | With Jimmy Cobb and Christian McBride | Chesky |
2006 | Hank and Frank | Lineage | |
2009 | Hank and Frank II | Frank Wess, Ilya Lushtak, Marion Cowings, John Webber, and Mickey Roker. | Lineage |
2009 | Pleased to Meet You | Oliver Jones, Brandi Disterheft and Jim Doxas | Justin Time |
2009 | Trio Hank Jones | George Mraz, Willie Jones | Multisonic |
2012 | Come Sunday | Duo with Charlie Haden | EmArcy |
With Great Jazz Trio
Year | Title | Personnel | Label |
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1976 | I'm Old Fashioned | with Sadao Watanabe, Ron Carter, Tony Williams | East Wind |
1976 | Love for Sale | with Buster Williams, Tony Williams | East Wind |
1977 | The Great Jazz Trio at the Village Vanguard | with Ron Carter, Tony Williams | East Wind |
1977 | The Great Jazz Trio at the Village Vanguard Vol. 2 | with Ron Carter, Tony Williams | East Wind |
1977 | The Great Jazz Trio at the Village Vanguard Again | with Ron Carter, Tony Williams | East Wind (released 2000) |
1977 | Bird of Paradise | with Sadao Watanabe, Ron Carter, Tony Williams | Flying Disk |
1977 | Kindness Joy Love & Happiness | with Ron Carter, Tony Williams | East Wind |
1977 | Direct from L.A. | with Ron Carter, Tony Williams | East Wind |
1978 | Milestones | with Ron Carter, Tony Williams | East Wind |
1978 | New Wine in Old Bottles | with Jackie McLean, Ron Carter, Tony Williams | East Wind |
1978 | The Great Tokyo Meeting | with Ron Carter, Tony Williams | East Wind |
1980 | Chapter II | with Eddie Gómez, Al Foster | East Wind |
1980 | Moreover | with Eddie Gómez, Al Foster | East Wind |
1982 | Threesome | with Eddie Gómez, Jimmy Cobb | Eastworld |
1983 | N.Y.Sophisticate: a Tribute to Duke Ellington | with Eddie Gomez, Jimmy Cobb, The Strings Quartet | Denon |
1984 | Monk's Mood | with Eddie Gomez, Jimmy Cobb, Terumasa Hino | Denon |
2003 | Autumn Leaves | with Elvin Jones, Richard Davis | Eighty-Eight's |
2004 | 'S Wonderful | with John Patitucci, Jack DeJohnette | Eighty-Eight's |
2005 | Speak Low | with John Patitucci, Jack DeJohnette | Eighty-Eight's |
2006 | Stella by Starlight | with Sadao Watanabe, John Patitucci, Omar Hakim | Eighty-Eight's |
2007 | July 6 th - Live at Birdland NY | with John Patitucci, Omar Hakim | Eighty-Eight's |
2008 | Blue Minor | with George Mraz, Billy Kilson | Eighty-Eight's |
2010 | Last Recording | with David Wong, Lee Pearson | Eighty-Eight's |
As sideman
With Pepper Adams
With Cannonball Adderley
With Manny Albam
With Gene Ammons
With Louis Bellson
With Bob Brookmeyer
With Ruth Brown
With Kenny Burrell
With Rusty Bryant
With Donald Byrd
With Ron Carter
With Paul Chambers
With Jimmy Cleveland
With Al Cohn
With Art Farmer
With Victor Feldman
With Ella Fitzgerald
With Curtis Fuller
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Dexter Gordon
With Johnny Griffin
With Gigi Gryce
With Lionel Hampton
With Johnny Hartman
With Donna Hightower
With Johnny Hodges
With Bobbi Humphrey
With Milt Jackson
With Illinois Jacquet
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With J. J. Johnson
With Elvin Jones
With Quincy Jones
With Clifford Jordan
With Irene Kral
With Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich
With Joe Lovano
With Herbie Mann
With Shelly Manne
With Warne Marsh
With Mat Mathews
With Gary McFarland
With Howard McGhee
With Helen Merrill
With Wes Montgomery
With James Moody
With Oliver Nelson
With Joe Newman
With Anita O'Day
With Art Pepper
With Jimmy Raney
With Charlie Rouse and Paul Quinichette
With A. K. Salim
With Sahib Shihab
With Johnny Smith
With Bob Stewart
With Sonny Stitt
With Ira Sullivan
With Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer
With Lucky Thompson
With Cal Tjader
With Ben Webster
With Ernie Wilkins
With Nancy Wilson
With Kai Winding
With Lester Young
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References
- ^ a b Charlie. "The Dead Rock Stars Club January to June 2010". Thedeadrockstarsclub.com. Retrieved November 12, 2017.
- ^ According to Arnold Jay Smith (in "The Impeccable Hank Jones", Down Beat, July 31, 1976), Jones was branded "the impeccable one" by WRVR-FM jazz historian Ed Beach.
- ^ National Endowment for the Arts: Henry "Hank" Jones Archived October 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 5, 2007. Retrieved November 15, 2007.
- ^ Jazz Review: Hank Jones Archived October 23, 2004, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Hank Jones: The Man Who Accompanied Marilyn", The Marilyn Monrow Collection Blog, February 4, 2009.
- ^ "Henry "Hank" Jones bio". Enotes.com. Retrieved November 12, 2017.
- ^ Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness, 1995, p. 2206. ISBN 1-56159-176-9
- ^ a b c "Hank Jones facts, information, pictures". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
- ^ Feather, Leonard. Inside Jazz, Da Capo Press, 1988, p. 89. ISBN 0-306-80076-4
- ^ "Interview: 90-Year-Old Jazz Pianist Hank Jones" Archived December 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., Village Voice, November 11, 2008.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 27, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2007.
- ^ "Hank Jones, Mccoy Tyner, Enrico Rava Honored by Berklee College of Music at Umbria Jazz". Home.nestor.minsk.by. Retrieved November 12, 2017.
- ^ Peter Keepnews, "Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Is Dead at 91", The New York Times, May 17, 2010.
- ^ "The Envelope: Hollywood's Awards and Industry Insider - Los Angeles Times". Latimes.com. Retrieved November 12, 2017.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hank Jones. |
- Official website
- Hank Jones on IMDb
- Hank Jones complete discography
- Arnold Jay Smith, "Profile: Hank Jones", Jazz.com.
- Peter Keepnews, "Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Is Dead at 91", New York Times, May 17, 2010.
- "Magic Numbers: Hank Jones, Ron Carter, Tony Williams" by Ethan Iverson.
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