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Infobox musical artist| name = Hank Jones| image = Hank_Jones.jpg| caption = Photo by Ed Newman| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Henry Jones| alias =| birth_date = birth date|1918|07|31|mf=y|birth_place = Vicksburg, Mississippi , United States | death_date = death date and age|2010|05|16|1918|07|31|mf=yes|death_place = Manhattan, New York , United States| origin =| instrument = Piano | genre = Bebop Jazz | occupation = Musician Bandleader Composer | years_active = 1944& ndash;2010| label = Verve Records|Verve , Savoy Records|Savoy , Epic Records|Epic , Capitol Records|Capitol , Argo Records|Argo , Impulse Records|Impulse , Concord Records|Concord , Chesky Records|Chesky , Sony Records|Sony | associated_acts = Ella Fitzgerald Charlie Haden Nancy Wilson (singer)|Nancy Wilson Charlie Parker Salena Jones Roberta Gambarini | website = http://www.officialhankjones.com/ Hank Jones official site| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Henry " Hank " Jones (July 31, 1918 & ndash; May 16, 2010) was an United States|American jazz pianist , bandleader , arranger, and composer . Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable.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. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award. http://www.nea.gov/national/jazz/artists_tour/jones.html National Endowment for the Arts: Henry "Hank" Jones He was also honored in 2003 with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Jazz Living Legend Award. http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/awards/jazzwall/2003/jones.html 2003 ASCAP Jazz Living Legend Award 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 over sixty albums under his own name, and countless others as a sideman . http://www.jazzreview.com/cdreview.cfm? ID=6032 Jazz Review: Hank Jones
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 Jones|Thad , a trumpeter, and Elvin Jones|Elvin , a drummer—also became prominent jazz musicians. http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/jones-hank-biography Henry "Hank" Jones bio 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, Michigan|Grand Rapids and Lansing, Michigan|Lansing in 1944 he met Lucky Thompson , who invited Jones to work in New York, New York|New York City at the Onyx Club (New York City)|Onyx Club with Hot Lips Page .Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music , Guinness, page 2206, (1995) - ISBN 1-56159-176-9
In New York City|New York , Jones regularly listened to leading bebop|bop musicians, and was inspired to master the new style. While practicing and studying the music he worked with John Kirby (musician)|John Kirby , Howard McGhee , Coleman Hawkins , Andy Kirk (musician)|Andy Kirk , and Billy Eckstine . In autumn 1947, he began touring in Norman Granz 's Jazz at the Philharmonic package, and from 1948 to 1953 he was accompanist for Ella Fitzgerald , and accompanying her in England in the Fall of 1948,Feather, Leonard. Inside Jazz , Da Capo Press, page 89, (2997) - ISBN 0-306-80076-4 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 Records|Savoy label. From 1959 through 1975 Jones was staff pianist for CBS studios. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2008/11/interview_90yea.php Village Voice Interview This included backing guests like Frank Sinatra on The Ed Sullivan Show . http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ofa/programs/artists/jazz_programs/jones_program_sm.pdf Harvard: Hank Jones He played the piano accompaniment to Marilyn Monroe as she sang "Happy Birthday Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy on May 19, 1962. http://www.thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2010.html Thedeadrockstarsclub.com - accessed May 2010 By the late 1970s, his involvement as pianist and conductor with the Broadway theatre|Broadway musical '' Ain't Misbehavin' (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 (pianist)|John Lewis and Tommy Flanagan (musician)|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 (drummer)|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 Gomez 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 (singer)|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.
Hank Jones lived in upstate New York and in Manhattan. He died at a hospice in Manhattan, New York, on May 16, 2010. He is survived by his wife Theodosia.
Awards and recognitions
;Grammy history
Career Wins: 2009: Lifetime Achievement Grammy
Career Nominations: 5 http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory? searchtype=all& query=Hank+Jones& x=13& y=13 Grammy Awards Database for Hank Jones
Hank Jones Grammy Awards History
Year
Category
Title
Genre
Label
Result
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
Year
Title
Personnel
Label
Notes
1950
Hank Jones Piano
Mercury
1956
Urbanity
Clef
1958
The Talented Touch
Capitol Records
1966
Happenings
with Oliver Nelson and Orchestra
Impulse
1975
Hanky Panky
Trio with Ron Carter and Grady Tate
Inner City / East Wind
1976
Hank (Hank Jones Solo Piano)
Jazz Alliance / All Art Jazz
Original LP : Satin Doll
1976
''Rockin' In Rhythm
Ray Brown and Jimmie Smith
Concord
1976
Arigato
Richard Davis and Ronnie Bedford
Progressive
Reissued on CD with bonus tracks.
1977
Bop Redux
Trio with George Duvivier and Ben Riley
Muse
1977
I Remember You
Trio with George Duvivier and Oliver Jackson
Black & Blue
1977
Just for Fun
Ray Brown , Shelly Manne and Howard Roberts
Galaxy
1978
Our Delights
Piano duo with Tommy Flanagan
Galaxy
1978
''Ain't Misbehavin
Richard Davis , Roy Haynes , Bob Ojeda , Teddy Edwards , and Kenny Burrell
Galaxy
1978
''Groovin' High
Quintet with Sam Jones , Mickey Roker , Thad Jones , and Charlie Rouse
Muse
1995
Steal Away
Duo with Charlie Haden
Verve
2003
Porgy & Bess
Toshiba EMI
2004
Satin Doll
Absord Japan
2005
My Funny Valentine
Sony/ CBS
2006
Round Midnight
Sony
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 Records
2009
Trio Hank Jones
George Mraz , Willie Jones
Multisonic
Live
2011
Trio Hank Jones
George Mraz , Willie Jones
Marecam
DVD from concert published on CD in 2009 by Multisonic
http://www.officialhankjones.com/ Hank Jones official home page
IMDb name|id=0428192
http://www.music-city.org/Hank-Jones/complete-discography/ Hank Jones complete discography
http://www.jazz.com/features-and-interviews/2008/7/30/octojazzarian-profile-hank-jones "Profile: Hank Jones" by Arnold Jay Smith ( http://www.jazz.com Jazz.com)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/arts/music/18jones.html Obituary - New York Times
http://dothemath.typepad.com/dtm/magic-numbers-hank-jones-ron-carter-tony-williams.html "Magic Numbers," an essay on Hank Jones, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams
Persondata | NAME = Jones, Hank | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = July 31, 1918 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Vicksburg, Mississippi , United States | DATE OF DEATH = May 16, 2010 | PLACE OF DEATH = Manhattan, New York , United States DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Hank Category:1918 births Category:2010 deaths Category:People from Vicksburg, Mississippi Category:Swing pianists Category:Bebop pianists Category:African American musicians Category:American jazz pianists Category:United States National Medal of Arts recipients Category:Savoy Records artists Category:Mercury Records artists Category:Verve Records artists Category:Muse Records artists Category:Musicians from Mississippi
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