Jazz Articles about Hank Jones

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Tyree Glenn / Hank Jones Quintet/Sextet: Complete Recordings

by Joe Alterman
September 25, 2010

In the history of jazz, few pianists have been as prolific as the recently deceased Hank Jones. His tasteful and subtle playing is documented on literally thousands of recordings. Many of them are today known as jazz classics--benchmarks to the greatness of this music--and Jones' playing and support on all of them were crucial in creating those historic, beautiful and legendary legacies.For whatever reason, many of Jones' recordings have long been either forgotten, out of print, or very ...

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Hank Jones: With Oliver Jones & the Great Jazz Trio

by Joel Roberts
May 15, 2010

Oliver Jones and Hank JonesPleased to Meet YouJustin Time2010 The Great Jazz TrioMoreoverTest of Time2010 Hank Jones continues his remarkable late-in-life surge of activity with this new release documenting his first-ever recorded encounter with Canadian piano mainstay Oliver Jones. Hank Jones was 90 when Pleased to Meet You was recorded two years ago in ...

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Hank Jones - Oliver Jones: Pleased to Meet You

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2010

Questa incisione della Justin Time vede uniti due pianisti, ambedue sotto contratto per l'etichetta canadese: il leggendario Hank Jones e il più noto esponente del mainstream in Canada, Oliver Jones, allievo prediletto della sorella di Oscar Peterson. Una registrazione che potrebbe definirsi “di circostanza" e che, se vogliamo, nulla aggiunge alla luminosa carriera di Hank Jones, il quale in passato ha saputo evidenziare le sue eccelse doti anche in contesti di gran lunga più significativi: basti pensare ai suoi lavori ...

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Hank Jones / Oliver Jones: Pleased To Meet You

by Raul d'Gama Rose
November 20, 2009

What a surprise to hear the first-ever recording that joins piano maestros Hank Jones and Oliver Jones. A Detroit native, ninety-year-old Hank Jones is from the family that gave us Thad “Bartok with Wings" Jones and polyrhythmist Elvin Jones, and he has participated in historic bebop sessions with Charlie Parker and memorable duets with Tommy Flanagan. Montreal's Oliver Jones, who once followed in the footsteps of Oscar Peterson, has emerged to forge a virtuosic path as a ...

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Roberta Gambarini: You Are There

by Suzanne Lorge
February 12, 2008

Grammy-nominated vocalist Roberta Gambarini has been working with pianist Hank Jones since 2001, when the pair first met and performed together at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival at the University of Idaho. Since then she's toured the world with Jones and his sidemen, George Mraz on bass and Willie Jones III on drums.

Live performance on the road and in concert was the only preparation Gambarini and Jones used in recording their first album together as a duo, ...

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Joe Lovano and Hank Jones: Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

by Paul Moots
November 27, 2007

Early jazz is often music of joy and playfulness--it's no wonder the great cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s are often backed by a classic jazz soundtrack. Now that jazz has become “art and “music of significance, joy and playfulness are too often missing from performances. It is a pleasure, then, that Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's, a collaboration between Joe Lovano on tenor and soprano sax and Hank Jones on piano, revives the waning art of joyful jazz.

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Kenny Dorham: Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts

by Samuel Chell
October 5, 2007

In the new liner notes included with this addition to the Keepnews Collection on Riverside, the producer expresses his satisfaction with this 1957 “blowing" album, showcasing the trumpeter whom, after Clifford Brown, he considers second to none. Recorded approximately a year following Brown's passing, the date demonstrates Dorham's gifts as a balladeer, composer and, above all, as a pyrotechnician--the kind of player who can take apart a song's chord structure and reconstruct it with surgical precision, even while operating at ...