Jazz Articles about Hank Jones

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Hank Jones, Frank Wess, and Eddie Diehl

by Francis Lo Kee
June 25, 2007

Hank Jones/Christian McBride/Jimmy Cobb West of 5th Chesky 2006 Hank Jones and Frank Wess Hank and Frank Lineage 2006 Eddie Diehl Well, Here It Is... Lineage 2006

Hank Jones is the alpha and omega of jazz. What great musician hasn't he played with? ...

Aa.Vv.: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 26, 2007

Strettissimo collaboratore di Duke Ellington per quasi trent’anni, Billy Strayhorn è uno dei grandi autori della storia del jazz. Basta scorrere i titoli dei brani contenuti in questo album per rinfrescarsi la memoria. Oggi, a quarant’anni dalla sua scomparsa, l’etichetta Blue Note pubblica questo CD, nel quale alcune delle sue più famose composizioni vengono interpretate da un nucleo di artisti davvero impressionante. Al di là del singolo brano, o della declinazione che ad esso viene attribuita dai singoli musicisti, quello ...

Hank Jones: Complete Recordings / Hanky Panky / 'S Wonderful

by Ken Dryden
February 21, 2006

Since making his debut recording as a leader in 1947, Hank Jones has continued to impress jazz fans for over five decades. Not only is he still recording in his late 80s, but some of his long out of print sessions are beginning to reappear on the market.

Hank Jones Complete Recordings Argo/Cadet/Golden Crest - Gambit 2005

The Gambit compilation of the Complete Recordings by the Hank Jones Quartet with Kenny Burrell and Barry ...