Jazz Articles about Jim Hession

Take Five With Jim Hession

by AAJ Staff
March 21, 2009

Meet Jim Hession:I started my career in Los Angeles at age 14 when I moved from classical piano to early jazz. By 16 I had joined the AFM and was working professionally. Piano work put me through UCLA music school, particularly at Disneyland and Mickie Finn's (San Diego) where I met my wife Martha (my vocalist), and we began our personal and musical lives.

We spent 36 years performing for DL-WDW in addition to ...

Jim Hession: Playing With Fire Volume One: The Giants of Stride

by Wade Luquet
February 11, 2009

Jim Hession's Playing with Fire: Volume One, The Giants of Stride is both historical, and an impressive piece of stride piano playing. Hession began playing at a young age and was a fixture on the traditional jazz scene in California by the time he was 20. He was a protege of Eubie Blake, who he recorded with while still in his twenties. Hession then began a 33-year career with the Disney Company, where he and his wife Martha, a singer, ...