Jones, Hank, 1918-2010 (Personal Name)

New Grove dict. of jazz (Jones, Hank (Henry); b. July 31, 1918, Vicksburg, MS; pianist)

New York times WWW site, May 18, 2010 (in obituary published May 17: Hank Jones; b. Henry W. Jones, Jr., July 31, 1918, Vicksburg, Miss.; d. Sunday [May 16, 2010], the Bronx, aged 91; his self-effacing nature belied his stature as one of the most respected jazz pianists of the postwar era)

African American National Biography, accessed June 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Jones, Hank; jazz musician, pianist; born 31 July 1918 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States; worked with John Kirby Sextet, trumpeter Howard McGhee, tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and big bands of Andy Kirkand Billy Eckstine; toured with Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic; became Ella Fitzgerald's accompanist; recorded with Charlie Parker (1952); worked with Artie Shaw's final version of the Gramercy Five; played with Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Cannonball Adderley (1956-1958); staff of CBS, working with television orchestras (1959-1975); played piano behind Marilyn Monroe (1962); member of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra and toured with Benny Goodman and Stan Getz (1966); played piano in Broadway musical Ain'tMisbehavin'(1970's); led and recorded with the Great Jazz Trio (1976); recorded over sixty albums and thousands as a sideman; honored with National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award (1989); died 16 May 2010 in New York, New York, United States)

Hank Jones (1918-2010) was a jazz pianist.