Hank Jones

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/arts/mus...?ref=obituaries

Great jazz club and cabaret player. I subbed for him once at the Sherry Netherland in 1975. Very inspiring that he became more high-profile soloist at age 60, after sideman for Ella and others for decades.

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Thanks for posting this, Patrick. I'm sorry I never had the chance to hear Hank live. The Times also published this amazing little City Room piece: A Jazzman’s Final Refuge:

Hank Jones, the legendary jazz pianist, led an oddly bifurcated existence toward the end of his 91 years on earth.

He stayed active till the very end, collecting a Grammy last year and touring the world. But when he wasn’t on the road, he lived in near isolation in a 12-by-12-foot room at 108th Street and Broadway, ordering in three meals a day from the diner downstairs and practicing incessantly on an electric keyboard plugged into headphones.

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Extraordinary story-image. Wanted to do it all the time, no wonder it paid off. Thanks for posting, kfw. Also like that Andre Previn said that Hank was his favourite pianist 'in any idiom'. Super-cool.