Role Drummer Name Jake Hanna | Instruments drums Occupation(s) Musician | |
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Born April 4, 1931 ( 1931-04-04 ) Movies Jazz Icons: Woody Herman: Live in '64 Albums The Hanna/Fontana Band Live at Concord Similar People | ||
Education Berklee College of Music |
A Celebration Of Jake Hanna
Jake Hanna (April 4, 1931 – February 12, 2010) was an American jazz drummer.
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Hanna first performed in his home town of Boston. He was the house drummer at Storyville for a number of years in the 1950s and 1960s. He played with Toshiko Akiyoshi (1957), Maynard Ferguson (1958), Marian McPartland (1959–61), and Woody Herman's Orchestra (1962–64). He appears with the Mort Lindsey Orchestra on Judy Garland's multi Grammy award winning live album, Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961). He did extensive work as a studio musician both in and out of jazz, including a period as the drummer for the big band of the Merv Griffin Show (1964–75). He recorded several albums with Carl Fontana for Concord Jazz in the mid-1970s and also played in Supersax. Later in his career he did much work as a sideman for Concord. Hanna died on February 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California of complications from blood disease.

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Discography


With Toshiko Akiyoshi

With Maynard Ferguson
With Woody Herman
With Warne Marsh
With Ed Bickert