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Hank Jones
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American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
OverviewAI-generated
Hank Jones was a jazz pianist from the United States whose work period began in 1944. He was born on July 31, 1918, and died on May 16, 2010. His musical style is associated with jazz, bebop, swing, and piano.
He has a recorded playcount of 952,561 and 177,008 listeners on Last.fm. He is also an author with five works, including *Rick and Morty Presents : Maximum Coda #1*, *Rick and Morty : Kingdom Balls #4*, *Rick and Morty : Kingdom Balls #3*, *Chef's Kiss*, and *Too Late for Manly Hands*. His name appears in 1,465 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Jones
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Vicksburg
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sibling
- Elvin Jones
- Occupation
- music arranger
- Educated at
- Oakland University
- Employer
- Osaka College of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Savoy Records
- Image
- Hank Jones.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hank Jones
- date of birth
- 1918-07-31
- date of death
- 2010-05-16
- start of work period
- 1944-00-00
- different from
- Henry Jones
- birth name
- Henry William Jones, Jr.
- name in native language
- Hank Jones
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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