Jake Hanna


Jake Hanna was an American jazz drummer.
He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States. Hanna first performed in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the house drummer at Storyville nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts for a number of years in the 1950s and 1960s. He played with Toshiko Akiyoshi, Maynard Ferguson, Marian McPartland, and Woody Herman's Orchestra. He appears with the Mort Lindsey Orchestra on Judy Garland's multi Grammy Award-winning live album, Judy at Carnegie Hall. 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. 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. He was aged 78.

Discography

As leader

Live at Concord Jake Hanna's Kansas City Express Jake Takes Manhattan
  • ''The Joint Is Jumpin' ''

As sideman

With Toshiko Akiyoshi…at Newport The Many Sides of Toshiko Toshiko's Piano/Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi Finesse
With Ruby BraffIt Had to Be Us Watch What Happens You Brought a New Kind of Love
With Rosemary ClooneyEverything's Coming Up Rosie Here's to My Lady With Love Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Cole Porter Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Harold Arlen Rosemary Clooney Sings Ballads
With Herb EllisHerb Ellis & Ray Brown's Soft Shoe Seven, Come Eleven After You've Gone Rhythm Willie Hot Tracks Soft & Mellow At Montreux Summer 1979 When You're Smiling Roll Call
With Scott HamiltonScott Hamilton Is a Good Wind Who Is Blowing Us No Ill Scott Hamilton 2 No Bass Hit Apples and Oranges Scott's Buddy Tour de Force Major League Groovin' High
With Woody HermanWoody Herman–1963 1963: The Swingin'est Big Band Ever Encore The Swinging Herman Herd-Recorded Live Woody Herman: 1964 Woody's Big Band Goodies 40th Anniversary Carnegie Hall Concert At the Woodchopper's Ball Presents a Concord Jam Volume 1 A Great American Evening Vol. 3
With Harry JamesThe Solid Gold Trumpet of Harry James Requests On-the-Road Harry James Twenty-fifth Anniversary Album
With Barney KesselBarney Plays Kessel Soaring Poor Butterfly
With Eiji KitamuraDear Friends Seven Stars No Count
With Marian McPartlandPlays Music of Leonard Bernstein West Side Story From This Moment On Portrait of Marian McPartland At the Festival Personal Choice
With SupersaxSupersax Plays Bird Salt Peanuts Supersax Plays Bird with Strings Chasin' the Bird Stone Bird
With Ross TompkinsLost in the Stars Live at Concord '77 Festival Time Street of Dreams Symphony In the Swing of Things
With others