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Singer Jon Hendricks has been dubbed "the poet laureate of jazz."
Singer Jon Hendricks is one of the founding fathers of vocalese–an artist who’s vocally swung the music of Count Basie and many other jazz greats, one third of the vocalese supergroup Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, a composer of lyrics for numerous jazz standards, and an influence on many jazz singers who’ve come after him. We’ll hear Hendricks’ very first album as a leader, some of his recordings with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, some later recordings, and a collaboration with the Manhattan Transfer.
Watch Lambert, Hendricks and Ross sing Jon Hendricks’ vocalese version of Sonny Rollins’ “Airegin”:
Music Heard On This Episode
Out Of The Past
Jon Hendricks — A Good Git-Together (Blue Note, 2006)
