page_title: Hank Jones
hierarchical_section_title: Hank Jones
caption_attribution_description: Hank Jones, Newport Jazz Festival, 7/14/05
context_page_description: Henry "Hank" Jones was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Jones recorded more than 60 albums under his own name, and countless others as a sideman. On May 19, 1962, he played piano as actress Marilyn Monroe sang her famous "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" song to then U.S. president John F. Kennedy. He was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and raised in Pontiac, Michigan.
  Jones died in Manhattan, New York from an illness, aged 91.
context_section_description: Henry "Hank" Jones (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Jones recorded more than 60 albums under his own name, and countless others as a sideman. On May 19, 1962, he played piano as actress Marilyn Monroe sang her famous "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" song to then U.S. president John F. Kennedy. He was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and raised in Pontiac, Michigan.
  Jones died in Manhattan, New York from an illness, aged 91.
caption: Photo by Ed Newman
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