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 Braff
With Rosemary Clooney
  • Everything'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 Ellis
  • Herb 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 Hamilton
  • Scott 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 Herman
  • Woody 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 James
  • The Solid Gold Trumpet of Harry James
  • Requests On-the-Road
  • Harry James Twenty-fifth Anniversary Album
With Barney Kessel
  • Barney Plays Kessel
  • Soaring
  • Poor Butterfly
With Eiji Kitamura
  • Dear Friends
  • Seven Stars
  • No Count
With Marian McPartland
  • Plays Music of Leonard Bernstein
  • West Side Story
  • From This Moment On
  • Portrait of Marian McPartland
  • At the Festival
  • Personal Choice
With Supersax
  • Supersax Plays Bird
  • Salt Peanuts
  • Supersax Plays Bird with Strings
  • Chasin' the Bird
  • Stone Bird
With Ross Tompkins
  • Lost in the Stars
  • Live at Concord '77
  • Festival Time
  • Street of Dreams
  • Symphony
  • In the Swing of Things
With others