Jake Hanna - A Celebration



Here's a nice little montage and tribute to the great Jake Hanna:



I've been enjoying Jake's fine playing with the Woody Herman band lately (incidentally Terry Clarke told me once that Hanna was a huge influence on his own personal approach to big band drumming, especially with the Boss Brass) and I've also been getting a lot of mileage out of Hanna's sight reading book "Syncopated Big Band Figures":



Jake Hanna was also a versatile drummer and could find himself in just about any musical situation, not just big bands. A great example of this would be his playing on the Oscar Peterson album "Live in Russia":