Jon Hendricks Lyrics Follow
John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists, such as the big-band arrangements of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. He is considered one of the best practitioners of scat singing, which involves vocal jazz soloing. Jazz critic and historian Leonard Feather called him the "Poet Laureate of Jazz", while Time dubbed him the "James Joyce of Jive". Al Jarreau called him "pound-for-pound the best jazz singer on the planet—maybe that's ever been".
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Albums
A Good Git-Together
Popular Songs
- Shorty George
- The King
- Li'l Darlin'
- Swingin' the Blues
- Rusty Dusty Blues
- Going to Chicago Blues
- Let Me See
- Every Tub
- Tickle Toe
- Social Call
- Out of the Past
- A Good Git-Together & Everything Started in the House of the Lord
- Minor Catastrophe
- Pretty Strange
- The Shouter
- Everything Started in the House of the Lord
- I'll Die Happy
- Music in the Air
- Feed Me
- Trinkle Tinkle
- Fas' Livin' Blues
- The Finer Things in Life
- Swing That Music
- Sing Sing Sing
- Listen to Monk
- High as a Mountain
- Take the "A" Train
- Sugar
- Stardust
- In Summer
