BIRTHDAY: Jazz Musician of the Day: Hank Jones

All About Jazz is celebrating Hank Jones’ birthday today! The oldest of the three Jones brothers (Hank, Thad and Elvin), Henry “Hank” Jones was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and grew up in Pontiac, Michigan, where he studied piano at an early age and came under the influence of Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum…