Jon Hendricks brought the hats and the Lionel Hampton Orchestra supplied the horns for the Kennedy Center's annual New Year's Eve jazz bash at the Terrace Theater. Sporting a white captain's cap and a ...

Time magazine called him the James Joyce of jive. Jon Hendricks could make any lyric swing. He was born in Newark, Ohio, and was best-known as... Jazz Singer Jon Hendricks Dies At 96 ARI SHAPIRO, HOST ...

The blues have done their bit, yeah! This jabberwockian fantasy is not the handiwork of a beat generation poet, but the nightly stock in trade of the nation’s slickest new vocal group—the Lambert, ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Jon Hendricks, the pioneering jazz singer and lyricist who with the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross popularized the "vocalese" singing style in which words were added to instrumental ...