JONES, HENRY

JONES, HENRY (HANK). Jazz pianist (31 July 1918 in Vicksburg, Mississippi). He came from a musical family: his father played guitar, his mother played piano, and two brothers, Elvin and Thaddeus (Thad), became professional musicians. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Pontiac, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. He studied piano as a child. He began playing professionally when he was thirteen with local groups, at first in Pontiac, then in other Michigan cities after he had graduated...