Jake Hanna


John Hanna

John "Jake" Hanna (Roxbury, April 4, 1931 - Los Angeles, February 1, 2010) was an American jazz drummer.

Hanna began appearing in his Boston city and was the home drummer of Storyville in Boston in the 1950s and 1960s. He played with Toshiko Akiyoshi (1957), Maynard Ferguson (1958), Marian McPartland (1959-61) and Woody Herman's orchestra (1962-64).

Both inside and outside the jazz he also performed a lot of studio work, including a time as a drummer of the Merv Griffin Show (1964-75) big band. In the middle of the 1970s he performed with Carl Fontana several albums for Concord Jazz. Discography

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