Jake Hanna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American drummer
Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1931
Place of Birth: Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 12-Feb-2010
Profession: jazz musician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Jake Hanna
- Jake Hanna (April 4, 1931 – February 12, 2010) was an American jazz drummer. Hanna first performed in his home town of Boston.
- He was the house drummer at Storyville for a number of years 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).
- He appears with the Mort Lindsey Orchestra on Judy Garland's multi Grammy award-winning live album, Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961).
- He did extensive work as a studio musician both in and out of jazz, including a period as the drummer for the big band of the Merv Griffin Show (1964–75).
- He recorded several albums with Carl Fontana for Concord Jazz in the mid-1970s and also played in Supersax.
- Later in his career he did much work as a sideman for Concord.
- Hanna died on February 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California of complications from blood disease.
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