Jake Hanna

External videos
External videos
	Oral History, Jake Hanna reflects on the fun he had with the great musicians in the Harry James band. Interview date February 24, 2006, NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Oral History Library

Jake Hanna
Jake Hanna
	Hanna at the West Texas Jazz Party, Midland, Texas
Background information
Born	April 4, 1931; Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	February 12, 2010 (aged 78); Los Angeles, California
Genres	Jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Drums
Years active	1950s–1990s
Labels	Concord Jazz

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.^[1] Hanna died on February 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California of complications from blood disease.