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Jon Hendricks

Newark, United States

Jon Hendricks is credited on 4,017 releases across 1,043 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1953–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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4,017

Pressings credited

1,043

Albums

8

Decades active

685

In collections

Biography

John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists, such as the big-band arrangements of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. He is considered one of the best practitioners of scat singing, which involves vocal jazz soloing. Jazz critic and historian Leonard Feather called him the "Poet Laureate of Jazz", while Time dubbed him the "James Joyce of Jive". Al Jarreau called him "pound-for-pound the best jazz singer on the planet—maybe that's ever been".

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4,017 releases · 1,043 albums · active 1953–2025

  • Performance · 5,351
  • Other credits · 201
  • Production · 14

Studios: Mediasound · Birdland · The Hit Factory · Carnegie Hall

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