Jon Hendricks, the 'James Joyce of jazz,' dies at 96
by Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times
Nov 27, 2017
3 minutes
Jon Hendricks, the pioneering jazz singer and lyricist with the vocal ensemble Lambert, Hendricks & Ross who helped create an inventive jazz vocal technique called 'vocalese,' has died.
Hendricks died Wednesday in New York City, his daughter, Aria Hendricks, said. He was 96.
When Hendricks arrived on the jazz scene in the '50s, his mastery of 'vocalese' - an expansion of scat singing - had a powerful influence on the musical tenor of
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