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Roland Pembroke Hanna (February 10, 1932 – November 13, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher.[1]

Roland Hanna
Roland Hanna with Ed Wiley, 2001
Background information
Birth name	Roland Pembroke Hanna
Born	(1932-02-10)February 10, 1932 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died	November 13, 2002(2002-11-13) (aged 70) Hackensack, New Jersey
Genres	Jazz, avant-garde, jazz fusion
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, bandleader
Instrument(s)	Piano, electric piano, cello

Biography

Hanna studied classical piano from the age of 11, but was strongly interested in jazz, having been introduced to it by his friend, pianist Tommy Flanagan.[2] This interest increased after his time in military service (1950–1952). He studied briefly at the Eastman School of Music in 1953 and then enrolled at the Juilliard School when he moved to New York City two years later.[2] He worked with several big names in the 1950s, including Benny Goodman and Charles Mingus, and graduated in 1960.[2] Between 1963 and 1966, Hanna led his own trio, then from 1966 to 1974 he was a regular member of The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra.[2] Hanna also toured the Soviet Union with the orchestra in 1972.[3] During the 1970s, he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet.

Roland Hanna was in semi-retirement for most of the 1980s, though he played piano and wrote the song "Seasons" for Sarah Vaughan's 1982 album Crazy and Mixed Up, and returned to music later in the decade. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hanna was a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.[2] Around this time, he also began composing chamber and orchestral music; a ballet he wrote has also been performed.[3]

In 1970, Hanna was given an honorary knighthood by President William Tubman of Liberia in recognition of concerts he played in the country to raise money for education.[2][4] Thereafter, Hanna was often known as "Sir Roland Hanna." Hanna was a professor of jazz at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College (CUNY) in Flushing, New York, and taught at several other music schools.[2] He was a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.[5]

He died in Hackensack, New Jersey, of a viral infection of the heart, on November 13, 2002.[2]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Year recorded	Title	Label	Personnel/Notes
1959	Destry Rides Again	ATCO	Trio/Quartet with George Duvivier, Roy Burns and Kenny Burrell[6]
1959	Easy to Love	ATCO	Trio with Ben Tucker and Roy Burns[6]
1971	Child of Gemini	MPS	Trio with Dave Holland and Daniel Humair[7]
1973	The New Heritage Keyboard Quartet	Blue Note	As The New Heritage Keyboard Quartet with Mickey Tucker, Richard Davis and Eddie Gladden
1973	Sir Elf:	Choice	Solo piano[8]
1974	Let It Happen	RCA	As The Jazz Piano Quartet with Dick Hyman, Hank Jones and Marian McPartland
1973 - 1974	Walkin'	Jazz Hour	Trio with George Mraz and Mel Lewis, Quartet with the trio plus Stéphane Grappelli
1974	Perugia	Freedom	Solo piano; in concert[9]
1974	Informal Solo	Hi-Fly	Solo piano
1974	1 X 1	Toho (Japan)	Duo with George Mraz
1976	Porgy & Bess	Trio (Japan)	Duo with George Mraz
1976	24 Preludes Book 1	Salvation (Japan)	Solo piano/Duo with George Mraz
1976	Roland Hanna Trio	Salvation (Japan)	Trio with Ron Carter and Ben Riley
1977	Time for the Dancers	Progressive	Trio with George Mraz and Richard Pratt - also released as At Home with Friends
1977	Sir Elf Plus 1	Choice	Solo piano/Duo with George Mraz[8]
1977	Glove	Trio (Japan)	Trio with George Mraz and Motohiko Hino[10]
1977	24 Preludes Book 2	Salvation (Japan)	Solo piano/Duo with George Mraz
1978	Roland Hanna Plays the Music of Alec Wilder	Inner City	Solo piano
1978	This Must Be Love	Progressive	Trio with George Mraz and Ben Riley[11]
1978	Rolandscape	Progressive	Trio with George Mraz and Ben Riley
1978	Bird Tracks	Progressive	Solo piano[12]
1978	Roland Hanna and George Mraz Play for Monk	Musical Heritage Society	Duo with George Mraz[13]
1978	A Gift from the Magi	West 54	Solo piano[14]
1979	Swing Me No Waltzes	Storyville	Solo piano[12]
1979	Trinity	L+R	Trio with Hans Koller and Attila Zoller
1979	Piano Soliloquy	L+R	Solo piano[10]
1979	Impressions	Black & Blue	Trio with Major Holley and Alan Dawson[9] - also released as Lover Come Back to Me from NORMA
1979	Och Jungfrun Gick Åt Killan...	Sonet	Solo piano
1979	Sunrise, Sunset	Lob (Japan)	Duo with George Mraz
1982	Romanesque	Trio (Japan)	Duo with George Mraz[10]
1982	Gershwin Carmichael Cats	CTI	Duo/Trio/Quartet/Quintet/Sextet/Dectet[15]
1987?	Manhattan Christmas	Fun House	Solo piano
1987	Round Midnight	Town Crier Recordings	Solo piano[6]
1987	This Time It's Real - Live At Slukefter-Tivoli Gardens	Storyville	Quartet with Jesper Thilo, Mads Winding and Aage Tanggaard; in concert[9]
1987	Persia My Dear	DIW	Trio with Richard Davis and Freddie Waits[9]
1988	The Bar	Fun House	Trio with Clint Houston and Lewis Nash
1990	Duke Ellington Piano Solos	MusicMasters	Solo piano[9]
1990	Memoir	Century (Japan)	Duo with Eiji Nakayama
1993	Sir Roland Hanna Quartet Plays Gershwin	LRC/Laserlight[6]	Quartet with Bill Easley, Jon Burr and Ronnie Burrage
1993	Maybeck Recital Hall Series, Volume Thirty-Two	Concord	Solo piano; in concert[9]
1994?	Jazz Sonatas	Angel	Duo with Dick Hyman and Quartet with chamber trio
1996	3 for All	Cymekob Enterprises	Trio with Bucky Pizzarelli and Jon Burr
1996	Hush A Bye	What'sNew (Japan)	Trio with Eiji Nakayama and Seiji Komatsu
1997	The Three Black Kings	Jazz Friends Productions	Trio with Richard Davis and Andrew Cyrille
1998?	Family & Friends	Prestige Elite	with Michael Hanna(Vo.)
1998?	I Love Be-Bop	Rahanna Music	Trio with Yoshio Aomori(b) and Cris Roselli(ds)
1998	Royal Essence: An Evening of Ellington	Jazzmont	Duo with Davey Yarborough; in concert
1995	Ancestral Light	Red Earth Jazz	Duo with George Mraz
2001	Dream	Venus	Trio with Paul West and Eddie Locke (drums)[16][17]
2002	Milano, Paris, New York: Finding John Lewis	Venus	Trio with George Mraz and Lewis Nash[18]
2002	Everything I Love	IPO	Solo piano[6]
2002	I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues	IPO	Duo with Carrie Smith[6]
2002	Tributaries: Reflections on Tommy Flanagan	IPO	Solo piano[6]
2002	Après Un Rêve	Venus	Trio with Ron Carter and Grady Tate[18]
2002	Last Concert	What's New (Japan)	Duo with Eiji Nakayaｍa, Duo with Mihoko Hazama, trio with Eiji Nakayaｍa and Mihoko Hazama; in concert

Compilations

• Colors from a Giant's Kit (IPO)

With the New York Jazz Quartet

• In Concert in Japan with Ron Carter, Ben Riley, Frank Wess (Salvation, 1975)
• Surge with George Mraz, Richard Pratt, Frank Wess, (Enja, 1977)
• Song of the Black Knight with George Mraz, Richard Pratt, Frank Wess (Sonet, 1978)
• Blues for Sarka with George Mraz, Grady Tate, Frank Wess (Enja, 1978)
• Oasis with George Mraz, Ben Riley, Frank Wess (Enja, 1981)
• The New York Jazz Quartet in Chicago with George Mraz, Ben Riley, Frank Wess (Bee Hive, 1981)

With Mingus Dynasty

• Live At Montreux (Atlantic 1981)
• Reincarnation (Soul Note 1982)
• Mingus' Sounds Of Love (Soul Note 1988)
• Live At The Village Vanguard (Storyville 1989)
• Epitaph (Charles Mingus composition) (As Mingus) (Columbia 1990)

As sideman

With Pepper Adams

• Ephemera (Spotlite, 1973)
• Reflectory (Muse, 1978)

With Gene Ammons

• My Way (Prestige, 1971)

With George Benson

• Good King Bad (CTI, 1975)

With Dee Dee Bridgewater

• Afro Blue (Trio, 1974)

With Ruth Brown

• Ruth Brown '65 (Mainstream, 1965)

With Kenny Burrell

• Swingin' (Blue Note, 1956 [rel. 1980])
• On View at the Five Spot Cafe (Blue Note, 1959)
• Asphalt Canyon Suite (Verve, 1969)
• Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Fantasy, 1975)

With Benny Carter

• In the Mood for Swing (MusicMasters, 1988)

With Ron Carter

• All Blues (CTI, 1973)
• Spanish Blue (CTI, 1974)
• Stardust (Somethin' Else, 2001)

With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

• Love Calls (RCA Victor, 1968)

With Richard Davis

• Muses for Richard Davis (MPS, 1969)
• Persia My Dear (DIW, 1987)

With Eddie Daniels

• First Prize! (Prestige 1967)

With Jon Faddis and Billy Harper

• Jon & Billy (Trio, 1974)

With Stéphane Grappelli

• Meets the Rhythm Section (1973)

With John Handy

• In the Vernacular (Roulette, 1958)

With Jimmy Heath

• Little Man Big Band (Verve, 1992)

With Al Hibbler

• Early One Morning (LMI, 1964)

With Freddie Hubbard

• The Hub of Hubbard (MPS, 1970)

With Elvin Jones

• Dear John C. (Impulse!, 1965)
• Very R.A.R.E. (Trio (Japan), 1979)

With Jim Hall

• Concierto (CTI,1975)

With Miriam Klein

• By Myself (L+R, 1979)

With Jimmy Knepper

• Cunningbird (SteepleChase, 1977)
• I Dream Too Much (Soul Note, 1984)

With Hubert Laws

• Laws' Cause (Atlantic, 1968)

With Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

• Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – Jazz At Lincoln Center: They Came To Swing (Sony, 1992)

With Herbie Mann

• Glory of Love (A&M, 1967)

With Les McCann

• Comment (Atlantic, 1970)

With Charles Mingus

• Mingus Dynasty (Columbia, 1959)

With Frank Morgan

• You Must Believe in Spring (Antilles, 1992)

With Idris Muhammad

• House of the Rising Sun (Kudu, 1976)

With Ray Nance

• Body and Soul (Solid State, 1969)

With Kwame Nkrumah

• The Ninth Son (Columbia, 1969)

With Seldon Powell

• Seldon Powell Sextet Featuring Jimmy Cleveland (Roost 1956)

With Red Rodney

• The Red Tornado (Muse, 1975)
• Red, White and Blues (Muse, 1978)
• The 3R's (Muse, 1979 [1982])

With Don Sebesky

• The Rape of El Morro (CTI, 1975)

With Louis Smith (musician)

• Prancin (Steeple Chase 1979)

With Sonny Stitt

• Mr. Bojangles (Cadet, 1973)
• Satan (Cadet, 1974)

With Stanley Turrentine

• If I Could (MusicMasters, 1993)

With Phil Woods

• Round Trip (Verve, 1969)

References

External links

• rahannamusic.com
• Sir Roland Hanna at allaboutjazz.com

На других языках

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[es] Roland Hanna

Roland Hanna (Detroit, Míchigan, 10 de febrero de 1932 - Hackensack, Nueva Jersey, 13 de noviembre de 2002) fue un pianista y compositor estadounidense de jazz, que desarrolló su obra dentro de los estilos hard bop y jazz fusión.

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