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Just Jazz with Bob Bernotas Presents the April Artist of the Month: pianist Hank Jones. During the month of April Just Jazz host Bob Bernotas will feature the music of his Artist of the Month, pianist Hank Jones In 1989 pianist Dick Katz remarked, "Ask almost any jazz pianist to name his favorite living colleague, and chances are he will say Hank Jones." A brilliant soloist, sensitive accompanist, and resourceful ensemble player, the versatile Jones (1981-2010) was universally regarded as not just the "pianists' pianist," but as the "musicians' pianist." The list of artists with whom this consummate professional performed in a career that began in 1944, when he moved to New York from his native Detroit, reads like a virtual encyclopedia of jazz. As Jones once mused, "People heard me and said, 'Well, this is not just a boy from the country – maybe he knows a few chords.'"