Grammy-winning applesauce pianist HANK JONES has died, age-old 91.
Jones anesthetized abroad at a New York hospital on Sunday night (16May10) afterwards a abrupt illness, his administrator Jean Pierre Leduc confirms.
During his decades-long career, he performed with applesauce greats including Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Goodman.
He won a lifetime accomplishment accolade at the Grammys aftermost year (09), in accession to actuality voted pianist of the year at the 2009 Applesauce Awards. Jones was additionally honoured with the National Medal of Arts in 2008.
He connected to comedy on able-bodied into old age, and was appointed to accomplish at the battleground Birdland Applesauce Club in New York City abutting anniversary (ends23May10
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