This site is dedicated to the legacy of the great jazz drummer Jake Hanna.
Here you will find information about his career, his music, his humor, a celebration of his life, and the book currently being written about him.
Jake began playing the drums in 1938 with the St. Brendan’s Drum and Bugle Corps in his hometown of Dorchester, Mass.
This began a 70 year career that started in big bands (Harry James, Woody Herman) moved on to studio orchestras (10 years with the Merv Griffin Show) and wound up in independent work with singers (Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Roberta Gambarini) instrumentalists (Oscar Peterson) and small bands (Marian McPartland, Hanna Fontana, SuperSax, Howard Alden’s East Coast All Stars).