Jon Hendricks

Award-winning jazz vocal legend Hendricks is the father of jazz 'vocalese': singing words to previously instrumental melodies. Best remembered for his 1985 album 'Vocalese', which earned him seven Grammys, he is a forebear to the likes of Mark Murphy, Kurt Elling and a contemporary of the great John Lucien, and remains, effortlessly hip, at the top of the pantheon of jazz singers.