{"id":2061,"date":"2010-05-19T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2010-05-19T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:05:00","slug":"hank_alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/05\/hank_alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hank Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The New York Times<\/em> &#8220;City Room&#8221; blog, Corey Kilgannon and Andy Newman have a strange, poignant followup to the news of Hank Jones&#8217;s death. No one who knew Hank will be surprised at the selflessness it portrays or be unmoved by its tale of loneliness.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He stayed active till the very end, collecting a Grammy last year and touring the world. But when he wasn&#8217;t on the road, he lived in near isolation in a 12-by-12-foot room at 108th Street and Broadway, ordering in three meals a day from the diner downstairs and practicing incessantly on an electric keyboard plugged into headphones.<br \/>\n&#8220;He was worried he would bother the neighbors,&#8221; said Mr. Jones&#8217;s roommate and landlord, Manny Ramirez. &#8220;The neighbors would ask, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t we hear Hank anymore?&#8217; I said, &#8216;He locks himself in his room all the time.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the whole thing, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/18\/a-jazzmans-final-refuge\/?hp\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The New York Times &#8220;City Room&#8221; blog, Corey Kilgannon and Andy Newman have a strange, poignant followup to the news of Hank Jones&#8217;s death. No one who knew Hank will be surprised at the selflessness it portrays or be unmoved by its tale of loneliness. &nbsp; He stayed active till the very end, collecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}