Editing Jon Hendricks (section)

{{short description|American jazz lyricist and singer (1921–2017)}}

{{about|the jazz musician|other people with similar names|John Hendricks (disambiguation)}}
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| name             = Jon Hendricks
| image            = Jon_Hendricks_0157.jpg
| caption          = Hendricks in 2008
| background       = solo_singer
| birth_name       = John Carl Hendricks
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1921|9|16}}
| birth_place      = [[Newark, Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2017|11|22|1921|9|16}}
| death_place      = New York City, U.S.
| genre            = [[Jazz]]
| occupation       = Singer, lyricist
| years_active     = 1957–2017
|past_member_of= [[Lambert, Hendricks & Ross]]
| spouse           = {{Unbulleted list
  | {{marriage|Colleen Moore|||reason=divorced}}<ref name="Obit"/>
  | {{marriage|Judith Hendricks||2015|reason=death}}
   }}
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'''John Carl Hendricks''' (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as '''Jon Hendricks''', was an American [[jazz]] lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of [[vocalese]], which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists, such as the big-band arrangements of [[Duke Ellington]] and [[Count Basie]]. He is considered one of the best practitioners of [[scat singing]], which involves vocal jazz soloing. Jazz critic and historian [[Leonard Feather]] called him the "Poet Laureate of Jazz", while ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' dubbed him the "[[James Joyce]] of Jive". [[Al Jarreau]] called him "pound-for-pound the best jazz singer on the planet—maybe that's ever been".<ref>''Artist Confidential'' interview with Al Jarreau. XM Radio, 2007.</ref>