Editing Jon Hendricks (section)

==Lambert, Hendricks and Ross==
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[[File:Jon Hendricks KK.jpg|thumb|Hendricks at the [[Keystone Korner]] in San Francisco, 1983]]
After several years during which he wrote several songs for [[Louis Jordan]] and recorded with [[King Pleasure]], he teamed up with [[Dave Lambert (American jazz vocalist)|Dave Lambert]], who conceived the idea to record a selection of [[Count Basie]]'s instrumental numbers with voices replacing the Basie orchestra's wind instruments. Jon wrote the lyrics, and they sold the idea to [[Creed Taylor]], who had recently started working as an [[Artists and repertoire|A&R]] man for ABC-Paramount Ampar. After a disastrous initial attempt to record the songs with a choir, they decided to [[Multitrack recording|multi-track]] their own voices, with [[Annie Ross]] providing the high notes. It was not the first time the technique of overdubbing had been used, but it was an early and innovative example. The result was a best-selling album, ''[[Sing a Song of Basie]].'' Its success prompted them to form the legendary vocal trio [[Lambert, Hendricks & Ross]] (LH&R). With Hendricks as lyricist and Lambert as arranger, the trio perfected the art of [[vocalese]] and took it around the world, earning them numerous awards and accolades. In September 1959, they appeared on the cover of [[DownBeat|Down Beat]] under the headline "[[The Hottest New Group in Jazz]]", which they adopted as the title of their [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]-nominated fourth album.

Hendricks typically wrote lyrics not just to melodies but to entire instrumental solos, a notable example being his take on [[Ben Webster]]'s tenor saxophone solo on [[Duke Ellington]]'s original recording of "[[Cotton Tail]]", as featured on the album ''Lambert, Hendricks and Ross Sing Ellington'' (1960). His lyrics to [[Benny Golson]]'s "[[I Remember Clifford (song)|I Remember Clifford]]" have been recorded by several other vocalists, including [[Dinah Washington]], [[Carmen McRae]], [[Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)|Nancy Wilson]], [[Ray Charles]], [[The Manhattan Transfer]] and [[Helen Merrill]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=I Remember Clifford|url=https://secondhandsongs.com/work/125203/versions#nav-entity|access-date=February 24, 2021|website=Secondhand Songs}}</ref>

From 1957 through 1962, the trio recorded six albums, including ''High Flying'' (1961), which won a Grammy for Best Performance by a Vocal Group, before Annie Ross departed due to health problems. She was replaced by [[Yolande Bavan]], and the group was billed as Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan for the three live albums they recorded, 1962–64.

Countless singers cite the work of LH&R as an influence, including [[Joni Mitchell]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=95|title=Joni Mitchell Makes Mingus Sing|date=September 6, 1979|work=Down Beat|access-date=November 3, 2019}}</ref> [[Van Morrison]], Al Jarreau and [[Bobby McFerrin]]. The song "[[Yeh Yeh]]", for which Hendricks composed the lyrics, became a no.1 hit in 1965 for British R&B-jazz singer [[Georgie Fame]], who continues to record and perform Lambert, Hendricks & Ross compositions to this day. In 1966 Hendricks recorded "Fire in the City" with the Warlocks, who shortly after changed their name to the [[Grateful Dead]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/gd1966-12-05.sbd.kimbro.23064.sbeok.shnf|title=Grateful Dead Live at Studio on 5 December 1966|last=Grateful Dead|date=December 5, 1966|access-date=November 23, 2017|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Hendricks wrote lyrics for several [[Thelonious Monk]] songs, including "[[In Walked Bud]]", which he performed on Monk's 1968 album ''[[Underground (Thelonious Monk album)|Underground]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Underground|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/underground-mw0000649656|access-date=February 25, 2021|website=AllMusic}}</ref>

For a performance at the 1960 [[Monterey Jazz Festival]], he created and starred in a musical he called ''Evolution of the Blues Song'' (later shortened to ''Evolution of the Blues''), which featured such acclaimed singers as [[Jimmy Witherspoon]], Hannah Dean, and [[Big Miller|"Big" Miller]], as well as saxophonists [[Ben Webster]] and [[Pony Poindexter]].<ref name="thisisbop" /> The ensemble played not only Hendricks's words and music but also [[Percy Mayfield]]'s classic "[[Please Send Me Someone to Love]]", the driving D. Love gospel song "That's Enough", and the blues evergreen, "[[C.C. Rider]]". In 1961, Columbia Records released an LP of the production and Hendricks later presented the show at the On Broadway Theater in San Francisco, where it ran for five years, and at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles, where it was produced by attorneys Burton Marks and Mark Green.<ref name="thisisbop" />