Hanna was a professor of jazz at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College (CUNY) in Flushing, New York, and taught at several other music schools. Hanna is often referred to as “Sir Roland Hanna” as he was given an honorary knighthood by President William Tubman of Liberia in 1970. Around this time, he also began composing chamber and orchestral music a ballet he wrote has also been performed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hanna was a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Roland Hanna was in semi-retirement for most of the 1980s, though he played piano and wrote the song “Seasons” for Sarah Vaughan’s 1982 album Crazy and Mixed Up, and returned to music later in the decade. During the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet. Hanna also toured the Soviet Union with this orchestra in 1972. Between 19 Hanna led his own trio, then from 1966 to 1974 he was a regular member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. He worked with several big names in the 1950s, including Benny Goodman and Charles Mingus, and graduated in 1960.
He studied briefly at the Eastman School of Music in 1953 and then enrolled at the Juilliard School when he moved to New York two years later. Things Ain’t What They Used To Be / Please Send Me Someone To Love / Asphalt Canyon Suite 1 & 2 / Going To Jim’s And Andy’s / Alone In The City / Sugar Hill / Put A Little Love In Your Heart. This interest increased after his time in military service, 1950–52. Roland Hann (p) Kenny Burrell (g) Johnny Pate (dir) Orchestra. Hanna studied classical piano from the age of 11, but was strongly interested in jazz, having been introduced to it by his friend, pianist Tommy Flanagan. Roland Pembroke Hanna (Februin Detroit, Michigan – Novemin Hackensack, New Jersey) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher. Barnes & Noble® has the best selection of Television Television CDs.
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