Happy Birthday To The Great DIVA Barbara Hendricks Music: Rigoletto By: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Features: Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Opera Stars

Remembering the great Jon Hendricks on his birthday. TIME Magazine called him "James Joyce of jive." First and foremost, he was a storyteller: funny, dexterous with language and erudite. Jon Hendricks could reference practically anything in his lyrics – from the controversy over Shakespeare's identity to the Spanish Civil War – and make them swing. He was the innovator of "Vocalise" and with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, set the standard to so many jazz groups and singers to follow. Here he is wi