Herbie Hancock is jazz’s enduring rock star, but he knows his way around classical music, too. After the esteemed keyboardist, cellphone in hand, ambled onstage to a standing ovation Thursday night at ...
TheGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Head Hunters” album signaled a funky turn in so-called jazz music and stood out from the big name fusion bands of the time. In 1969, Miles Davis released his ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio - It’s been 61 years and more than 40 studio albums since Herbie Hancock’s aptly titled debut “Takin’ Off” was released on Blue Note Records. In those decades, Hancock has proven to be ...
*I have to hand it to Herbie Hancock. He turned what has been promoted for months as a 50th-anniversary reunion of the band that recorded the seminal 1973 Jazz-Funk Fusion LP, Head Hunters (also the ...
Ah, to tour as Herbie Hancock. The Chicago native, turning 84 next week, is one of music’s most catalytic forces — never mind in jazz, where he first made his name as a member of Miles Davis’s second ...
Syracuse, N.Y. — Legendary jazz artists Herbie Hancock and Gladys Knight will grace the Syracuse Jazz Fest stage in Clinton Square this June. Hancock and Knight will cap the main days of the free ...
We asked musicians and experts, including Thundercat, Patrice Rushen and Nicole Sweeney, which Hancock song they would play for a friend. By Marcus J. Moore Over the past few months, The New York ...
In 1969, Miles Davis released his album, “In a Silent Way.” While he had already slowly started incorporating electric instrumentation into his work a couple of years before, “In a Silent Way” set the ...