Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? MARK MAINZ/AP IMAGESJoni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock perform in Los Angeles ...

I always enjoy working with new forms, new idioms. I take them on as a learning experience, a challenge. [Herbie Hancock has a long history of mixing it up—from jazz to funk, pop, and everything in ...

In 1973, Herbie Hancock found himself at a crossroads. For a couple years, the keyboardist had been leading a band called Mwandishi — named after a Swahili word meaning “writer” — that played ...

Since the famous pianist Herbie Hancock rarely visits our li’l Triangle burg, it’s a bona fide lock that his upcoming Nov. 15 show in Durham will be special. The entourage of the eternally youthful 62 ...

Jesse Fischerand Sly5thAvepay homage to the jazz pioneers that very much shaped their musicality today by revamping a Herbie Hancock classic. Jesse Fischer and Sly5thAve create a house rendition of ...

There was a woman sitting on her four-wheeled walker near the soundboard for most of Herbie Hancock’s two-hour set Monday night at the Denver Botanic Gardens. She seemed to be digging the show. When ...

Hancock’s entrance onto the Barbican stage was greeted with a loud roar. Two hours later, the final sequence of the tunes which one would expect had the complete packed house up on its feet, with the ...

Watermelon Man; 'Round Midnight; Cantaloupe Island; Maiden Voyage; Circle; The Sorcerer; Tell Me a Bedtime Story; Hidden Shadows; Chameleon; Joanna's Theme; Butterfly ...

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 ...

*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 ...