Herbie Hancock

When we ran into Herbie Hancock at Diddy's 40th birthday party last week at the Plaza Hotel, we asked him what he would call himself if he ever became a rapper. Read More

Halloween’s coming and the days are growing colder, but the special events calendar at Musicians Institute ( www.mi.edu ) is heating up with several exciting late October special seminar and clinic events. Read More

Herbert Hancock's yen for music often bugged his dad. Read More

This was jazz's return to modality, with a funky twist. Read More

Jazz St. Louis will feature the music of Herbie Hancock in two upcoming programs that were announced this week. Read More

After Herbie Hancock won the 2008 album of the year Grammy Award for "River: The Joni Letters," he did what anyone would do following a tremendous professional accomplishment: He sat down to watch TV. Read More

That Herbie Hancock is basically an abstract player is the secret of his versatility of style—which is another way of saying that he has no stable sense of taste, being willing to play a line of notes in almost any idiom or sound-world if it fits. Read More

That Herbie Hancock is basically an abstract player is the secret of his versatility of style—which is another way of saying that he has no stable sense of taste, being willing to play a line of notes in almost any idiom or sound-world if it fits. Read More