When Herbie Hancock moves his hands across a piano, the notes come and go the way sunlight sparkles on the ocean. Does that make his music pleasant or sublime? It feels like it can go either way ...

“Herbie’s records got played right in there.” Image Hancock, right and bottom, in his California home. Even as it brought in a flood of new listeners, his aesthetic shift on “Head Hunters ...

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 ...

In 1973, jazz great Herbie Hancock put together a new backing band and made an album that engaged directly with the vanguard of popular music. The funky, accessible Head Hunters became a landmark ...

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 ...

Herbie Hancock’s August 14 performance of “Head Hunters” at the Hollywood Bowl marks the first time in 50 years that the jazz keyboardist and composer reunited with the collaborators that ...

Herbie Hancock is an American jazz musician and composer. Born in Chicago, Herbie began playing the piano at seven years old and went on to win an Academy Award and 14 Grammys, including Album of ...

Herbie Hancock is an all-time jazz great, so it is reassuring to hear that he suffers from the same modern day procrastination problems as the rest of us mere mortals. "I fall into rabbit holes on ...