Jazz thrived around the world in 2025, with major events taking place everywhere from San Diego and Tijuana to Abu Dhabi and ...

"I'm not a musician": Jazz legend Herbie Hancock opens up about music, science, and his relationship with Benjamin Franklin. Oliver St. Clair Franklin, Honorary British Consul of the RSA, presents ...

Herbie Hancock and Carlos Santana In The Studio, circa 1980 (Photo: Hancock Archives) From his earliest days as a pianist for Donald Byrd, then Miles Davis, up through his work in the 1960s, 1970s, ...

To some people, Herbie Hancock is the synth-savvy funk god behind the 1983 hit “Rockit.” To others he is the abstract, ethereal, Debussy-influenced pianist behind 1960s jazz LPs such as Maiden Voyage, ...

The last time I talked to Herbie Hancock, he’d been up all night talking to Joni Mitchell. Turns out the two Angelenos weren’t just shooting the breeze — they were planting the seeds of a new Mitchell ...

UNESCO AND HERBIE HANCOCK ANNOUNCE THE FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY ON APRIL 30 FEATURING ALL-STAR CONCERTS IN PARIS, NEW ORLEANS AND NEW YORK UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and UNESCO ...

Herbie Hancock took a moment during the International Jazz Day All-Star Global Concert to address some fraught geopolitical realities. Not that Hancock, in his dual capacity as UNESCO goodwill ...

One of the first jazz musicians from Poland to gain an international following, he recorded more than 60 albums and played ...

Speak Like a Child feels like the mash-up of two separate albums. One is a lyrical set of three tunes--mellow songs with childhood themes. The other is a standard set of three bop tunes. Both are nice ...

When Herbie Hancock’s album, “River: The Joni Letters,” won the Grammy for Album of the Year in February, everyone was asking: How could a jazz album win? The only other jazz disc to snag the top ...

Herbie Hancock has grand plans for his new position as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair for jazz. By The Associated Press Herbie Hancock has grand plans for his new position as the Los ...