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 ...

Inventions and Dimensions(Blue Note,1963) is one of Herbie Hancock’s most unusual recordings. One rumor has it that Miles Davis, whose band Herbie was about to join, told Herbie to go make a latin ...

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock discusses his career and the power of music with WUWM's Maayan Silver. Jazz legend Herbie Hancock has produced dozens of albums — spanning jazz, funk, jazz-rock fusion and ...

*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 ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello The 1973 album proved that ...

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, ...

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 ...