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 ...

Legendary jazz icon Herbie Hancock will bring his 2025 North American Fall Tour to The Kentucky Center’s Whitney Hall on ...

Herbie Hancock likes to surprise us. Remember when the post-bop stalwart went funk/soul/jazz on "Head Hunters" in 1973? Remember when he went hip-hop/jazz with the 1983 dance-club instrumental smash ...

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 ...

Genre-leaping keyboard legend Herbie Hancock has an update for fans eagerly anticipating his new album — originally due out in 2020 — featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar, West ...

Genre-leaping keyboard legend Herbie Hancock has an update for fans eagerly anticipating his new album — originally due out in 2020 — featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar, West ...