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 ...
In honor of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, theGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” utilizing the turntablism of Grandmixer DXT, helped hip-hop earn the respect of music critics and ...
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 ...
“Yo, son, I’ll tell you everything you wanna know about Herbie Hancock,” says Hip-Hop Nick, my swaggering Lebanese Phishhead-turned-jazzbo-turned-B-boy-producer neighbor from down the hall. “I know ...
*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 ...