The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album,...
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Herbie Hancock explains how he composed Watermelon Man and how Mongo Santamaria influenced it....
Electric Miles. Few word pairings in the jazz lexicon are apt to inspire so...
Last November I was Callin’ the Spirits at Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica with...
Crosscurrents Trio, “Good Hope” The English jazz bassist Dave Holland and the Indian tabla...
It was winter in late 1988 and a fax arrived in my newspaper office...
South African piano guru Abdullah Ibrahim brings deep illumination to afternoon jazz: Photos, Videos
“The purest thing between heaven and earth is love,” says Abdullah Ibrahim, “and sincerity...
Herbie Hancock on cultural exchange, new horizons, and “the Survival of Planet Earth”: Photos, Video
Whatever else you call Herbie Hancock — jazz-piano paragon, funk-fusion pioneer, Afro-Futurist, humanitarian, sage...
The National Trust is hoping to preserve the North Carolina house where Simone first...
A number of stars have rallied behind a concert to pay tribute to Michel...
Chucho Valdes toasts a lineage as well as a heritage with his new album, Jazz Bata 2: Photos, Videos
As the Cuban maestro prepares for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! on Wednesday, here’s the story behind his...
Louis Armstrong has served as the focus of many works of literature. Now, a few...
