Herbie Hancock News

"Don't underestimate the things that I will do," the superstar nominee sings on her album "21." At Sunday's awards, we'll find out.

Trombonist Julian Priester's career spans most of the twists and turns in Jazz styles over the past forty years.

There's no shortage of stars, real and imagined, visible along Hollywood's Walk of Fame, but even by Tinseltown standards, Paul McCartney ramped up the quotient Thursday in getting his own belated star.

Phil wishes he was a musician but he's not frustrated by it. He's frustrated with a lot of other aspects of the so-called biz.

To Celebrate Mr. Wynton Marsalis 's 50th Birthday Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will return to Atlanta Symphony Hall on Saturday, March 3, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. to perform a program featuring popular works from Theolonious Monk and Herbie Hancock .

The Munich-based company will be honored by the Recording Academy with its Technical Grammy, which is given in recognition of "contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field" on February 11th.

DC writes regularly about rock and roll, jazz and the blues, composing reviews of CD's, DVD's, live performances, books and films, as well as conducting interviews.

The superlatives, accolades, and honors Herbie Hancock has received in his long illustrious career are innumerable and all well-deserved. Like his classic 1970s composition 'Chameleon" suggests, Hancock constantly changes his musical cover but always with a solid foundation of jazz.

The timeless Curtis Fuller has been a brand name trombone player for about 50 years now and he's never sounded better than he does on his two new releases, Up Jumped Spring and Keep It Simple , which will enhance his standing as one of the bright and enduring stars in the jazz firmament.

Kama Ruby - Fri. & Sat., Feb. 10 & 11 and Sat., Feb. 25 King Tut; Sat., Feb. 18 Que Pasa; Tues., Feb.

In addition to producing his new discovery, singer/nu-hip spoken word artist Tony Adamo's CD, he had to bring in the right mixer/engineer who could funk the tracks for Adamo's groove vocabulary and triplet soul-jazz voicing's. Clark was looking for a mixing fool of an engineer who could dig the new perspective on the nu-hip speak vocals that he and ... (more)

The 54th annual Grammy Awards are gearing up to take place at the Staples Center on February 12th, and when they do, they will be much slimmer than previous ceremonies.

The band hits the stage 8 p.m., Saturday at the Duncan Garage Showroom, 330 Duncan Street.

Ralphe Armstrong on stage at the UDetroit Cafe. He has played with Jean-Luc Ponty, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock and many others.

Musical riddle time: What do you get when you mix a Hawaii-born, Brooklyn-based jazz artist with a French pianist and a drummer from Guam? You get The North , a newly formed jazz trio, which happens to be playing a surprise concert at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

Jazz great Herbie Hancock performs with his band at the 2011 Monterey Jazz Festival, in Monterey Sept 17, 2011.

Scott Thompson is Assistant Director of Public Relations for Jazz at Lincoln Center, and has penned the liner notes for Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and Weather Report's 8:30. He has also contributed to Down Beat, Jazz Times and Jazziz.

It's not hard to find examples of jazz records dedicated to great songwriters. Miles Davis recorded an album of Richard Rodgers tunes, Herbie Hancock released an all-Gershwin CD, and The Wee Trio has just put out an album of David Bowie songs.

Sid Vicious, the infamous bassist for the Sex Pistols, once described their tunes this way: "You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music." Promising something slightly more complex, the Glenn Martin Quintet will be playing songs from such composers as Jobim, Herbie Hancock, Rodgers & Hart, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis at the Bull & ... (more)

Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, and bandleader Chucho Valdes performed at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Jan.