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Break out your beach chair and shades for a groovy, sun-soaked Tuesday.

MBE Aug. 16: Open Mike Eagle’s spiritual mixtape, Herbie Hancock, house beats

Break out your beach chair and shades for a groovy, sun-soaked Tuesday.

from Morning Becomes Eclectic

Fatoumata Diawara

Continually re-imagining jazz, the ever-ingenious Oscar- and multiple Grammy-winning pianist Herbie Hancock will bring his newest mind-blowing explorations to life with his amazing new band. L.A. native Kamasi Washington’s groundbreaking debut album The Epic and his stunning live performances around the world have brought the legacy of 20th century jazz to a new cohort of millennial hip-hop […]

HERBIE HANCOCK • KAMASI WASHINGTON

Continually re-imagining jazz, the ever-ingenious Oscar- and multiple Grammy-winning pianist Herbie Hancock will bring his newest mind-blowing explorations to life with his amazing new band. L.A. native Kamasi Washington’s groundbreaking debut album The Epic and his stunning live performances around the world have brought the legacy of 20th century jazz to a new cohort of millennial hip-hop […]

Herbie Hancock’s memoir, Possibilities, has just been published, painting a revealing picture of one of the most influential jazz pianists ever.

Herbie Hancock on Possibilities

Herbie Hancock’s memoir, Possibilities, has just been published, painting a revealing picture of one of the most influential jazz pianists ever.

from Music News

Herbie Hancock is a giant in modern music, a jazz titan who’s nevertheless managed to achieve popular success as well. Lionized by musicians from both pop and jazz, he achieved fame as Miles Davis’ pianist. He's produced and recorded with scores of musicians. He joins Tom at 1pm.

Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock is a giant in modern music, a jazz titan who’s nevertheless managed to achieve popular success as well. Lionized by musicians from both pop and jazz, he achieved fame as Miles Davis’ pianist. He's produced and recorded with scores of musicians. He joins Tom at 1pm.

from Tom Schnabel's Rhythm Planet

One of music’s greatest innovators, Herbie Hancock, joined KCRW DJ Tom Schnabel this Sunday for an interview about his work that is now up in our archives.  Hancock just performed…

Herbie Hancock on KCRW

One of music’s greatest innovators, Herbie Hancock, joined KCRW DJ Tom Schnabel this Sunday for an interview about his work that is now up in our archives.  Hancock just performed…

from Music News


 Herbie Hancock’s The Imagine Project is an unprecedented international recording project featuring collaborations between the legendary multiple Grammy-winning artist and over a dozen superstars from every region of the planet.  Utilizing the universal language of music to express its central themes of peace and global responsibility, the musical collaborations combine Hancock’s genre-defying musical vision with the “local” musical identity of cultures from around the world.

Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project

Herbie Hancock’s The Imagine Project is an unprecedented international recording project featuring collaborations between the legendary multiple Grammy-winning artist and over a dozen superstars from every region of the planet. Utilizing the universal language of music to express its central themes of peace and global responsibility, the musical collaborations combine Hancock’s genre-defying musical vision with the “local” musical identity of cultures from around the world.

from Album Preview

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…

Herbie Hancock's Fabulous but Least-Known Album

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…

from Music News

For KCRW’s “Private Playlist,” Xinxin singer/guitarist Janize Ablaza spins the best music for interplanetary travel, including Herbie Hancock and Cibo Matto.

Private Playlist: Xinxin’s Janize Ablaza spins a soundtrack for space travel

For KCRW’s “Private Playlist,” Xinxin singer/guitarist Janize Ablaza spins the best music for interplanetary travel, including Herbie Hancock and Cibo Matto.

from Music Special Programming

We bring you another double-shot of great new music this week as part of KCRW’s Album Preview series!

Album Preview: The Chemical Brothers AND Herbie Hancock

We bring you another double-shot of great new music this week as part of KCRW’s Album Preview series!

from Music News

KCRW Partner Screening & Behind the Screens: ‘JAZZ FEST: A New Orleans Story’

Just Jazz Presents The Dayna Stephens Quartet

Robert Glasper Reimagines Ellington

Krishna Booker and Diana Purim continue the magical Brazilian jazz legacy of their respective parents as Eyedentity.

Eyedentity: ‘País Da Maravilha (Wonderland)’

Krishna Booker and Diana Purim continue the magical Brazilian jazz legacy of their respective parents as Eyedentity.

from Today's Top Tune

Just Jazz Presents Jamael Dean and the Afronauts

 Herbie Hancock is a giant in modern music, a jazz titan who’s nevertheless managed to achieve popular success as well. Lionized by musicians from both pop and jazz, he achieved fame as Miles Davis’ pianist. He's produced and recorded with scores of musicians. He joins Tom at 1pm.

Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock is a giant in modern music, a jazz titan who’s nevertheless managed to achieve popular success as well. Lionized by musicians from both pop and jazz, he achieved fame as Miles Davis’ pianist. He's produced and recorded with scores of musicians. He joins Tom at 1pm.

The LA Phil’s festival, “Power to the People!,” focuses on the role that artists play in advancing social change.

LA Phil’s Gustavo Dudamel aims to unite communities via ‘Power to the People!’

The LA Phil’s festival, “Power to the People!,” focuses on the role that artists play in advancing social change.

from Greater LA

Saturday, September 1 | Bennie Maupin | Bluewhale (Downtown) Bennie Maupin is a Los Angeles jazz treasure.

Rhythm Planet’s September Concert Picks

Saturday, September 1 | Bennie Maupin | Bluewhale (Downtown) Bennie Maupin is a Los Angeles jazz treasure.

from Music News

Join us as we listen to harpists from Dorothy Ashby to Brandee Younger and much much more

Exploring hip harpists, from Dorothy Ashby to Brandee Younger

Join us as we listen to harpists from Dorothy Ashby to Brandee Younger and much much more

from Morning Becomes Eclectic

10 Questions: Reckoning

This week, Tom examines the musical links between Ahmad Jamal, Miles Davis, George Shearing, Herbie Hancock, The Hi-Lo's and Cecile McLorin Salvant.

Musical DNA: Influence, Inspiration & Cross-Pollination

This week, Tom examines the musical links between Ahmad Jamal, Miles Davis, George Shearing, Herbie Hancock, The Hi-Lo's and Cecile McLorin Salvant.

from Tom Schnabel's Rhythm Planet

Different Fur Studios opened its doors in San Francisco’s Mission District in 1968.

Looped: Different Fur Recording Studios

Different Fur Studios opened its doors in San Francisco’s Mission District in 1968.

from Music News

Jazz bassist Christian McBride is one of the most recorded musicians of his generation.

Christian McBride makes room for all forms of jazz

Jazz bassist Christian McBride is one of the most recorded musicians of his generation.

from Arts & Culture Stories

Anne Litt and I celebrate Blue Note Records' 75th anniversary (and the book Uncompromising Expression) with music by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Norah Jones.

Blue Note Records Tribute on MBE

Anne Litt and I celebrate Blue Note Records' 75th anniversary (and the book Uncompromising Expression) with music by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Norah Jones.

from Tom Schnabel's Rhythm Planet

There have been very few dual-piano albums over the years.  There was An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, as well as the Labeque sisters, but these came out…

3 New Dual Piano albums—all coming out at once

There have been very few dual-piano albums over the years.  There was An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, as well as the Labeque sisters, but these came out…

from Music News