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 ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The Pabst Theater will soon host a celebrated musical legend, bringing a unique blend of jazz and contemporary sounds to the city. Herbie Hancock, a renowned jazz pianist and ...

Musician and composer Herbie Hancock's career has careened from straight jazz to experimental electronic music over the decades, with his surprise 1983 break-dancing hit, "Rockit," helping set the ...

WASHINGTON — He received the Grammys’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. This Tuesday, jazz legend Herbie Hancock performs live at the Kennedy Center at 8 p.m. “I hope you expect a surprise,” Hancock ...

Randall Kline had just one thing on his mind when the SFJazz Center finally opened its doors in January 2013: "Was it going to work?" he said, recalling the frantic rush to put the finishing touches ...

American jazz legend Herbie Hancock has announced his Australian tour for 2024 in October, his first visit since 2019. The tour will kick off at Sydney’s Opera House Concert Hall on October 11 and 12, ...

Herbie Hancock is from the land of the “Go.” That’s Chicago, and it’s a longshot, but maybe part of the Windy City’s proficiency in Hip-Hop music can be traced back to Hancock’s use of scratching in ...

Hate practising? Wondering why you never finish any new music? Spending too much time on social media? Well that’s at three things you’ve got in common with Herbie Hancock. The jazz fusion/electro hip ...

Herbie Hancock has had the kind of career that’s unlikely to ever be duplicated. Appearing on landmark recordings with Miles Davis as well as his own band in the 1960s, Hancock memorably scaled to ...

"Possibilities" is an intimate documentary about Herbie Hancock and his in-studio collaborations with a dozen formidable pop recording artists, collaborations that explore the unexpected, like jazz ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

WASHINGTON — He received the Grammys’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. This Tuesday, jazz legend Herbie Hancock performs live at the Kennedy Center at 8 p.m. “I hope you expect a surprise,” Hancock ...