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Herbie Hancock at the Playboy Jazz Festival
The 30th Playboy jazz Fest at the Hollywod Bowl Saturday and Sunday. The pianist-composer continues his banner year with a headling performance at the fest. HERBIE HANCOCK'S performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival this Sunday comes in the midst of a bountiful year. Yes, the veteran jazz pianist/composer's Hollywood Hills home glistens with the an impressive ...
Herbie Hancock Headlines 30th Playboy Jazz Festival
Gentlemen Start Your Engines, the 30th Anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival About to Begin! Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl Saturday & Sunday, June 14 & 15, 2008 Save the date for Playboy's annual celebration of jazz and blues with a spectacular array of musical talents. This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the event that ...
Herbie Hancock Tours North America With "River"
Jazz visionary Herbie Hancock will launch an international tour next month to support his latest Grammy-winning album, River: The Joni Letters. [National Recording Registry on Wednesday, part of the Library of Congress will preserve for “culturally, historically or aesthetically significants," inducted jazz artist Herbie Hancock's 1973 fusion smash Headhunters.] The keyboardist/composer will kick things off May ...
Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters" Among Cultural Treasures
Library of Congress Cultural Treasures The best-selling pop album on planet Earth and a disc sent hurtling into deep space are among recordings the Library of Congress will preserve for their cultural significance. Twenty-five selections were added to the National Recording Registry on Wednesday, part of the library's attempt to save America's aural history by archiving ...
Herbie's Take on Joni Mitchell, and the Value of Gigging
by Fradley Garner
Herbie Hancock, winner of the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy for River: The Joni Letters, took the stage with collaborator and inspiration Joni Mitchell when he taped a show for Nissan Live Sets that debuted April 1 on Yahoo! Music. Mitchell sang three of her songs, “River," “Tea Leaf Prophecy" and “Hana." Hancock, backed by ...
Herbie Hancock: River: The Joni Letters
by George Kanzler
The participation of such former and present Grammy nominees and winners as Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza and Leonard Cohen (reading “The Jungle Line" like a beat poet), as well as the iconic stature of Joni Mitchell herself, may have immeasurably helped in winning this CD the Grammy Album of the Year ...
A Victory for Jazz, or Just Grammy Being Grammy?
When something newsworthy or popular or positive happens to a jazz musician -- a big award, say -- many in the jazz world feel astonished for about four seconds, then quickly act very smug. You know: We've been sitting here patiently, full of our aesthetic virtue, so used to being ignored, and the world has finally ...
Grammy 2008 Big Winners: Winehouse, Kanye West and Herbie Hancock
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) - The 50 year-old Grammy Awards showed their age by giving jazz artist Herbie Hancock the Album of the Year awards. And they showed their spunk with naming troubled singer Amy Winehouse the biggest overall winner of the night with five Grammys including Record and Song of the Year and Best New ...
