Results for "Herbie Hancock"

Herbie's Take on Joni Mitchell, and the Value of Gigging

by Fradley Garner
May 14, 2008

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
March 6, 2008

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 ...

Herbie Hancock Lights up the Chart!!!! | News

February 21, 2008

A Victory for Jazz, or Just Grammy Being Grammy?

February 12, 2008

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

February 11, 2008

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 ...

The Essential Herbie Hancock

By Herbie Hancock

Label: Sine Qua Non
Released: 2007

The Finest In Jazz

By Herbie Hancock

Label: Sine Qua Non
Released: 2007

River: The Joni Letters

By Herbie Hancock

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2007
Track listing: Court and Spark; Edith and the Kingpin; Both Sides Now; River; Sweet Bird; Tea Leaf Propechy; Solitude; Amelia; Nefertiti; The Jungle Line.

Jazz to Funk

By Herbie Hancock

Label: AIM International
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: Maulana; Baraka/Kamli; Kawanda, Dunia. CD2: Witch Fire; Jammin

Herbie Hancock Suprised by Album of the Year Grammy Nomination

December 7, 2007

By Gail Mitchell, L.A. Many artists interviewed after this morning's 2008 Grammy Awards announcement in Hollywood noted a diversity among the list of nominees. A clear example of this may have been the album of the year nomination for jazz veteran Herbie Hancock's River: “The Joni Letter. Probably the most surprised was Hancock himself. “Album of ...