Aussie label AIM's motives might need to be called into question with the release of the new Herbie Hancock set Jazz to Funk. It features the reissues of two obscure sessions from the '60s, both of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TheGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Head Hunters” album signaled a funky turn in so-called jazz music and stood out from the ...

Once a Headhunter, always a headhunter. Jazz keyboardist and composer Herbie Hancock is still recruiting young collaborators, and at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Sunday night, he was fully ...

First, a bit of history. Prior to Head Hunters, Hancock spent the `60s enjoying an enviable career recording as a leader for Blue Note Records, recording and touring as the pianist on Miles Davis’ ...

In 1973, Herbie Hancock found himself at a crossroads. For a couple years, the keyboardist had been leading a band called Mwandishi — named after a Swahili word meaning “writer” — that played ...

TheGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Head Hunters” album signaled a funky turn in so-called jazz music and stood out from the big name fusion bands of the time. In 1969, Miles Davis released his ...