Herbie Hancock review – still seeking the new after 50 years of jazz curiosity
Band featuring Terence Blanchard and drummer Jaylen Petinaud is firmly rooted in the present
March 2023
Wayne Shorter, icon of jazz saxophone, dies aged 89
Composer and performer traversed numerous phases of jazz history, and fused his playing with the likes of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and Carlos Santana
July 2022
Gen-Z jazz prodigies Domi and JD Beck: ‘It was insane to see Herbie Hancock solo in front of us’
The duo talk about working with the jazz pioneer on their debut album, Not Tight, collaborating with Anderson .Paak and not making music for ‘psycho jazz musicians who stay up until 8am’
June 2022
Sunday at Glastonbury: Kendrick Lamar, Diana Ross and Jack White – as it happened
Herbie Hancock: ‘Miles Davis told me: I don’t pay you to get applause’
March 2022
Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar to headline Glastonbury 2022
As the festival returns from Covid-enforced hiatus, over half of the acts announced so far feature women
April 2020
Lockdown listening
Gregory Porter's lockdown listening: 'I’m in search of uplift and answers'
With his brother in hospital with coronavirus, the jazz vocalist is taking solace in Herbie Hancock, Donny Hathaway, and disco dancing with his young son
November 2019
Herbie Hancock review – fusion fantasist digs deep to keep it fresh
Even after half a century, the jazz legend’s playing was unpredictable as he switched effortlessly between styles
August 2019
Ranked
Miles Davis's 20 greatest albums – ranked!
With his lost 1985 album Rubberband out in September, and the 50th anniversary of In a Silent Way – released this week – we count down the jazz icon’s finest moments
April 2019
Herbie Hancock: 'I felt like I stood on the shoulders of giants and now it's my turn'
On International Jazz Day, the music legend opens up about his struggles with addiction, the importance of striving and why the secret to jazz is generosity
March 2019
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes review – pristine doc of tonal clarity
Sophie Huber’s film, though sanctioned by the jazz record label, is no hagiography, interviewing key players and adding fantastic rostrum pictures of the era
November 2017
Herbie Hancock: ‘I like to discover new rules so I can break them’
The great jazz pianist on his years in Miles Davis’s legendary quintet, his debt to Buddhism and why he still has the urge to innovate
May 2017
I just failed grade two piano. When are we too old to learn new things?
Hugh Muir
Anyone can learn to play an instrument, I thought – even in middle age. And then I took grade two
March 2016
Barack Obama to host International Jazz Day concert at White House
Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin and Sting among dozens of stars lined up for celebration at the home of the US president
January 2016
Run DMC to be first rap act to win Grammy lifetime achievement award
Herbie Hancock, late R&B singer Ruth Brown and Earth, Wind & Fire also among those due to be honoured at this year’s award ceremony in February
September 2015
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs about obstacles
Rivers to roadblocks, brick walls to tall orders, whether literal, metaphorical, psychological or cultural, raise up songs about barriers for this week’s playlist, says Peter Kimpton
August 2015
Miles Davis: At Newport 1955-1975 review – catches the master at his best
This four-CD box set of previously unreleased recordings capture Davis’s dizzying changing styles
July 2015
The playlist
The playlist: jazz – Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, Neneh Cherry, Dianne Reeves and more
Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock review – quicksilver exchange from jazz royalty
January 2015
Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea to tour together
Jazz greats go out on their first tour as a duo since 1978
