In 1969, Miles Davis released his album, “In a Silent Way.” While he had already slowly started incorporating electric instrumentation into his work a couple of years before, “In a Silent Way” set the ...

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 ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello The 1973 album proved that ...

Herbie Hancock likes to surprise us. Remember when the post-bop stalwart went funk/soul/jazz on "Head Hunters" in 1973? Remember when he went hip-hop/jazz with the 1983 dance-club instrumental smash ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - It’s been 61 years and more than 40 studio albums since Herbie Hancock’s aptly titled debut “Takin’ Off” was released on Blue Note Records. In those decades, Hancock has proven to be ...

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 ...