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Herbie Hancock

Melbourne International Jazz Festival 

Melbourne International Jazz Festival
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29 October 2024
Herbie Hancock (photograph by @Duncographic and courtesy of MIJF)
This year’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) was heavy on Grammy winners and nominees – including Esperanza Spalding, Makoto Ozone, Antonio Sánchez, Brandee Younger, Marcus Miller – a sure sign of the festival’s growing international status and capacity to attract some of the biggest names in jazz. None come bigger than Herbie Hancock, fourteen-time Grammy winner, who returned to MIJF for the first time since 2019, to headline Jazz at the Bowl, alongside bassist Marcus Miller. ... (read more)

Possibilities by Herbie Hancock

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May 2015, no. 371
Des Cowley reviews 'Possibilities' by Herbie Hancock

In the opening pages of his memoir, Herbie Hancock recounts an onstage episode in Stockholm in the mid-1960s, when he was playing with Miles Davis. In a few brief paragraphs, he sums up Davis’s genius as only a musician deeply conversant with his music could. It is this sort of privileged entrée into Hancock’s musical world that makes Possibilities a wor ...