Herbie Hancock's 'RockIt' was a U.S. radio dud in the '80s By . Kevin Wuench; Published July 19, 2013. Now everyone who grew up watching MTV remembers Herbie Hancock's video for RockIt.

Herbie Hancock has had the kind of career that's unlikely to ever be ... My father photographed David Hockney and his mother in the ‘80s. It’s an image I haven’t stopped thinking about.

Hancock's first Columbia album was Sextant (1973) with The Mwandishi Band, who got their name from the Swahili names taken by the musicians. They looked to Africa for inspiration, but the record ...

Herbie Hancock went platinum – and stayed prolific. News & Views. ... The jazz-funk fusion eventually gave way to some outright vocal pop with an ear cocked to the dance floor in the ‘80s, ...

Vinyl Me, Please and legendary jazz pianist Herbie Hancock today announce VMP Anthology: The Story of Herbie Hancock—an exclusive vinyl box set celebrating the illustrious career of Herbie Hancock.The ...

Herbie Hancock On World Cafe : ... became one of the first to incorporate hip-hop elements with jazz in the '80s and '90s, and won 12 Grammys and several other awards along the way. ...

Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I. on Saturday, Aug. 3, ... and through the funk era of the 1970s and 80s. Load YouTube video.

Possibilities," is the title of jazz pianist Herbie Hancock's latest disc, a collection of perfs with more than a dozen musicians known for their pop and rock work. To make the album, which the ...

Herbie Hancock's own musical journey began as a boy in ... In the 1970s and '80s, Hancock stretched the bounds of jazz perhaps more than any other musician of his time and reached crossover ...

Herbie Hancock, at his home studio in Los Angeles, ... More recently, Mr. Hancock’s fusion recordings from the 1970s and ’80s have become a touchstone for younger musicians, ...

Towering Jazz Giants Kamasi Washington And Herbie Hancock Lit Up The Hollywood ... he wielded a keytar every bit as deftly as any ’80s New Waver — and possibly a good deal more creatively than ...

Award-winning musician Herbie Hancock will take over next year as the creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic. Hancock told KPCC’s Larry Mantle that he hopes to remove the boundaries ...