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Special Event
Jazz/Tech Talk: Herbie Hancock
October 14, 2009

Join Loren Schoenberg for a multi-media presentation on Hancock’s innovative music. This is the first in a series of free lecture/demonstrations on electric and electronic jazz, in the recording studio and on stage. He is joined by Keystone keyboardist Adam Benjamin.

Presented in collaboration with the Cantor Arts Center, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and the Stanford Jazz Workshop, with generous support from Abraham and Marian Sofaer.

Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his explorations, he transcends limitations and genres while still maintaining his unique, unmistakable voice. Hancock's success at expanding the possibilities of musical thought has placed him in the annals of this century's visionaries. With an illustrious career spanning five decades, he continues to amaze audiences and never ceases to expand the public's vision of what music, particularly jazz, is all about today. Herbie Hancock's creative path has moved fluidly between almost every development in acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B since 1960. He has attained an enviable balance of commercial and artistic success, arriving at a point in his career where he ventures into every new project motivated purely by the desire to expand the boundaries of his creativity. There are few artists in the music industry who have gained more respect and cast more influence than Herbie Hancock. As the immortal Miles Davis said in his autobiography, "Herbie was the step after Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and I haven't heard anybody yet who has come after him."

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