Lang Lang's so-called "liberal" approach is partly reflected in his enthusiastic collaboration with American jazz legend Herbie Hancock.
Nascimento first met Herbie Hancock when Hancock was in Brazil on his honeymoon.
Benjamin plays the lead melody on Vocoder, which gives the song a distinct aura of '70s-era Herbie Hancock.
Currently, the young prodigy is collaborating with American jazz legend, Herbie Hancock, with whom he performed at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
Performing musicians have been very enthusiastic about possible applications of the technology, including, Miller tells me, jazz innovator Herbie Hancock.
The musician was identified as Victor Conte, a bassist who toured with Herbie Hancock and the seventies funk band Tower of Power.
Herbie Hancock's 1973 classic Head Hunters, the first platinum-selling jazz record, is now considered one of the defining moments in jazz fusion.
Herbie Hancock is among the other stars playing in the opening weekend, with Paul Simon, Domino and Lionel Richie performing next weekend.
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Their 1961 recording Free Form also featured a then 20-year-old Herbie Hancock.
During a break, the substitute pianist, a young African-American jazz musician named Herbie Hancock, was doodling with a tune he'd just written.
Influential US jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, who performed alongside the likes of Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock, has died aged 80.
Jazz critics praised his adventurous approach and fresh style, while noting the influences of pianists such as McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett.
On Sunday, he shared host duties with pianist Herbie Hancock, the institute's chairman, and others including Tipper Gore (who plays drums) and Helen Mirren.
It's hard to imagine that Midlake's earliest music, back in 1999, sounded more like Herbie Hancock, and that the band's first love was jazz.
The result is a collection of 13 songs that range from bluesy rock to Cajun country to an 11-minute jazz-influenced Spanish suite, with Herbie Hancock on the piano.
"I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, " he told The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.
It has propelled Lang Lang to the very top of his profession, touring at a frenetic pace and collaborating with his musical hero, Herbie Hancock, in a jazz-meets-classical concert series.
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock saw one future of music when he was blown away by the piano skills of 14-year-old Jennifer Lin , awed by a classical maestro with full-bore improvisational chops.
The opening ceremony of the 40th anniversary celebrations will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 30 January 2012 with the participation of legendary jazz musician and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock.
It's not an unfair charge: See Steely Dan's 2001 Album of the Year victory over Beck, Eminem and Radiohead (plus Paul Simon), or Herbie Hancock's win over Kanye West and Amy Winehouse in 2008.
That evening UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock will headline a concert with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Marcus Miller, Hugh Masekela, Lionel Loueke, Tania Maria, Barbara Hendricks, Gerald Clayton, Terri Lyne Carrington, China Moses, Ben Williams, Antonio Hart and others.
Musically, his career blazed a long and brilliant trail from bebop with Charlie Parker to epoch-making cool jazz, orchestral suites with arranger Gil Evans and landmark quintets which launched such young stars as John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.
The relationships of the trumpeter to the rhythm section, and of the solo to the underlying harmonies that support it, is highly influenced by "Kind of Blue, " specifically Davis's interplay with pianist Bill Evans and his subsequent experiments with his mid-1960s group, in which he continued along the same path with Herbie Hancock.
Take 25-year-old Alejandro Rosso, with his training in classical and jazz music and his love of timeless musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock, throw in 22-year-old Jonas, who played in punk bands and was influenced by Nirvana, and you wind up with a mix of multilingual rap, swanky lounge-lizard tempos, frisky hip-hop and playful, inane lyrics.
That same evening, another concert will be held at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, hosted by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and featuring Richard Bona, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Danilo Perez, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Heath, Zakir Hussain, Angelique Kidjo, Lang Lang, Romero Lubambo, Shankar Mahadevan, Wynton Marsalis, Hugh Masekela, Christian McBride, Dianne Reeves, Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding, Hiromi and others.
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