Miles Davis Quintet

Box sets as catalog ghetto

"...would shortly dissolve, but Davis, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams forged..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

You Got Me Singing

Another Spotify convert

"...Booty Woman,” Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears “Chameleon,” Herbie Hancock “Time is Tight,” Booker T & the MGs..."

Aug. 10, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Miles Davis

Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary

"...and "Little Blue Frog" from a second session with Herbie Hancock. A previously unreleased DVD of Davis' Second Great..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The Department of Homeland Security tries to take down YellowFever and KAOS Radio. Somewhere Harvey Pekar is laughing.

"...Davis, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock – Pekar's prose possessed a brilliant distinction, authoritative..."

July 16, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Live Shots

The Montreal Jazz Festival skronks Zornumental

"...Hall deconstructionist Sonny Rollins, One World Theatre historical marker Herbie Hancock, and 2010 SXSW keynote speaker and Austin Music..."

July 9, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Aural History

Jeff Lofton, son of an Army drill instructor, sure doesn’t play trumpet like one – or does he?

"...O'Jays and Earth, Wind & Fire albums; Ramsey Lewis, Herbie Hancock, Chuck Mangione even. Then came the "crucial moment":..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Uncle Bruno

"...bands of jazz fusion pioneers like Billy Cobham and Herbie Hancock. Locally that brand of jazz has seen a..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Inaugural events on TV and online

more inauguration info

"...Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Herbie Hancock, John Legend, Usher, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, will.i.am and..."

Jan. 7, 2009 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Miles Davis

"...that celebrates the LP with commentary from, among others, Herbie Hancock and drummer Jimmy Cobb, the only surviving group..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Bomb the Bass

Who says the guitar is sexier than bass? Not Return to Forever's Stanley Clarke, and hopefully not Beyoncé either.

"...SC: There's Chick, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, George Duke, and Hank Jones, Elvin Jones' brother...."

May 23, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Fine Wine With Lenny White

Return to Forever and drummer closet vintner Lenny White

"...the forefront of the new electrified sound, most notably Herbie Hancock with Headhunters, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul in..."

May 23, 2008 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Lionel Loueke

"...clicks and pops of the tongue. Legendary jazz tandem Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, two of Loueke's mentors, makes..."

April 4, 2008 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

Miles Davis

"...(Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, and Mahavishnu Orchestra's John McLaughlin), Herbie Hancock's futuristic piano textures ("Jabali"), and Afro-Cuban percussion from..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Review by Austin Powell

Music DVDs

"...Annie Lennox backed live on MTV by jazz maestros Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter on "Ev'ry Time We Say..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Speak No Evil

"...interesting because he used bassist Ron Carter and pianist Herbie Hancock, his partners in Miles Davis' band, but instead..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

TCB

Parsing the posters at SXSW's Flatstock show. Also gay cowboys, sex tapes, and Oscar-winning pimps: TCB classes it up.

March 10, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Eric Johnson, Adrian Belew

Live shot

"...displaying the fireworks that excited Frank Zappa, Laurie Anderson, Herbie Hancock, etc. Belew erected intricate wrought iron sculptures with..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Music Review by David Lynch

Flowing Over

More with Craig Brewer

"...The second formative moment was when I saw Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" video for the first time. I taped..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Miles Davis

In Box

"...years after this, even with adventurous young musicians like Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams in his band, Davis continued..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Grant Green

Box Set

"...Disc three finds Green playing with outstanding pianists like Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Sonny Clark or with just..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Jazz Sides

Jazz Sides

"...fare in its disregard of commercial niceties, the soprano-blowing Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, and Jack DeJohnette go for broke..."

May 10, 2002 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Drawers

In Drawers, Dawn Davis Loring and the other six members of her Mosaic Dance Body explore our relationship to our underwear with wit and -- á la the lingerie itself -- a certain delicacy, a subtle evocation of rhythm and juxtaposition of bodies in space.

"...several pieces set to the tunes of Sir Mix-a-Lot, Herbie Hancock, Philip Glass, and Marcos Valle, among others. It's..."

April 6, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Reviews

If Scratch isn't the hip-hop doc to end all hip-hop docs, then it's stultifyingly close.

"...the DJ who laid down those funky scratches in Herbie Hancock's seminal "Rockit," and from there, the mental shutters..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Jimmie Vaughan skips Dubya's inaugural ball, while the Austin Music Network gets a reprieve from the city as the SIMS Foundation tries to spend $62,000 and fast.

"...exposed people to jazzy performers like Tony Williams and Herbie Hancock, cover combos like Duck Soup and the Pictures..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now (Reprise)

"...and a jazz band that features Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock on others, there is no sass, no bite,..."

July 28, 2000 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Bobo StensonSerenity (ECM)

"...you dig people like Evans, Jarrett, Chick Corea, and Herbie Hancock, check this set out. It's nearly perfect...."

June 16, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Third World Cop (Palm Pictures)
Monty Alexander Monty Meets Sly and Robbie (Telarc Jazz)
Horace Andy Living In the Flood (Melankolic/Astralwerks)

"...their grooves on soul-jazz chestnuts like Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder," Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon," Bobby Timmon's "Moanin'" and Joe Zawinul's "Mercy,..."

June 2, 2000 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Miles Davis with John Coltrane The Complete Columbia Recordings (Columbia)

Reissues

"...the unnamed genre he created with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock -- is amazing. On this 6-CD, chronologically arranged..."

May 19, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Ahmad Jamal, One World Theatre, March 24

"...can afford acts like McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, and Herbie Hancock without a university endowment. "KUT," explained Stearns during..."

April 7, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Dylan Group, Emo's

Wednesday Night

"...went on nonetheless. The stage setup was reminiscent of Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" video, with robotic man-heads and stringless guitars..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

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