Since the famous pianist Herbie Hancock rarely visits our li’l Triangle burg, it’s a bona fide lock that his upcoming Nov. 15 show in Durham will be special. The entourage of the eternally youthful 62 ...

The original and unique "In Between" project by the "Chameleon Trio" brings the listener to surprising and unexpected places. The program is very diverse; it`s filled with humor, anger, sadness, ...

Sporting a Yankees snapback cocked to the side and rhyming over fresh hip-hop beats for one session, then donning a suit and channeling vocal jazz luminaries for the next, Minneapolis-born, New ...

Running a concert venue has never been easy, but it's become even more of a test in the past decade or so. The digital fragmentation of music means that almost everything outside of arena-headlining ...

Jesse Fischerand Sly5thAvepay homage to the jazz pioneers that very much shaped their musicality today by revamping a Herbie Hancock classic. Jesse Fischer and Sly5thAve create a house rendition of ...

I always enjoy working with new forms, new idioms. I take them on as a learning experience, a challenge. [Herbie Hancock has a long history of mixing it up—from jazz to funk, pop, and everything in ...

For more than 20 years, Geri Allen has been an archetype of the new breed of contemporary jazz musician who is equally versed in the most modern, cutting-edge music as well as the most ...

A rounded and slightly trebly tone framed by a halo of overtones, along with other sounds—fuzzy-edged or transparent, elongated or truncated, tender or piercing—trace fragments of melody. They form ...