The award-winning jazz great discusses his first-ever solo tour and reflects on the key to a great performance. A modern music icon, Herbie Hancock played with the jazz greats and went on to become an Oscar- and Grammy-winning musician-composer. The Chicago native took up piano at age 7 and, classically trained, was performing Mozart with symphony orchestras by age 11. He’s scored a number of films and is involved in several educational endeavors, including the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Hancock is the L.A. Philharmonic’s creative chair for jazz and UNESCO’s Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Intercultural Dialogue. This fall, he embarks on his first ever solo tour.
Click here to watch a video of Herbie Hancock on the Tavis Smiley Show, broadcast August 29th, 2011, via WNET