Discovered by trumpeter Donald Byrd at the start of the 60s, Hancock signed to Blue Note Records, and wrote jazz standards ...

Herbie Hancock's August 14 performance of "Head ... of a Zairean hindewho flute as he led his collaborators into "Watermelon Man," Hancock's languid reinvention of the track he first composed ...

So it’s getting near showtime, and Herbie Hancock heads over to Miles Davis ... hit when Mongo Santamaria covered his tune “Watermelon Man.” But Miles made them all stars, until, one ...

At 84, Herbie Hancock hasn't given up tickling the ivories, and is set to perform a trio of dates at the Barbican in July. The Chicago-born pianist and composer performs a three-night residency as ...

I have imagined myself taking a winter’s farm life in O.E. Rølvaag’s “Giants in the Earth: I have been everywhere and anywhere to hear my own “Watermelon Man” To hear the sounds that ...