Herbie Hancock, The Imagine Project, and Seven Decades: The Birthday Celebration at Carnegie Hall | Cultural Conversation by Larry Blumenfeld - WSJ.com

Herbie Hancock, The Imagine Project, and Seven Decades: The Birthday Celebration at Carnegie Hall | Cultural Conversation by Larry Blumenfeld - WSJ.com

Herbie Hancock gets inside a musician's head in the most challenging way. It's not simply the harmonic terrain he blazed as a pianist nearly a half-century ago—transforming the sound of modern jazz—and which he, even today, routinely opens for fellow players as if simply turning a steering wheel, rounding a bend and letting the vista speak for itself. Nor is it just the loose grace with which he slides from rhythm to rhythm or style to style. It's more basic stuff. More...