UNESCO AND HERBIE HANCOCK ANNOUNCE THE FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY ON APRIL 30 FEATURING ALL-STAR CONCERTS IN PARIS, NEW ORLEANS AND NEW YORK UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and UNESCO ...

Jahari Stampley keeps coming back to one word to describe the past couple months: “crazy.” As in, it’s crazy that the 24-year-old born and raised in Austin made it into the prestigious Herbie Hancock ...

Ambassador Herbie Hancock believes what the world needs is a little jazz diplomacy. The renowned jazz pianist's first major initiative since being named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador last July is to ...

Legendary jazz pianist Herbie Hancock will lead a U.S. contingent of fellow jazz stars — including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling, Marcus Miller and Shemekia Copeland — heading to Tangier, Morocco, ...

*San Diego – The 6 th Annual Jazz Educators Network Conference was scheduled from January 7-10, 2015. This annual showcase of all things jazz was held at the beautiful Manchester Grand Hyatt, in sunny ...

The beauty of jazz is that everyone is stepping into the unknown, but what was made clear from the International Jazz Festival in Abu Dhabi was that this was a show of unity. Celebrated jazz musician ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Jazz class was in session for students at Topeka High as the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz tours Kansas public schools. The institute’s National Peer-to-Peer Jazz Quintet ...

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SUZANNE, THANK YOU. NEW AT FOUR STUDENTS AT ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL GOT A BREAK FROM A FEW OF THEIR REGULAR CLASSES TODAY TO LEARN ABOUT JAZZ MUSICIANS FROM ALL OVER ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello The 1973 album proved that ...