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Music legend Herbie Hancock, 84, to tour Australia

Genre-defying musician Herbie Hancock is embarking on an Australian tour and will headline the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

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The 5 synths that gave us synth-pop

These are the machines that rocked the 1970s and popped the 1980s…

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15 of the greatest synth icons ever: Carlos, Hancock, Jarre and more

Legends one and all, we pick the synthesizer's greatest exponents. In order of true greatness…

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“I just wanted to be able to play the guitar, never mind have one that is a signature model”: Fender and Susan Tedeschi team up for a signature Telecaster based on her 1993 American Standard

Finished in Aged Caribbean Mist with a tortoiseshell pickguard, this is the spitting image of Tedeschi's original – minus the signatures of BB King, Herbie Hancock et al...

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The Owner of This Shelby Cobra Used It to Learn How to Drive Stick

Jazz icon Herbie Hancock bought this Cobra with his first real paycheck. He still owns it today.

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Henry Mancini tribute album features Quincy Jones conducting John Williams and Herbie Hancock on the Peter Gunn theme, and Lizzo trading flute licks with James Galway on the Pink Panther

Both recordings are set to appear on a tribute album celebrating Mancini’s 100th birthday

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Music show: Anoushka Shankar, the superstar sitarist

In this edition of arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim meets nine-time Grammy-nominated musician Anoushka Shankar. She's a masterful sitarist and film composer as well as an impassioned activist, and has worked with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Patti Smith and even the Dalai Lama. Her love of composing beautiful blends of…

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“I'm a completely different bass player now… When I was in Jeff Beck's band, I hadn't even been playing for four years!” Tal Wilkenfeld on her evolution from bass phenomenon to solo artist

The bass player for Prince, Ryan Adams and Jeff Beck on going it alone as a singer-songwriter

Guitar World

“I’m old enough to know that the Top 40 is a fickle mistress. I have no desire to get caught on that treadmill”: Bruce Hornsby on The Way It Is, having a hit with Don Henley and being “the Sid Vicious of the accordion world”

As he releases a new album with experimental chamber ensemble, yMusic, the singer-songwriter and pianist looks back on his storied career

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“If I had tried to be another Ron Carter I would have failed. I don’t think that’s what Miles was looking for”: Dave Holland on the making of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew

Few jazz bassists can match the pedigree of Dave Holland, thanks to his work with Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Chick Corea and just about everyone else

Guitar World

Biggest Grammy upsets through the years: From Beyoncé's snub to Lionel Richie's shock win

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles on Sunday

Evening Standard

The classic clip of Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Howard Jones and Thomas Dolby playing the 1985 Grammy Awards is not just the most '80s thing ever, but - thanks to John Denver - a lesson in synth history

And as bonkers as the performance was, HoJo believes that "it really did mark a sort of turning point for electronic music"

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"It was the machine that made electronic music accessible": The 5 vintage synths that gave us synth-pop

These are the machines that rocked the 1970s and popped the 1980s.

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"Chris Squire was amazing, I was lucky enough to know him through the bass player world." Tal Wilkenfeld's world of music

The bassist has played with and dazzled rock and prog greats from The Who to Chick Corea, and her solo work is just as impressive as her musical CV.

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“I really liked the concept, but it was a bit impractical. My bass playing tends to rely more on my hands than any kind of trick”: Listen to Paul Jackson’s double-stop funk on Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man

Paul Jackson’s big-bottomed stank came courtesy of his modified Fender Telecaster Bass, Geraldine

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Cherry Audio has revived the ARP Pro Soloist, a classic '70s synth used by Tony Banks, Herbie Hancock and more

You can buy it on its own or as part of the new Synth Stack 4, which offers 'everything Cherry Audio' in one collection

The Independent UK

Daisaku Ikeda, head of global Japanese Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai, dies at 95

Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, that includes Herbie Hancock and other celebrities in its fold, has died

WEKU

Pianist Jahari Stampley just won a prestigious jazz competition — he's only 24

A 24-year-old piano prodigy, Jahari Stampley, has won one of the most prestigious awards in jazz. The competition held by the Herbie Hancock Institute is widely seen as anointing new stars.

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“He likes first takes is what I learned from Stevie Wonder”: Watch session legend Dean Parks talk Innervisions, Steely Dan and Larry Carlton’s “magic” ES-335

The definition of guitar greatness is tracking live with Stevie Wonder and being asked mid-take to play a guitar solo on a fat-necked acoustic

The Guardian - UK

Herbie Hancock review – still seeking the new after 50 years of jazz curiosity

Band featuring Terence Blanchard and drummer Jaylen Petinaud is firmly rooted in the present

Louder

Watch Journey and Herbie Hancock elevate Junior Walker's Road Runner into the funkosphere

Journey get their funk on with Herbie Hancock as The Midnight Special continues to mine its rich seam of classic rock gold

Guitar World

Nate Watts picks his top 5 Stevie Wonder basslines

Stevie’s long-serving bassist names his 5 favorite bass grooves, and the James Jamerson line that helped get him the gig

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King Of FM is a free Mac and iOS synth that gives you classic DX7 sounds that have been used by Herbie Hancock and producers for Drake, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar

Does it deserve to wear the Yamaha-inspired crown?

WEKU

Watch Joni Mitchell perform 'Summertime' at Gershwin Prize concert

James Taylor, Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox and Angélique Kidjo are among the artists performing on Joni Mitchell: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, airing on PBS this evening.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a rockstar album’: the UK jazz musicians marking five decades of Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew

In an epic feat of improvisation, 12 players over three days reimagined the jazz great’s magnum opus

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