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*Jazz legend Herbie Hancock is currently preparing a jazz-funk/hip-hop hybrid album featuring an eclectic mix of guest artists, including Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, Common, Wayne Shorter and Snoop Dogg.
A release date or title has yet to be announced, but the 77-year-old 14-time Grammy winner told the San Diego Tribune that he’s been in the studio with the featured artists and is picking up fresh ideas.
“I’m learning a lot from the young people I’m working with,” said the famed keyboardist, speaking from his Hollywood Hills home. “Because they built the new structures, social media and that whole arena, and that affects how you get things out in front of the public to let them know you’re working on something.”
Via Billboard:
Though technically a jazz keyboardist, Hancock’s inventive work has been frequently sampled in hip-hop, most notably his electro-funk ’80s staple “Rockit,” which has been re-purposed over seventy times, as SDT points out. And he strongly believes in the power of bridging rap and jazz himself: When Billboard asked in 2016 if he thought that Kendrick’s To Pimp a Butterfly was “a gateway to jazz,” he replied, “Oh, I know it is.”
Saxophonist and keyboardist Terrace Martin is producing the project, which makes sense, as the producer has worked with Kendrick Lamar (on his untitled unmastered and To Pimp a Butterfly albums), as well as with fellow Hancock collaborator Snoop Dogg.
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