Literary
Unbound: Herbie Hancock with Sasha Frere-Jones
- 6:30PM
In conversation with Sasha Frere-Jones
Presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore
The hugely influential, 14-time Grammy-winning jazz legend comes to BAM for the launch of his expansive new memoir, Possibilities, which offers a rare window into his extraordinary five-decade career as a pianist and composer.
This event includes a conversation with Hancock and New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie Hancock was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He went on to an illustrious career spanning five decades and 14 Grammy® Awards, including Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters. Hancock’s other awards include a Kennedy Center Honor, and a recent Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco Jazz festival.
One of the all-time great jazz films, featuring thrilling musical appearances by Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, and Wayne Shorter, about an alcoholic saxophone player (Dexter Gordon) living in 1950s Paris.