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Unbound: Herbie Hancock with Sasha Frere-Jones

 
Book Release
 
Wed, Oct 29, 2014
  • 6:30PM
 
 
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RUN TIME: 1hr 30min
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Part of Unbound

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.

 
 
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Herbie Hancock 
 

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.

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Round Midnight
Wed, Oct 29, 2014
 
Round Midnight
Wed, Oct 29, 2014
 

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.

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