All-star quintet features Chris Potter and Devin Daniels, saxophones; James Genus, bass; and Trevor Lawrence, drums
SUMMARY
- UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Herbie Hancock
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- Wed, April 17 | 8 p.m. | ArlingtonTheatre (note new venue)
- Experience an evening under the spell of legendary jazz keyboard player Herbie Hancock
- A multiple Grammy winner and Kennedy Center honoree, Hancock is the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Creative Chair for Jazz
- $125 Gold Circle (preferred seating) / $90 / $65 / $45 / $19 UCSB students (Current student ID required) (An Arlington facility fee will be added to each ticket price)
- Tickets & Info: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
“Hancock shows that it is possible to play the same songs for over 40 years and still find meaning within the notes, stretching and bending them into new shapes.” The Guardian(U.K.)
SANTA BARBARA — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Herbie Hancock on Wednesday, April 17 at 8 p.m. at the Arlington Theatre. Experience a night under the spell of Herbie Hancock, jazz’s most versatile and influential keyboard player. As pianist for Miles Davis in the mid-1960s, Hancock helped pioneer a groundbreaking new sound in jazz. A trained engineer, he was among the first bop players to explore the potential of electric instruments and combine jazz with funk and rock. Hancock has garnered a Kennedy Center Honor, an Academy Award for his Round Midnight film score and 14 Grammys, including a prestigious Album of the Year for his 2007 tribute River: The Joni Letters.
Herbie Hancock – Piano / Keyboards
Devin Daniels – Saxophone
James Genus – Bass
Trevor Lawrence, Jr. – Drums
Chris Potter – Saxophone
ABOUT HERBIE HANCOCK
Now in the seventh decade of his professional life, Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: at the forefront of world culture, technology, business and music. Hancock has been an integral part of every popular music movement since the 1960’s. As a member of the Miles Davis Quintet that pioneered a groundbreaking sound in jazz, he also developed new approaches on his own recordings, followed by his work in the 70s — with record-breaking albums such as Headhunters — that combined electric jazz with funk and rock in an innovative style that continues to influence contemporary music. Rockit and Future Shock marked Hancock’s foray into electronic dance sounds; during the same period he also continued to work in an acoustic setting with V.S.O.P. Hancock received an Academy Award for his Round Midnight film score and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year for River: The Joni Letters, and two 2011 Grammy Awards for the globally collaborative CD, The Imagine Project. Hancock serves as Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and as Institute Chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. In 2011 Hancock was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and in December of 2013, received a Kennedy Center Honor. His memoir, Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, was published by Viking in 2014, and in February 2016 he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Hancock is currently in the studio at work on a new album.
ABOUT UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A&L annually presents more than a hundred public events, from critically acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
Herbie Hancock is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures.
Event Sponsors: Russell Steiner and Susan & Bruce Worster
Jazz Series Lead Sponsor: Manitou Fund
Tickets are $125 Gold Circle (preferred seating) / $90 / $65 / $45 / $19 UCSB students (Current student ID required) (An Arlington facility fee will be added to each ticket price).
For tickets or more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 or purchase online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
Tickets are also available through the Arlington Theatre box office at (805) 963-4408 and AXS.
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2023-2024 season.