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Herbie Hancock

Mar 30, 2024
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Overview

14-time Grammy Award winner, NEA Jazz Master and pioneering keyboardist.

Audience Favorite

Chicago native Herbie Hancock returns to the Orchestra Hall stage for the 14th time. In his 26-year history with the series, he has thrilled audiences with “expansive, free-ranging, densely textured performances” (Chicago Tribune) and a devotion to evolving the genre through “cross-pollination, adventurism and faith in what’s ahead” (The New York Times).

Performers
Herbie Hancock
Terence Blanchard
Trumpet
Devin Daniels
Saxophone
James Genus
Bass
Trevor Lawrence
Drums
Lionel Loueke
Guitar

Extras

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Sponsors

Funding for educational programs during the 2023/24 Season of SCP Jazz has been generously provided by Dan J. Epstein, Judith Guitelman and the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation. The CSOA thanks the Epstein Family Foundation for ten consecutive years of generous, innovative support for the SCP Jazz Education program.

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