This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny ...

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The other main ingredient is harmony, for which there’s no other choice but to begin at the piano, where chords and melodies ... In his memoir Possibilities, Herbie Hancock rationalizes what ...

“Columns has strong, slow moving, incredibly beautiful chords with a wonderful melody ... quintet led by Wayne in late sixties with Herbie Hancock. “He was an incredibly influential seminal ...

“Modal jazz,” which means working with a scale or sequence of scales as opposed to conventional cycles of chords ... In his memoir Possibilities, Herbie Hancock rationalizes what some called ...

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Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, John Legend, Sheryl Crow, Coldplay singer Chris Martin and Lainey Wilson had the lists of artists who have been added to the performance lineup for Sunday’s Grammy ...