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feature: legendary pianist and composer herbie hancock is writing music with flying lotus and thundercat

October 22, 2015

The legendary Herbie Hancock is collaborating with Flying Lotus and Thundercat for a new project – possibly for his next album. He told Billboard, “I feel I have something that I might be able to kind of bring along and add a little bit to the sauce with a lot of these young voices.” The pianist and composer – who is no stranger to the two musicians (Hancock features on Flying Lotus’ ‘You’re Dead!’ album, and Thundercat is Hancock’s regular bassist) – also states: “There’s a scene that’s happening, kind of an underground movement that’s given partially to a connection to jazz or a new form of jazz […] It’s very difficult to define because what’s involved is very often hip-hop and rap and electronics and jazz elements, classical elements. It’s pretty broad-based, very open. It touches on the experimental while at the same time touches on the street. So I’m very intrigued. I feel I have something that I might be able to kind of bring along and add a little bit to the sauce with a lot of these young voices, so let’s see what we come up with.” CLICK HERE to read more on this story, and listen to come classic Herbie Hancock below.

By Alexander Aplerku, AFROPUNK Contributor

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