Topic - Herbie Hancock

“Even though the roots of jazz come from the African American experience, my feeling has always been that jazz really developed from a noble aspect of the human spirit common to all people, the ability to respond to the worst of circumstances and to create something of great value, or as Buddhism says, to turn poison into medicine,” Hancock said in a book about jazz and Buddhism, co-authored with Shorter and Ikeda.

Daisaku Ikeda, head of global Japanese Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai, dies at 95 →

Herbie Hancock once said of Shorter in Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet: “The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter.

Wayne Shorter, jazz saxophone pioneer, dies at 89 →