Hancock honored at jazz benefit concert at Apollo
Source: AP-Excite
By CHARLES J. GANS
NEW YORK (AP) — Herbie Hancock enjoyed "A Great Night in Harlem" with a look to the past and the future as the legendary jazz pianist received a lifetime achievement award from the Jazz Foundation of America at a benefit concert at the historic Apollo Theater.
Actor Bruce Willis, introducing Hancock at Friday night's concert, offered a glance at "the future of jazz" as he brought out 11-year-old Indonesian piano prodigy Joey Alexander to play a solo rendition of Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight."
"When I was eight years old you heard me playing. You told me that you believed in me and that was the day I decided to dedicate my childhood to jazz," Alexander told Hancock who was standing alongside him.
After Alexander got a standing ovation, Hancock enthused, "Wasn't it amazing. ... He's taken my job away from me." Alexander will be releasing his debut recording for the Harlem-based indie Motema label next year.
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Vernice White, Chaka Khan, and Ray Parker Jr. perform at the 13th annual "A Great Night in Harlem" gala concert, presented by The Jazz Foundation of America to benefit The Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund, at The Apollo Theater on Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, in New York. This year's Lifetime Achievement Award honoree is musician Herbie Hancock. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP)
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Wonderful! 
Wonder if the night's events will be downloadable soon.
I added to my jazz playlist on Spotify. 
Love the song though.
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There's one right across the Hudson River in New Jersey:
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and what an honor for someone who has persisted over the past 50+ years! He is truly a classic. 
I just discovered this wild video apparently released by him with his song "Rockit" (a very popular song that I remember came out around the time I had graduated college). The song offered a bridge for him to dabble into the rap/scratching/technofunk genre (I refuse to call any of it "hip hop" because no one around here called it that back then). We didn't have cable here in Philly back then and even if we did, music video outlets like MTV played little or no black music. We did have NBC's "Friday Night Videos" (which came on at 11:30 at night), but i am seeing this wild video for the first time. 
Congrats to Herbie and hope you continue to produce great music for many more years! Well past time to update my digital music collection.
