03-04-2025
Jazz icon Herbie Hancock will play Orpheum Theatre
Jazz icon Herbie Hancock is returning to the Twin Cities.
The 84-year-old pianist, composer, and bandleader will alight at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Minneapolis Oct. 22.
Hancock is one of the most influential jazz musicians alive today, with a career that has spanned more than six decades.
He's been a singular voice throughout that career, which includes playing on revered albums like Hank Mobley's The Turnaround! in 1965 and Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil in 1966, releasing records like 1965's Maiden Voyage and 1973's Head Hunters that shook the jazz world, and winning more than a dozen Grammys, including Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 2008 for River: The Joni Letters.
Though, his list of accomplishments is better suited to a book-length list of accolades. (We've already left out his Oscar, his work with the Miles Davis Quintet, his score for Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up...)
Tickets to see the jazz legend go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 4.
