Stereogum — Flying Lotus shared the first track from his new album You’re Dead! on BBC Radio 6 today. It’s called “Moment of Hesitation” and features Herbie Hancock and Thundercat. He also was interviewed by Gilles Peterson and talks about the new album,... more info

Mercury News, California — The Monterey Jazz Festival returns for its 57th year, with Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd and scores of others. SFJazz inaugurates its third season at the SFJazz Center, opening with the Brazilian sounds of Eliane Elias and Caetano Veloso. And the clu... more info

Stereogum — When the visionary Los Angeles beat-mangler Flying Lotus got Thom Yorke and Erykah Badu to show up on his album Until The Quiet Comes a couple of years ago, that felt like a big deal indeed, even if their voices fully blurred into his expansive jazz-... more info

NME — Jazz artist Herbie Hancock will also appear on the release more info

Mercury News, California — Some, like Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins and Wayne Shorter are legends, other like Cassandra Wilson and Jason Moran, are leading the way to new directions. more info

ContactMusic — Oscar-nominated hip-hop star Pharrell Williams named his son Rocket Ayer to honour his favourite musicians, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Herbie Hancock... more info

Mercury News, California — Gary Clark Jr., Charles Lloyd, Robert Glasper and many others headed to Monterey, Sept. 19-21. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — A selection of upcoming jazz and jazz-adjacent shows heading into this weekend.     more info

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Prefix — Jazz piano legend Herbie Hancock has been announced as the 2014 Harvard Professor of Poetry, according to Rolling ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/herbie-hancock-becomes-latest-harvard-professor-of/76246/ more info