HERBIE HANCOCK

KALAMAZOO, MI — Pink Martini has become the second major headlining act to cancel its scheduled performance at the 2022 Gilmore International Piano Festival due to COVID-19 this year. Similar to jazz legend Herbie Hancock, who canceled his April 24 festival-opening performance, Pink Martini will no longer perform its headlining show at the Miller Auditorium on Western Michigan’s campus. A news release issued by the festival on Wednesday, May 4, announced the cancelation, stating the decision was made due to COVID-19 complications. The Gilmore Piano Festival, the largest gathering of keyboard artists in North America, has been underway since April 24 and will conclude on May 15. Also on MLive:10 things to experience at the Gilmore Piano FestivalSite of former Fannie May Candies in Portage to host new business6 construction projects in Portage that could impact your commute this summer

KALAMAZOO, MI — Due to a positive COVID case in Herbie Hancock’s touring party, the jazz legend will no longer be performing at the 2022 Gilmore Piano Festival. Hancock had been scheduled to kick off the festival with a performance on Sunday, April 24 at Miller Auditorium, located on Western Michigan University’s campus. That performance has been postponed to Sept. 23, a news release from the festival stated Friday morning. “Hancock wishes everyone a wonderful and safe 2022 Gilmore Piano Festival, and looks forward to performing this fall. The 2022 festival runs through May 15.

KALAMAZOO, MI — A “Roaring 20s Cabaret Show,” Herbie Hancock, a Jazz at Noon lunchtime series, numerous symphonic and solo pianist performances, master classes, film showings and family-friendly fun. After four years away, Kalamazoo’s Gilmore Piano Festival is back. “It’s a big gap for us,” said Mindy MacInnis, director of marketing for the festival. This year’s marquee performances include jazz legend Herbie Hancock, who performs April 24, and Diana Krall, who performs May 14, both at the Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo. The series offers more than a dozen opportunities to catch a jazz show during one’s lunch hour in Battle Creek or Kalamazoo.

Generations of artists paid tribute to the five-decade career of Joni Mitchell, who was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year at a gala two days before the Grammys.

The Washington native is part of an elite group to be feted in a tribute concert this month.

Chaka Khan, Cyndi Lauper and Beck will be among those performing in tribute to Joni Mitchell when she’s honored as the 2022 MusiCares Person of the Year by the Recording Academy.

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This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh music from U2 as part of the soundtrack for the animated “Sing 2,” a marathon of holiday films on TCM and the end-of-the-world comedy “Don’t Look Up.”.

Motown founder Berry Gordy, opera star Justino Díaz, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, entertainer Bette Midler and television impresario Lorne Michaels were among those celebrated this weekend.

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2015, file photo, Director Bertrand Tavernier poses with his Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievements after the award ceremony at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. Acclaimed French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has died at the age of 79, according to French media. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)PARIS – French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, who directed acclaimed movies such “A Sunday in the Country,” “Captain Conan” and “The Judge and the Assassin,” has died, according to his family. Tavernier was married to the late French-Irish screenwriter Claudine O’Hagan, better known as Colo Tavernier, from 1965 to 1980. They had two children together: writer Tiffany Tavernier and director and actor Nils Tavernier.

"I have in my contract that I will only play a Fazioli piano," Hancock said. In 2003, Paolo Fazioli invited Herbie Hancock to come to Italy for a tour. Paolo Fazioli told us he wants to be able to test each one. Years after playing their pianos, Kudo met and married Luca Fazioli. "You feel in love with Fazioli, the piano, before you fell in love with Fazioli, the man," Doane said.

FILE - Jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea poses for a portrait in Clearwater, Fla., on Sept. 4, 2020, to promote his new double album "Plays." Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. (Mike Carlson/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK – Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. He recorded and performed classical music, standards, solo originals, Latin jazz and tributes to great jazz pianists. In addition to his Grammy wins, Corea also had four Latin Grammy wins.

click to enlarge Courtesy of Sacks & Co. The last time Kamasi Washington passed through Detroit was last summer when he teamed up with 79-year-old, 14-time Grammy-winning jazz virtuoso Herbie Hancock, who has more than 40 studio records under his belt and just as many years on Washington.But the 38-year-old Los Angeles native and celebrated saxophonist, who has often been referred to as a torchbearer, can stand wholly on his own. Washington is ushering in a new era of jazz, one in which the confines of tradition are bent, warped, and manipulated into atmospheric, transportive soundscapes. Its been a long two years since Washington released his sophomore LP,, and a follow-up EP, The Choice and even longer since his 2015 debut,, which earned Washington the American Music Prize but thankfully we have his catalog, as well as a hefty playlist of collaborations with the likes of Run the Jewels , Chaka Khan, John Legend, and Kendrick LamarGet our top picks for the best events in Detroit every Thursday morning. Sign up for our events newsletter.

click to enlarge AG RojasKamasi Washington. Cut from the same cloth 40 years apart, Herbie Hancock and Kamasi Washington are a match made in jazz heaven. The 79-year-old 14-time Grammy Award-winning jazz virtuoso and NEA Jazz Master Hancock (who has 40 studio records under his belt, mind you) will join Washington a rising jazz star, tenor sax player, American Music Prize-winner, and disciple of Hancocks genre-bending artistry. Washington who released his sophomore LP, Heaven and Earth, and a follow-up EP, The Choice, last year has most notably collaborated with Run the Jewels, Chaka Khan, and Kendrick Lamar. Despite the age and experience difference, both Hancock and Washington represent the new phase of jazz, which has everything to do with sonic audacity, flexibility, and their willingness to shake up the confines of traditions.