Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter

Few jazz pianists have had as wide an impact on American popular culture as Herbie Hancock. He scored hits with songs such as 'Watermelon Man' and 'Chameleon' in the ’70s, blew up MTV with 'Rockit' in the ’80s, and provided fodder for hip-hop heads to bite into with 'Cantaloupe Island' and 'Maiden Voyage' – and that's not even taking into account his epochal playing with Miles Davis. Tonight he'll be joined onstage by another veteran of Davis's band, Wayne Shorter. The legendary saxist – a linchpin of both Davis's second great quintet and the great fusion band Weather Report – exemplifies better than just about any other jazz elder the art of maturing without stagnating. An enticing line-up, then, matched for grandeur only by the price of the ticket.