Herbie Hancock Celebrates Miles Davis

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, whom he honors with his Bowl performance this year. He’ll be joined by Terence Blanchard, Ron Carter, Marcus Miller, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and conductor Vince Mendoza to perform music from throughout Davis’s career.