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Herbie Hancock's Imagine Project Announces UK Dates

• 27th Jul 2010

Grammy-winning artist and musical pioneer Herbie Hancock will return to the UK for three very special concerts this November featuring his Imagine Project Band. The dates are November 12th in Manchester at Bridgewater Hall and November 13th and 14th at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

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The tour will see Herbie performing songs from “The Imagine Project” along with landmark tracks from his stellar career. The dates form part of a worldwide tour which will see him perform in Europe, the Far East, Australia and the USA, and include a very special concert celebrating his Seventieth birthday at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, September 1st, featuring many special guests.

Herbie Hancock’s “The Imagine Project”, the new CD, is an unprecedented international recording and video project featuring collaborations between music legend Herbie Hancock and over a dozen superstars from every region of the planet. Utilizing the universal language of music to express its central themes of peace and global responsibility, the musical collaborations combine Hancock’s genre-defying musical vision with the “local” musical identity of cultures from around the world. Hancock is joined on the CD by Anoushka Shankar, Seal, Pink, John Legend, Juanes, Jeff Beck, Konono No l, Lionel Loueke, Ceu, Dave Matthews, Lisa Hannigan, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Chaka Khan, Tinariwen, The Chieftains, Marcus Miller, Wayne Shorter, Oumou Sangare, Los Lobos, India.Arie, James Morrison, Toumani Diabete and more

“The Imagine Project” is the next step in Hancock’s extraordinary ground-breaking career, and builds upon his recent successes and recognition: 2007 Grammy for Album of the Year – “River/The Joni Letters”; Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World; multiple award-winning album – “Possibilities” amongst many others.

“Music truly is the universal language,” says Hancock, “The Imagine Project” will explore that concept across the globe, uniting a myriad of cultures through song and positive creative expression. My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.”

Details of the dates are as follows:

November
12 MANCHESTER, Bridgewater Hall, 0161 907 9000
13 LONDON, Royal Festival Hall (Part of the London Jazz Festival), 0844 875 0073
14 LONDON, Royal Festival Hall (Part of the London Jazz Festival, 0844 875 0073

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