Herbie Hancock On Miles Davis + Almost Playing with Jimi Hendrix

Herbie Hancock speaks to OKP TV on the eve of his new tour with Chick Corea, recalling some past collaborations, including that time he almost got to work with Jimi Hendrix(!) Not to mention that time he discovered Miles Davis was eavesdropping on his audition sessions.

Videographers: Lance Steagall + Jake Remington
Editor: Jake Remington
Producer: Ginny Suss

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[michaelbaa]

The biggest irony of Herbie not liking Jimi's Blues-based music is that, thanks in no small part to James Marshall Hendrix's enormous impact on all great Black Music genres, including and especially Funk..
Parliament-Funkadelic...
Earth, Wind & Fire...
The Isley Brothers...
Kool & the Gang...
The Meters...
Sly and the Family Stone...
The Ohio Players...
The Brothers Johnson..
Rick James...
Prince...
Herbie earned most of his 70's/80's fortune playing exactly that music..
Thank-you Jimi.. yet again..!!

[beachcomber]

So cool to hear Herbie say Hendrix was a genius.

[shephrd]

I love hearing these stories about Miles Davis.

[jimmcnerney]

Jimi Hendrix playing impacts me in a way that no other musician ever has ... not even close!

[zinedinezidane]

if these two made an album together... oh man the rest of the music world would've been done

[ericgendell]

Love to Miles, Herbi and Jimi. 3 of the greatest virtuosos who ever lived. Had they played together, would have been a mindblowing musical collaboration.

[conalrose]

"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art"--- Charlie Parker.

[UnderCoverBeWater]

Herbie was closed minded and Miles helped him a lot. Herbie told the story how he was a snob when it came to the Rhodes piano, but Miles made him play it. Thank Miles for that!

[huntermcleod]

the solo jimi plays around 6 or 7 minutes in that performance is insane, I highly recommend listening to it

[henryhill]

Legend in the flesh. I've just been listening to Maiden Voyage for the first time, can't believe this record is 50 years old...

[elmorevandodewaard]

Thank you mr Hancock. What a beautiful and historical story. ❤

[bandito]

Thanks OKAYPLAYER(PLAYA). This made my night.

[cmkilcullen]

I believe Miles attended Jimi's funeral.. I can only imagine.. geeze..

[TheDilligan]

Herbie Hancock is one of the most wholesome people.

[TheGenreman]

The nearest you get to hearing what a Miles Hendrix session what have been like is the band Miles had with Pete Cosey & Reggie Lucas.

[charlesdrake]

I'll always respect Miles for having such open ears. Once Herbie opened his we wound up with Headhunters and other classics.
I've really grown to dislike elitist snobs like Stanley Crouch and Wynton Marsalis. From what I recall from Mile's biography he blasts them both lol.

[merlin]

Damn that would’ve been game over for the music world if that collaboration took place

[ulyssesgarner]

It take a man of supreme confidence with a deep belief of living one’s life in the rays of self-revelatory honesty to admit in public the comments he made regarding his feelings about Jimi in 1970.

[marchristiansen]

Miles and Herbie heard Jimi play at the Island Of Wright festival

[LydianLunch]

Alan Douglas, the producer who worked on the Hendrix albums that came out just after Hendrix died, Cry Of Love, Midnight Lightning, etc, has a whole other story about why Hendrix and Miles never played together. You can Google it for the details. Not sure if Douglas’ story is true, but he put it in his book.