Los Angeles — The jazz rhythms of Mega Nova stampeded out from the Hollywood Bowl band shell on the pleasantly cool evening of Wednesday, Aug. 24. Carlos Santana’s latest project is a super group of jazz masters, including ICAP co-presidents Herbie Hancock (on various keyboards) and Wayne Shorter (on soprano sax), Marcus Miller on bass,…
HIROSHIMA, Japan — Barack Obama, the first sitting U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, called for a “world without nuclear weapons” and offered respects to the victims of the world’s first deployed atomic bomb on May 27. In the Hiroshima Peace Park guest book, Mr. Obama wrote: “We have known the agony of war. Let us now…
Herbie Hancock, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and co-president of the International Committee of Artists for Peace, was a key speaker at the 70-year Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Remembrance Concert at Youngstorget Square in Oslo, on August 6. August 6 and 9 marked the 70th anniversaries, respectively, of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There…