Meet kassa overall: virtuoso drummer, rap confessor, backpack jazz producer!

For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

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Before The Future LOST SOUND TAPES/SELF-RELEASED 8/10

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