Herbie Hancock plays Strings Music Pavilion in Steamboat Springs, and that's reason enough to clear your schedule. Few living musicians carry a resume like his, from Miles Davis's second great quintet to Head Hunters to decades of restless genre crossing. Expect a set that can move from acoustic jazz lyricism into funk grooves and electric fusion without much warning.
Hancock still plays with the curiosity of someone discovering the instrument for the first time. Whatever direction the night takes, it will be led by one of jazz's most inventive pianists.
