Herbie Hancock plays Chautauqua Auditorium, and that name alone covers a lot of ground. This is a musician who moved through Miles Davis's band, wrote "Watermelon Man" and "Cantaloupe Island," then pushed into electric funk and fusion with the same restless curiosity. Expect a set that can turn from acoustic jazz to synthesizer-driven grooves without much warning.
Chautauqua's wooden hall has hosted acoustic and jazz performers for decades, and Hancock's catalog gives him room to stretch in either direction, quiet and harmonically rich one moment, funky and electric the next.
