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Herbie Hancock | Photo: Douglas Kirkland

Genuine living jazz legend Herbie Hancock makes one of his too-rare appearances in
town, after some intriguing outside the box shows at the Lobero (in duet with the
late, great Wayne Shorter and in an unfortunately unrecorded “lost band,” with saxist
Gary Thomas and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington). This time, he heads to the
Arlington on Wednesday, April 17, with a new-ish band, featuring one of our greatest
tenor saxists, Chris Potter, in the ranks, and trusty Hancock ally trumpeter/composer
Terence Blanchard. Hancock, now 83, has been a road-hugging workhorse in recent
years, showing up at many global festivals (I caught him at both the Umbria festival
in Italy and as headliner at the Monterey Jazz Festival last fall), and seems ever-
ready to both go deep and leave the audience in a grin-some and grooving mode.
Count this one as a not-to-miss.