Jazz icon Herbie Hancock talks music, innovation and more before his May 9 concert at Sarasota’s Van Wezel.

Herbie Hancock: If you want to learn jazz you got to learn it out in the street. There weren't any jazz lessons of the day. But I wasn't into jazz then. I was only into rhythm and blues and classical ...

From his 1962 solo debut album, aptly titled "Takin' Off," to six decades later, jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock's career has been defined by looking and moving forward. After playing in trumpeter ...