Jazz great Herbie Hancock returns to Czech Republic after nine years for Brno show

The great American jazz musician Herbie Hancock received sustained applause from an almost capacity audience at Brno’s Vodova sports hall on Saturday night. The Oscar and multi-Grammy winning keyboardist and composer, who is 74, played songs from across his distinguished career, including his 1962 classic Watermelon Man, in a concert that was part of the city’s JazzFest. Hancock had previously performed twice in Prague, at a jazz festival in the capital in 1986 and at the Prague Spring classical music festival with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2005.

Author: Ian Willoughby