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Herbie Hancock giveaway!

Don’t miss this ICON of modern music, it’s HERBIE HANCOCK, taking the stage of the Kettlehouse Amphitheater Monday September 20th! Even if you think you have never heard of Herbie Hancock, you’ve heard his music. Herbie Hancock has paved the way for others with his work with vocoders, his influence on modern electronic music, jazz, funk, soul, it’s all been touched by Herbie Hancock. Jack FM 105.9 Missoula is excited to welcome Herbie Hancock to Montana and will be giving away 5 pairs of tickets to some lucky listeners, enter to WIN tickets HERE Jack will draw 5 winners at random and will notify them Friday 9.17! Good LUCK!

You can catch this modern Mozart live here in Montana, at the Kettlehouse Amphitheater, Monday September 20th. Learn more and purchase tickets HERE 

 

Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his explorations, he has transcended limitations and genres while maintaining his unmistakable voice. With an illustrious career spanning five decades and 14 Grammy® Awards, including Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters, he continues to amaze audiences across the globe.

There are few artists in the music industry who have had more influence on acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B than Herbie Hancock. As the immortal Miles Davis said in his autobiography, “Herbie was the step after Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and I haven’t heard anybody yet who has come after him.”

Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. He also developed a passion for electronics and science, and double-majored in music and electrical engineering at Grinnell College.

In 1960, Herbie was discovered by trumpeter Donald Byrd. After two years of session work with Byrd as well as Phil Woods and Oliver Nelson, he signed with Blue Note as a solo artist. His 1963 debut album, ‘Takin’ Off’, was an immediate success, producing the hit “Watermelon Man.”

In 1963, Miles Davis invited Herbie to join the Miles Davis Quintet. During his five years with Davis, Herbie and his colleagues Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums) recorded many classics, including ‘ESP’, ‘Nefertiti’ and ‘Sorcerer’. Later on, Herbie appeared on Davis’ groundbreaking ‘In a Silent Way.’

Herbie’s own solo career blossomed on Blue Note, with classic albums including ‘Maiden Voyage’, ‘Empyrean Isles’, and ‘Speak Like a Child’. He composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film ‘Blow Up’, which led to a successful career in feature film and television music.

After leaving Davis, Herbie put together a new band called The Headhunters and, in 1973, recorded ‘Head Hunters.’ With its crossover hit single “Chameleon,” it became the first jazz album to go platinum. By mid-decade, Herbie was playing for stadium-sized crowds all over the world and had no fewer than four albums in the pop charts at once. In total, Herbie had 11 albums in the pop charts during the 1970s. His ’70s output inspired and provided samples for generations of hip-hop and dance music artists. Herbie also stayed close to his love of acoustic jazz in the ’70s, recording and performing with VSOP (reuniting him with his Miles Davis colleagues), and in duet settings with Chick Corea and Oscar Peterson.

In 1980, Herbie introduced the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to the world as a solo artist, producing his debut album and touring with him as well. In 1983, a new pull to the alternative side led Herbie to a series of collaborations with Bill Laswell. The first, ‘Future Shock’, again struck platinum, and the single “Rockit” rocked the dance and R&B charts, winning a Grammy for Best R&B Instrumental. The video of the track won five MTV awards. ‘Sound System’, the follow-up, also received a Grammy in the R&B instrumental category.

Herbie won an Oscar in 1986 for scoring the film “‘Round Midnight”, in which he also appeared as an actor. Numerous television appearances over the years led to two hosting assignments in the 1980s: “Rock School” on PBS and Showtime’s “Coast To Coast”.

After an adventurous 1994 project for Mercury Records, ‘Dis Is Da Drum’, he moved to the Verve label, forming an all-star band to record 1996’s Grammy-winning ‘The New Standard’. In 1997, an album of duets with Wayne Shorter, ‘1+1’, was released.

The legendary Headhunters reunited in 1998, recording an album for Herbie’s own Verve-distributed imprint, and touring with the Dave Matthews Band. That year also marked the recording and release of ‘Gershwin’s World’, which included collaborators Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Kathleen Battle, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea. ‘Gershwin’s World’ won three Grammys in 1999, including Best Traditional Jazz Album and Best R&B Vocal Performance for Stevie Wonder’s “St. Louis Blues.”

Herbie reunited with Bill Laswell to collaborate with some young hip-hop and techno artists on 2001’s FUTURE2FUTURE. He also joined with Roy Hargrove and Michael Brecker in 2002 to record a live concert album, ‘Directions In Music: Live at Massey Hall’, a tribute to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

‘Possibilities’, released in August 2005, teamed Herbie with many popular artists, such as Sting, Annie Lennox, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, Joss Stone and Damien Rice. That year, he played a number of concert dates with a re-staffed Headhunters, and became the first-ever Artist-In-Residence at the Tennessee-based festival Bonnaroo.

In 2007, Hancock recorded and released ‘River: The Joni Letters’, a tribute to longtime friend and collaborator Joni Mitchell featuring Wayne Shorter, guitarist Lionel Loueke, bassist Dave Holland and drummer

Vinnie Colaiuta and co-produced by Larry Klein. He enlisted vocalists Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza, Leonard Cohen and Mitchell herself to perform songs she wrote or was inspired by. The album received glowing reviews and was a year-end Top 10 choice for many critics. It also garnered three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; Herbie is one of only a handful of jazz musicians ever to receive that honor.

In 2010 Hancock released the critically-acclaimed CD, ‘Herbie Hancock’s The Imagine Project,’ winner of two 20ll Grammy Awards for Best Pop Collaboration and Best Improvised Jazz Solo. Utilizing the universal language of music to express its central themes of peace and global responsibility, the ‘Imagine’ project was recorded around the world and features a stellar group of musicians including Jeff Beck, Seal,Pink, Dave Matthews, The Chieftains, Lionel Loueke, Oumou Sangare, Konono #l, Anoushka Shankar, Chaka Khan, Marcus Miller, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Tinariwen, and Ceu.

Herbie Hancock also maintains a thriving career outside the performing stage and recording studio. Recently named by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Creative Chair For Jazz, he currently also serves as Institute Chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, the foremost international organization devoted to the development of jazz performance and education worldwide. Hancock is also a founder of The International Committee of Artists for Peace, and was awarded the much esteemed “Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres” by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon.

In July of 2011 Hancock was designated a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova. Recognizing Herbie Hancock’s “dedication to the promotion of peace through dialogue, culture and the arts,” the Director-General has asked the celebrated jazz musician “to contribute to UNESCO’s efforts to promote mutual understanding among cultures, with a particular emphasis on fostering the emergence of new and creative ideas amongst youth, to find solutions to global problems, as well as ensuring equal access to the diversity of artistic expressions.” UNESCO’s Goodwill Ambassadors are an outstanding group of celebrity advocates who have generously accepted to use their talent and status to help focus the world’s attention on the objectives and aims of UNESCO’s work in its fields of competence: education, culture, science and communication/information.

In December of 2013, Hancock was the recipient of a prestigious Kennedy Center Honor, and in 2014 he was was named the 2014 Norton Professor Of Poetry at Harvard University, completing his lectures series, “The Ethics Of Jazz,” as part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Series for a period of six weeks. His memoirs, Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, were published by Viking in 2014, and in February 2016 he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. A member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hancock is currently in the studio at work on a new album.

Now in the sixth decade of his professional life, Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: in the forefront of world culture, technology, business and music. Though one can’t track exactly where he will go next, he is sure to leave his inimitable imprint wherever he lands.

Searchin’ for a Rainbow…

CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNERS STEVE D. & SHAUN H. More winners still to be chosen!

Jack FM is ready to find that pot o’ gold with the ICONIC classic southern rock band Marshall Tucker Band! Catch the Marshall Tucker Band as they debut at the Kettlehouse Amphitheater Sunday July 18th! Tickets are on sale Thursday May 27th HERE or you can sign up for Wednesdays pre-sale HERE!

Wanna come along to the show? Jack wants to bring along two listeners and their plus ones to the Marshall Tucker Band Sunday July 18th at the Amp, enter to win one of our two pairs of GA lawn tix HERE. Just click that link, fill in your info and we’ll select two winners at random Friday 7.16! Good luck and thanks for tuning in to Jack FM 105.9 Missoula!

Marshall Tucker Band ticket giveaway!
Shinedown at Kettlehouse Amphitheater

Jack FM 105.9 Shinedown giveaway!!

Jack FM 105.9 Missoula is looking forward to rocking out with none other than Shinedown Tuesday August 20th at Kettlehouse Amphitheater, and of course your buddy Jack wants to bring along some friends. We’re ready to rock like it’s 2005 with Shinedown featuring support from Whitefish rock and roll group Uncommon Evolution!

“Leading the charge for 21st  century rock, multi-platinum, record-breaking band Shinedown – Brent Smith, Zach Myers, Eric Bass, and Barry Kerch – has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, earned 11 platinum and gold singles and four platinum and gold albums, and amassed more than 1.5 billion total overall streams to date. Each of Shinedown’s singles released throughout their career have reached the Top 5 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs Chart – an unparalleled feat. The chart-topping band’s latest album yet, ATTENTION ATTENTION (Atlantic Records) uproots convention and delivers a personal, poignant, and powerful body of work that evolves from ruin to reclamation to revelation.”

Wanna go to show on Jack? Then tune in to 105.9 Jack FM Missoula Monday August 5th through 9th, If you can follow directions, your chance at a pair of tickets to see Shinedown August 20th at Kettlehouse Amphitheater are good! Just listen out for the cue to text “JACK” to 406-848-1059. That’s that, Jack will draw 6 winners for one helluva party on the banks of the Blackfoot River.

Purchase tickets and learn more about the show HERE

 

the B-52’s 40th anniversary tour!

Jack FM 105.9 Missoula is stoked for another fantastic evening at the ultimate Montana venue, the Kettlehouse Amphitheater! New wave, ska, cosmic rockers the B-52’s are bringing their 40th anniversary tour to the Amp Thursday August 8th. The B-52’s are bringing along special guests OMD and Berlin for one helluva dance party on the banks of the Blackfoot River.

Selling over 20 million albums worldwide, The B-52s have quietly impacted alternative music, fashion, and culture over the course of four-plus decades. They count John Lennon, Madonna, James Murphy, and Michael Stipe among their disciples. Panic! At The Disco, Blood Orange, The Offspring, Pitbull, Roger Sanchez, and DJ Shadow have sampled classics from the bandʼs discography as Seth MacFarlaneʼs Family Guy, The Simpsons, Sugarland, and more offered up covers of their own. They inched towards the forefront of the post-punk movement in America codified by 1979ʼs self-titled The B-52s. Not only did the record go gold, but it also placed at #152 on Rolling Stoneʼs “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” and #99 on VH1ʼs “Greatest Albums of All Time.” The gold-selling Wild Planet arrived hot on its heels in 1980. With Keith brilliantly filling the void in with music composition and live show guitar duties, 1989ʼs watershed Cosmic Thing elevated the B-52s to another galaxy altogether. It moved 5 million-plus units and spawned a string of Top 10 smashes in the form of the GRAMMY®- nominated “Roam” and “Love Shack”—which Rolling Stone lauded on the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”

Let’s get your love shack shakin baby, purchase tickets and learn more about the show HERE

Jack has a couple pairs saved for three listeners and their plus ones, enter to win tickets to see the B-52’s HERE

 

 

Loveshackin’ with Jack!
RAIN- A Tribute To The Beatles

Jack is so excited about this summers concert season! Since Jack loves a good party he’s bringing some friends along to the upcoming show, RAIN- A Tribute To The Beatles June 18th at Kettlehouse Amphitheatre!

In celebration of the anniversary of Abbey RoadRAIN will bring the greatest hits of this epic recording to life, in addition to all your early Beatles favorites. This mind-blowing performance takes you back in time with the legendary foursome delivering a note-for-note theatrical event that is “the next best thing to seeing the Beatles” (Associated Press). Experience the worlds’ most iconic band and come celebrate the best of Abbey Road with RAIN – A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES.

To enter to win tickets to RAIN-A Tribute To The Beatles, listen in to Jack FM 105.9 Missoula, starting Monday May 20th. When you hear the cue TEXT in the word of the day to 406-848-1059! That’s it, you’re entered to win one of three pairs of tickets! Jack will notify the winners.

To learn more about the show or get tickets yourself check the link HERE