Herbie Hancock Announces 2024 Australia And New Zealand Tour

Trailblazer Herbie Hancock today (July 8) announced he will be touring around Australia and New Zealand this October.

The jazz icon will kick off his tour on October 8 at Auckland’s Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre. He’ll then hit up Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre on October 9, before flying Down Under.

He’ll play two shows at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on October 11 and 12, followed by Canberra Theatre on October 14 and QPAC Concert Hall in Brisbane on October 17. With a starring role at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival – performing at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on October 19 – Hancock will then hit up Adelaide’s Festival Theatre on October 20, and conclude his tour at Perth Concert Hall on October 22.

The Sydney Opera House Insiders pre-sale opens at 9am tomorrow, July 9, while the general sale for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival opens at 1pm tomorrow.

The Live Nation pre-sale for the rest of the shows opens at 9am local time the next day, July 10, and the general sale opens 24 hours later, at 9am on July 11.

Hancock, with a career spanning seven decades, has been a force to be reckoned with, garnering a whopping 14 Grammy awards and putting out classic hits like Cantaloupe Island, Chameleon and Rockit.

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In a live review of Hancock’s Sydney show in 2019, Chris Familton wrote for The Music:

Hancock himself divided his time between his various instruments, pacing himself before going deep on a solo, notes near flying off the keys in a blur of fingers, whether it was light, dancing runs or heavy, slamming chordal accents. He remains a dazzling and inventive player, still taking his music to thrilling and otherworldly places.
This was no artist playing it safe at the tail-end of his career – this was a celebratory night of music and creative spirit par excellence from a true innovator and legend of modern music.