Melvin Ragin, the guitarist who performed as Wah Wah Watson through decades of recording and touring — with the Temptations, Michael Jackson, Maxwell, Herbie Hancock, Alicia Keys and dozens of others ...

Fired from the quintet in ‘68, 'for returning late from his honeymoon' (a rather unsympathetic ground for dismissal, although typical of the often icy Davis), Hancock started focusing on his own music ...

Herbie Hancock closed out Saturday's program at the New Orleans Jazz Fest with a joyous, often danceable lesson in the cross-genre programming he has championed since his days as a Miles Davis sideman ...