Future Shock album cover
Future Shock

Herbie Hancock

1983
CBS

Inspirationally, the common denominator between modern jazz greats Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat and Flying Lotus might be the late, great J Dilla. But the first to connect hip-hop and jazz like they organically deserved to share the same space was pianist Herbie Hancock on “Rockit,” the Grammy-winning centerpiece of his 35th album, Future Shock. He’d already piloted a flying saucer on the cover of Thrust (1974). But on Future Shock—a collaboration with Bill Laswell and his avant-garde group, Material—Hancock embraced GrandMixer DXT’s turntablism and the latest Fairlight synthesizers to explore a post-modern jazz with eyes and ears toward the 21st century.

Miles Marshall Lewis

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