Herbie Hancock The Imagine Project

From his pioneering post-bop journeys with Miles Davis in the '60s to his '70s fusion work and his '80s electro-funk, Herbie Hancock has always been an explorer at heart. So it's only natural that The Imagine Project -- which will be a film as well as a boundary-busting album -- finds him traveling all across the globe to collaborate with an international roster of artists that includes Anoushka Shankar, The Chieftains, Ceu, Chaka Khan, Oumou Sangare, Juanes, and Jeff Beck, among others.

Abstract by Jim Allen