Herbie has been named the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s next creative chair for jazz beginning 2010, inheriting his two-year residency from bassist Christian McBride.
Herbie told the Associated Press: “I’m interested in [the] cross-pollination of music of various cultures and would like to see more interaction between visuals and music. Ballet or some sort of pop-oriented kind of dance interacting with jazz, visuals done with computer graphics or film segments with jazz, or a mixture of jazz and other genres.”
Herbie’s duties will include directing jazz programming at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.