herby hancock has just wrictte " "herby hancock: possibilities," which traces his childhood in chicago to his collaboration with miles dave toys his commitment to budapest -- davis to his commitment to buddhism. a conversation with the incomparable hershby hancock coming up right now. ♪ ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪dczñ >>> herby hancock has embraced just about every musical genre possible from jazz to fusion to funk to hip-hop. now after more than 50 years as a musician and composer, he's considered one of the towering forces in american music with 14 grammy awards and, of course, a lifetime achievement honor from the jazz foundation of america. he's now written finally a new memoir. it's titled d "hersheby hancock possibilities," and talks about the influence of jazz great miles davis. let's look at the two of them performing together. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> what do you make of the blessing of being such a long distance runner? >> i'm just glad we're still here. >> when you see that clip, though, herby, when the clip was playing, made the joke i

and heri herbie herbie hancock w to rock. >>> we begin with the broad expansion of the u.s. military mission in iraq. the u.s. authorized an additional 1500 noncombat troops. that would double the number of fighters sent to combat the push against i.s.i.l. paul beban has the story. >> will pay big in the campaign to defeat i.s.i.l. that money would go towards what the president is calling the iraq train and equip fund. the plan doubles the number of troops on the ground there from 1400 to nearly 3,000. but the pentagon stresses this is not a combat mission. it is to advise the iraqi army and kurdish fighters on the front lines of the battle. >> they've reached a point where they need additional help and guidance. particularly in areas like ann anbar. >> providing high level guidance, others would be spread against 12 smaller scamps throughout the country, working with 9 iraqi and three kurdish brigades that number somewhere between 15 and 30,000 troops. the americans would begin deploying before the end of the year and the training program will last between six and seven mon

herby, you know, i love those guys., i would say a really different approach to worki. >> yhow did you figure these 53 tracks? >> well, first of all, the first thanni thing i did was a ballad. a ballad is 75 minutes. i tried to get it down to 1 b ris, ballet. the war ballet was a triumph. it was a blockbuster. men were on the edge of their seats. >> so i thought oh, they are going to think it and take the songs about seduction, they are more the anatomy of the crime. why couldn't be love was the question? how do you do it? the box set in a couple of places, it states how to do it and how hard it is. stay in touch tells you exactly how to do it and corrinthians tells you what it is and what it isn't. it's really hard. you have to bare the imperfections like the old wives who would rise above it. if the master is a bludgeoning creep, you have to go yes, sir. when you're forced or compelled to have to sit to go through all of this stuff. >> i did it in my head and then listened to it. >> when you're enlisting people for th

herbie hancock with us at the table. how are you?u so much. >> my favorite story in the book. you're on stage in massachusetts and not thrilled with the way you're playing. and miles davis says don't play the butter notes. and you're thinking what does that mean? it takes you to a new way of playing. you find out years later that he said don't play the bottom notes. the misleadings lead you to a new life. talk about what you learned playing with miles? >> he was a genius. he just threw this magic dust out there and somehow it always worked. the great thing is, it really shows what a great teacher he was because he was the kind of guy that would kind of lead you toward a math, but you would have to discover the answers to your issues yourself. he didn't provide you directly with thezers and that's what a great mentor does. >> how did you figure out that that wasn't what he had said? >> i was actually at harvard giving a lecture and doing a q and a. someone said i read miles davis' book and he said play the bottom notes. >> all these y

. >> herby ., we goe go to italy or japan, as soon as we start playing the magic starts. feelings and sensitivities that are human. that's whap is t is so importan about the arts. let your kids study. our congress has never done that. >> you might be onto something. instead of cutting music programs, they ought to be sitting in class. >> that's right. the workshop of human sensitivity. >> you were only half joking th that. when you lose a 40 or 50 year friend like george duke and he was gone so fast, it seep, it seems to me that you start thinking of your own mortality. >> of course. hey, man, it gave me a chance to review that we are okay. i'm from the spirit of god. we just cross over and move on. we talk about it all the time at funerals that he has moved on and we mention he's gone onto heaven. we got the idea from somewhere that this seasis not the end. nothing ends t. comesing in something than we're here to learn this and beautify this and move on. sorry tavis, i probably blew the whole hou

often with a just-picked herby dimension.ng, giver of life, sticky rice. andy here is constantly back and forth from america to thailand, for nearly 25 years now, looking for recipes, techniques, digging deeper and deeper into an amazingly complex and widely misunderstood cuisine. and getting his ass chastised by a few aunties as he goes. >> okay. >> on this trip andy's working on a new cookbook, investigating the eating and drinking culture of the region. which might be why he thought of me and why we're drinking shine for breakfast. where there's food, there's also going to be booze. >> oh. >> and likely a lot of it. >> oh, that's good. >> this is nam prik ong. you make a chili paste with chilies, garlic, shallot, shrimp paste and tomatoes. then you mix it with pork. >> that for you. okay. >> oh, yeah. the nam prik is awesome. >> isn't it delicious? this rice is grown here in the village. you just kind of make a little spoon-shaped ball with it. >> now, what's the famous greeting? is it have you eaten yet or have you had ri

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. >>> hi, join me next time for a conversation with the great musician and composer herby hancock aboutties. that's next time. see you then. ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> charlie: welcome to the program. we begin this evening with neil patrick harris. >> i've lived a lot of chapters and i think that was the thing i keyed in on was that i didn't have a big arc to tell, but i had lots of really extraordinarily interesting things that i have gotten to do, whether they be act as a kid or white water rafting in costa rica or, yeah, having kids through sur roug surrogacy. >> charlie: we conclude with al hunt, his guest denis mcdonough, white house chief of staff. >> we know to win this thing, our effort to degrade and destroy i.s.i.l, our security forces have to be the boots on the ground to take the fight to i.s.i.l. our guys will make sure

. >> orlow and fellow baker, herby, serving three months on an assault charge, are both at the end ofget away with it, they say they take liberties with the recipe. >> let's say i make banana cake, i'm only supposed to put 30 bananas in it. last week, i put about 150 bananas in there. everyone was like that cake was so good. i don't know why, you know. >> he goes home tomorrow. i go home next week. and we don't really care anymore, you know? to be honest with you, we stopped caring. the next bakers can care. >> while jail food may not be to everyone's liking, officials say the meals are designed to prove -- provide a nutritionally sound diet. that's important to heather pratt, because she says she's eating for two now. >> right now i believe i am pregnant. ricky believes we're having a baby together. we've shared that together. >> pratt says she took a home pregnancy test just prior to her arrest a month earlier and believes the father is ricky mckaskle. >> do i know for sure she's telling the truth about her pregnancy? no. she could be just saying she's pregnant. she could be using t

. >> steve: herbie. bumbles bounce! >> jimmy: next from the packers is corey linsley.s voted, most likely to say, "do it again" to a a magician. [ laughter ] cool. next up is charles leno jr from the bears, he was voted most surprising member at the leno family reunion. [ laughter ] next from the bears is starting quarterback, jay cutler. he was voted depressed jason priestly. [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] and finally, from the packers, we have david bakhtiari. he was voted, strongest kardashian sister. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: there you go. there are the "nfl superlatives." [ cheers and applause ] we have a great show! give it up for the roots! ♪ ♪ >> jimmy: that is legendary kinks guitarist dave davies sitting in with the roots tonight. [ cheers and applause ] ah, you're a good man. here's his new album, "rippin' up time" right there. pick it up. i mean, come on. come on. can't beat it. we got a big show tonight. you guys, we're so psyched to have this person here. he's doing stand up. we talked him into that. it's so great. he's one of the best standups ever. i