Music: Jazz legend Herbie Hancock plays the Mann tonight

A: No, [laughing] but I did a lot of chanting! I felt I shouldn't just be satisfied and passive about it, so I put my whole feeling and energy behind winning this for the sake of the people. Jazz is America's music. And I also thought about what some of the other nominees represented in some ways. Kanye West comes off as being arrogant, and while he's not that inside, that's the persona he gives off, and I think it's a bad idea to put that out, because young people are influenced by that. Another nominee, Amy Winehouse, she's had her problems, her demons to deal with. So I was thinking - what kind of images, goals, do we want to show our young people? What are the Grammys about? That's the responsibility involved. So I used my Buddhist practices, chanting three hours a day and also shedding any kind of negative force. In other words, I increased my faith in winning for the greater good. And it worked!

Herbie Hancock's "The Imagine Project" at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 52nd and Parkside Avenue, 8 tonight, $40 and $20 (lawn seats), 215-893-1999, www.manncenter.org.