Herbie Hancock wore dark glasses for his first performance in India, but he wasn't trying to look cool.

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He was trying to shield the 14 stitches he got to close a deep cut under his left eye. The jazz pianist fell off a platform in front of the Taj Mahal while posing for photographs Saturday.While jamming Sunday with seven students from the Thelonius Monk Institute in Boston, Hancock joked about having trouble reading his notes as he introduced his band: "If I get any of your names wrong, you can punch me in the other eye."

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