Who is Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles, utilizing a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this period that he released perhaps his best-known and most influential album, Head Hunters.Hancock's best-known compositions include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon", all of which are jazz standards. During the 1980s, he enjoyed a hit single with the elect...Read Full Biography of Herbie Hancock
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- Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
- It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
- I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
- But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
- I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
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Vintage_obscura: ford & angel [usa, lounge, funk] (1977) chameleon possibly the last thing you would expect from a record with this cover is a absolutely scorching cover this herbie hancock jazz-funk masterpiece. this lounge comedy/music duoJazzmeikyokubot: file number 184:herbie hancock - cantaloupe island:
Wxycautodj: now playing: butterfly by herbie hancock & headhunters.
Allthings_jazz: wayne shorter “go”
Radiotopcharts: herbie hancock - rock it [remix]
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