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Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Hancock is one of jazz music's most important and influential pianists and composers. He embraced elements of rock, funk, and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz.
As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet" Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was later one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and hip hop. Yet for all his restless experimentalism, Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "crossover" and achieve success among pop audiences.
Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (first on 1962's Takin' Off, then on 1973's Head Hunters and later perfomed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaria), George Gershwin's "Summertime", and the single
"Rockit.
Herbert Hancock Discography
Album
2005 Herbie Hancock [Platinum Disc]
2005 Possibilities
2005 Live: Detroit/Chicago
2005 Speak Like a Child [Bonus Tracks/RVG Edition]
2005 Inventions & Dimensions [Bonus Track]
2004 V.S.O.P.: Live Under the Sky [Bonus Tracks]
2004 The Piano [Bonus Tracks]
2003 Takin' Off [Toshiba]
2003 Prisioner [Bonus Tracks]
2002 Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
2002 Day Dreams
2001 Future 2 Future
2001 Mr. Funk
2001 Future 2 Future [Japan Bonus Track]
2000 Jammin' with Herbie Hancock
2000 Night Walker
1998 Gershwin's World
1998 Gershwin's World [Japan]
1997 1+1
1996 In Concert
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