Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an
American jazz pianist and composer. 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 one of the primary architects
of the "post-bop" sound. Later, he was one of the first jazz musicians to
embrace synthesizers and funk. Yet for all his restless experimentalism,
Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs
"cross over" and achieve success among pop audiences.
Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon
Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo
Santamaria), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the single "Rockit" .
Early life and
A Tribute to Miles,
Acid Jazz,
Be Bop,
Billy Cobham,
Blow Up,
Blue Note,
Cantaloupe Island,
Chameleon,
Chicago,
Contemporary Jazz,
Crossing,
Death Wish,
Direct Step,
Directions in Music,
Dis Is Da Drum,
Electro Jazz,
Electronic,
Empyrean Isles,
Experimental Music,
Fat Albert Rotunda,
Freddie Hubbard,
Free Jazz,
Funk,
Funky,
Funky Jazz,
Future 2 Future,
Future Shock,
Gershwin World,
Hard Bop,
He Who Lives In Many Places,
Headhunters,
Herbie Hancock,
Herbie Hancock Trio,
Hurricane,
Hurricane trio,
Jaco Pastorius,
Jazz,
Live Under the Sky,
Magic Windows,
Maiden Voyage,
Mainstream Jazz,
Michelangelo Antonioni,
Miles Davis,
Modern Composition,
Mwandishi,
My Point of View,
Native Dancer,
Nefertiti,
Perfect Machine,
pianoforte,
pianoforti Fazioli,
Possibilities,
Power Jazz,
Rockit,
Ron Carter,
Round Midnight,
Seven Steps to Heaven,
Sextant,
Soundtrack,
Speak Like A Child,
Stevie Wonder,
Takin Off,
Tempest at the Colosseum,
The Joy of Flying,
The New Standard,
The New Standards,
The Prisoner,
The Spook Who Sat By The Door,
Third Plane,
Tony Williams,
Water Babies,
Wayne Shorter,
