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Chicago, United States (1940 – present)
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, United States. 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’ “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 jazz funk. Yet for all his restless experimentation, Hancock’s music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs “crossover” and achieve success among pop audiences.
Probably the most influential era in Herbie Hancock’s extensive career is with the ”Headhunters” ensemble during the mid-late 70’s, including (among others) Paul Jackson on bass, Bennie Maupin on saxophones, Harvey Mason on drums, ”Wah Wah” Watson on guitar and Bill Summers on percussion.
His 2007 tribute album, River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
Early life and career
Like many jazz pianists, Hancock started with a classical music education; Hancock studied from age seven. His talent was recognized early, and he played the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 5 at a young people’s concert with the Chicago Symphony at age eleven.[1]
As part of Miles Davis’ “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 jazz funk. Yet for all his restless experimentation, Hancock’s music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs “crossover” and achieve success among pop audiences.
Probably the most influential era in Herbie Hancock’s extensive career is with the ”Headhunters” ensemble during the mid-late 70’s, including (among others) Paul Jackson on bass, Bennie Maupin on saxophones, Harvey Mason on drums, ”Wah Wah” Watson on guitar and Bill Summers on percussion.
His 2007 tribute album, River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
Early life and career
Like many jazz pianists, Hancock started with a classical music education; Hancock studied from age seven. His talent was recognized early, and he played the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 5 at a young people’s concert with the Chicago Symphony at age eleven.[1]
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Head Hunters
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Maiden Voyage
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River: The Joni Letters
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mynameisjoehann wrote:
cool
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tronsuser wrote:
makes me wanna thrust into a watermelon
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szmataarmata wrote:
Hey! If you are fan o Weather Report (with Jaco or without him) join my group - http://www.lastfm.pl/group/Weather+Report
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phylloxr wrote:
Frankly speaking, I seldom listen to his Jazz albums. But his 70`s funk albums are exceptional. When his playing `Funk`, he is breathtakingly awesome.
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phylloxr wrote:
Hang Up Your Hangups....Doing It ....I Thought It Was You...Saturday Night.....Kuru/Speak Like A Child....I`m listening now...www
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intowonder wrote:
As Miles said... Never The Same Twice................Rock On Herb!!!!!!!
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CharlesTBagger wrote:
Ooooooooooooooooo love it baby!
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Inci90 wrote:
jazz master <3
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gui_cossich wrote:
a song for you !
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Kirill88 wrote:
jazz? i just hear frickin' "Rockin"
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Jazzylicious187 wrote:
Sextent, Thrust, Head Hunters...... all these great albums Herbie made are just legendary.
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sheepareevil wrote:
it's only a shame there werent anymore than two real headhunters albums. the headhunters records without herbie are still pretty good but nothing as sublime as those two albums as far as jazz-funk goes.
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useh wrote:
Thrust might be better, but you need both records
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mecha51 wrote:
Thrust & Dedication are terrific albums. I still don't have Headhunters. Need to remedy that. I was even surprised by how much I liked on River.
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sheepareevil wrote:
its frustrating how much I have to listen to herbie to get him to jump up my charts. but i agree that thrust > headhunters and speak like a child = massively underrated
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Jordinho wrote:
Speak Like a Child is one of the most underrated albums in the history of albums.
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JaapStobbe wrote:
The structure of Come Running To Me.........amazing jazz-funk
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CG-SE wrote:
rockit is a real milestone of entire music history.
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lovelikesummer wrote:
genius
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Schrubbel wrote:
Welcome to Schru´s JAZZworldMusic http://www.lastfm.de/user/Schrubbel . Listen and Enjoy !
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Herbie Hancock Statement on the Passing of Michael Jackson
25 Jun 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/herbiehancock
This is an unbelievable tragedy, first of all for his family, for his devout fans, for the world of music and for the world of culture. Michael was one of the most diligent creators. Hi...
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