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Herbie Hancock
1940-04-12 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. 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. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award after Getz/Gilberto in 1965. As a member of Soka Gakkai, Hancock is an adherent of the Nichiren school of Mahayana Buddhism.
Known for
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Traffic
Indecent Proposal
Blow-Up
Death Wish
Girl Meets World
Colors
Tuner
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Harlem Nights
Action Jackson
Miles Ahead
A Soldier's Story
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
'Round Midnight
Movie credits · 101
Tuner
Herbie
Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl
Don Lewis and The Live Electronic Orchestra
They All Came Out to Montreux
Joni Mitchell - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song
Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes
Herbie Hancock - Live at SummerStage 2022
Hargrove
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
That Click
Buster Williams Bass to Infinity
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
International Jazz Day Australia Concert 2019
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Chick Corea: The Musician
More Than Jazz
Jazz at the White House
River of Gold
Miles Ahead
Kareem: Minority of One
Marcus
Herbie Hancock Trio - Full Concert - 08/14/88 - Newport Jazz Festival
Charles Lloyd - Arrows Into Infinity
Keep on Keepin' On
Experience Montreux
Lang Lang & Herbie Hancock - Live in Berlin
Gustavo Dudamel and Herbie Hancock Celebrate Gershwin
The Girls in the Band
A Man's Story
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
On the Shoulders of Giants
Music
DeJohnette, Metheny, Holland, Hancock - Parallel Realities Live
TV credits · 18
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Jay Leno's Garage
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Girl Meets World
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Glastonbury
Classic Albums
Later... with Jools Holland
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
ECHO-Verleihung
The South Bank Show
Saturday Night Live
Rock Concert
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
Great Performances
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Grammys
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