Herbie Hancock

Known for SoundBorn 1940-04-12 (age 86)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996

Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute

The Making of Sun City

Joni Mitchell - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song

That Click

They All Came Out to Montreux

Girl Meets World

The Neville Brothers: Tell It Like It Is

Celebrity Guide to Wine

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

Herbie

International Jazz Day Australia Concert 2019

The Grammys

DeJohnette, Metheny, Holland, Hancock - Parallel Realities Live

Rock Concert

World of Rhythm - Live in Lugano

Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar

Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert

Classic Albums

Lang Lang & Herbie Hancock - Live in Berlin

Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos

Jay Leno's Garage

Kareem: Minority of One

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Keep On Keepin' On

Hargrove

Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes

Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones

Tuner

Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

One Night with Blue Note

Traffic

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux

A Man's Story

Blow-Up

'Round Midnight

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue

Death Wish

Saturday Night Live

A Soldier's Story

Miles Ahead

Herbie

On the Shoulders of Giants