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Herbie Hancock Biography


Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning American jazz pianist and composer. He embraces 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 achieved 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 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 to win the award.

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Herbie Hancock Discography


   1. Takin' Off (1962) – Blue Note
   2. My Point of View (1963) – Blue Note
   3. Inventions and Dimensions (1963) – Blue Note
   4. Empyrean Isles (1964) – Blue Note
   5. Maiden Voyage (1965) – Blue Note
   6. Blow-Up (Soundtrack) (1966) – MGM
   7. Speak Like a Child (1968) – Blue Note
   8. The Prisoner (1969) – Blue Note
   9. Fat Albert Rotunda (1969) – Warner Bros.
  10. Mwandishi (1970) – Warner Bros.
  11. Crossings (1972) – Warner Bros.
  12. Sextant (1973) – Columbia
  13. Head Hunters (1973) – Columbia
  14. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Soundtrack) (1973)
  15. Thrust (1974) – Columbia
  16. Death Wish (Soundtrack) (1974) – Columbia
  17. Dedication (1974) – Columbia
  18. Man-Child (1975) – Columbia
  19. Flood (1975) – Columbia – live album only released in Japan
  20. Secrets (1976) – Columbia
  21. VSOP (1976) – Columbia
  22. VSOP: The Quintet (1977) – Columbia
  23. VSOP: Tempest at the Colosseum (1977) – Columbia
  24. Sunlight (1978) – Columbia
  25. Direct Step (1978) – Columbia
  26. An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978) – Columbia
  27. The Piano (1979) – Columbia
  28. Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979) – Columbia
  29. VSOP: Live Under the Sky (1979) – Columbia
  30. Monster (1980) – Columbia
  31. Mr. Hands (1980) – Columbia
  32. Herbie Hancock Trio (1981) – Columbia
  33. Magic Windows (1981) – Columbia
  34. Lite Me Up (1982) – Columbia
  35. Quartet (1982) – Columbia
  36. Future Shock (1983) – Columbia
  37. Sound-System (1984) – Columbia
  38. Village Life (1985) - Columbia (with Foday Musa Suso)
  39. Round Midnight (Soundtrack) (1986) – Columbia
  40. Perfect Machine (1988) – Columbia
  41. A Tribute to Miles (1994) – Qwest/Warner Bros. (with Wallace Roney, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams)
  42. Dis Is Da Drum (1994) – Verve/Mercury
  43. The New Standard (1995) – Verve
  44. 1 + 1 (1997) – Verve (with Wayne Shorter)
  45. Gershwin's World (1998) – Verve
  46. Mr. Funk (2001) - Columbia
  47. Future2Future (2001) – Transparent
  48. Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall (2002) – Verve
  49. Possibilities (2005) – Concord/Hear Music
  50. The Essential Herbie Hancock (2006) – Columbia/Sony BMG
  51. River: The Joni Letters (2007) – Verve

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