Herbie Hancock
Credited as Hancock, H. Hancock · Born Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
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American jazz pianist, keyboardist, composer, band leader (born April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois, USA).
Hancock is one of the best-known modern jazz composers, creator of “Watermelon Man” (which has been a reference point throughout his career), “Maiden Voyage”, “Dolphin Dance”, right through to the dance grooves of “a release”. Learned the piano from the age of 6, performing piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra aged 11.
Records
Freddie Hubbard
Hub-Tones
1963
Piano
The Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Smiles
1967
Piano
Herbie Hancock
Speak Like A Child
1968
Piano
Wes Montgomery
Road Song
1968
Piano
Chick Corea / Herbie Hancock
An Evening With Chick Corea And Herbie Hancock
1979
Piano
George Benson
Give Me The Night
1980
Piano, Synthesizer
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
1982
Producer, Piano
Branford Marsalis
Royal Garden Blues
1986
Piano
George Benson
George Benson
1987
Piano
Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery Plays the Blues
1988
Marcus Miller
M²
2001
Piano
Herbie Hancock
River: The Joni Letters
2007
Piano, Producer, Arranger