Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock will always be one of the most revered and controversial figures in jazz, just as his employer/mentor Miles Davis was when he was alive. Unlike Miles, who pressed ahead relentlessly and never looked back until near the very end, Hancock has cut a zigzagging forward path, shuttling between almost every development in electronic and acoustic jazz and R&B over the last third of the 20th century and into the 21st.

Herbie Hancock is an innovative and influential jazz pianist, keyboard player, bandleader and composer who has embraced other musical developments during his career, playing funk and using synthesisers as he explored beyond the scope of the post-bop style which he helped to define as a member of Miles Davis second great quintet from 1963.

Herbie Hancock’s Warner Brothers recordings represent the emergence and unfolding of his Mwandishi Band. This genre-crossing group pioneered an expressive use of sound and technologies, a blend of beat and abstraction, Afrocentric sensibilities, and while fronted by a strong leader, a collectivist approach to making music. The band prepared the groundwork for Hancock’s emergence as a proponent of a synergy between jazz and funk. The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) brings together his complete catalogue for the label, together with singles and promotional recordings, reissued for the very first time.

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz pianist and composer, as well as an Oscar and Grammy Award winner.

Herbie Hancock is one of the most important and influential jazz musicians of the late twentieth century. A revered pianist, he is just as controversial by his early fans, as was his employer and revelator : Miles Davis. But unlike the trumpeter who never turned back (except at the extreme end of his life), Hancock never stopped zigzagging between acoustics and electronics, classical, jazz and R&B, standards and compositions, solo and orchestra. A Disciple, in his own way, of Bill Evans, he quickly imposed his own harmonic and rhythmic approach, not refusing black American influences, blues, funk, gospel, rhythm'n blues, while absorbing the complexities of classical culture.

igitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1980 album including nine bonus tracks. Monster is the 29th album by pianist Hancock.

"An Evening With Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock" was the first of two popular live albums recorded by Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, the second Corea/Hancock released a year after the first in 1979. The record features the two performing on acoustic pianos at three different venues across California and one in Michigan. "An Evening With Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock" features cover works as well as pieces written by the duo and individual works by each artist.

Broadcast on Boston's WBCN-FM, this historic performance captures the visionary keyboardist / composer at a vital juncture, immediately after the October release of this landmark " Headhunters " album. Fearlessly creative, it's presented here in its entirety for the first time.

Broadcast on Boston's WBCN-FM, this historic performance captures the visionary keyboardist / composer at a vital juncture, immediately after the October release of this landmark " Headhunters " album. Fearlessly creative, it's presented here in its entirety for the first time.