1. Herbie Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group.
55 Facts About Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock soon joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound.
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Herbie Hancock has won an Academy Award and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for his 2007 Joni Mitchell tribute album River: The Joni Letters.
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Since 2012, Herbie Hancock has served as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
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Herbie Hancock is the chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz.
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Herbie Hancock was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Winnie Belle, a secretary, and Wayman Edward Herbie Hancock, a meat inspector for the government.
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Herbie Hancock's parents named him after the singer and actor Herb Jeffries.
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Herbie Hancock started playing piano when he was seven years old, and his talent was recognized when he was young.
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Herbie Hancock was influenced by records of the vocal group the Hi-Lo's.
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In 1960, Herbie Hancock heard Chris Anderson play just once and begged him to accept him as a student.
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Herbie Hancock graduated from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1960, with degrees in electrical engineering and music.
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Herbie Hancock recorded his first solo album, Takin' Off, for Blue Note Records in 1962.
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Herbie Hancock was introduced to Davis by the young drummer Tony Williams, a member of the new band.
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Herbie Hancock received considerable attention when, in May 1963, he joined Davis's Second Great Quintet.
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Herbie Hancock liked it so much he wished to record it as a song but the ad agency would not let him.
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Herbie Hancock rewrote the harmony, tempo and tone and recorded the piece as the track "Herbie Hancock Who Lives in Fear" from his The Prisoner album of 1969.
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Herbie Hancock adapted quickly to the new instruments, which proved to be important in his future artistic endeavors.
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Herbie Hancock's appearances included In a Silent Way, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, and On the Corner.
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Herbie Hancock left Blue Note in 1969, signing with Warner Bros.
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In 1969, Herbie Hancock composed the soundtrack for Bill Cosby's animated prime-time television special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert.
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In 1973, Herbie Hancock was commissioned to compose the soundtrack for the controversial film The Spook Who Sat by the Door, based on the novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee, who had grown up in the same neighborhood of Chicago as Herbie Hancock.
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In 1978, Herbie Hancock recorded a duet with Chick Corea, who replaced him in the Davis band a decade earlier.
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Herbie Hancock released a solo acoustic piano album, The Piano, which was released only in Japan.
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From 1978 to 1982, Herbie Hancock recorded many albums of jazz-inflected disco and pop music, beginning with Sunlight.
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In 1982, Herbie Hancock contributed to the album New Gold Dream by Simple Minds, playing a synthesizer solo on the track "Hunter and the Hunted".
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In 1983, Herbie Hancock had a pop hit with the Grammy Award-winning single "Rockit" from the album Future Shock.
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Herbie Hancock experimented with electronic music on a string of three LPs produced by Laswell: Future Shock, the Grammy Award-winning Sound-System, and Perfect Machine.
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In 1985, Herbie Hancock performed as a guest on the album So Red the Rose by the Duran Duran spinoff group Arcadia.
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Herbie Hancock provided introductory and closing comments for the PBS rebroadcast in the United States of the BBC educational series from the mid-1980s, Rockschool.
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In 1986, Herbie Hancock performed and acted in the film Round Midnight.
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Herbie Hancock would write music for television commercials, with "Maiden Voyage" starting out as a cologne advertisement.
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Herbie Hancock returned with Carter, Williams, Shorter, and Davis admirer Wallace Roney to record A Tribute to Miles, which was released in 1994.
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Herbie Hancock's next album, Dis Is da Drum, released in 1994 is a return to acid jazz.
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Herbie Hancock achieved great success in 1998 with his album Gershwin's World, which featured readings of George and Ira Gershwin standards by Herbie Hancock and a plethora of guest stars, including Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Shorter.
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In 2001, Herbie Hancock recorded Future2Future, which reunited Herbie Hancock with Laswell and featured doses of electronica as well as turntablist Rob Swift of the X-Ecutioners.
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Herbie Hancock later toured with the band, and released a concert DVD with a different lineup, which included the "Rockit" music video.
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Also in 2001 Herbie Hancock partnered with Brecker and Roy Hargrove to record a live concert album saluting Davis and John Coltrane, Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall, recorded live in Toronto.
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Also in 2005, Herbie Hancock toured Europe with a new quartet that included Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke and explored textures ranging from ambient to straight jazz to African music.
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Herbie Hancock served as the first artist in residence for Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee, that summer.
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Also in 2006, Herbie Hancock recorded a new song with Josh Groban and Eric Mouquet, "Machine", which featured on Groban's album Awake.
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On June 14,2008, Herbie Hancock performed with others at Rhythm on the Vine at the South Coast Winery in Temecula, California for Shriners Hospitals for Children.
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On January 18,2009, Herbie Hancock performed at the We Are One concert, marking the start of inaugural celebrations for American President Barack Obama.
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Herbie Hancock performed Rhapsody in Blue at the 2009 Classical BRIT Awards with classical pianist Lang Lang.
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In 2013, Herbie Hancock joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty as a professor in the UCLA music department teaching jazz music.
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On December 8,2013, Herbie Hancock was given the Kennedy Center Honors Award for achievement in the performing arts.
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Herbie Hancock was the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University.
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On May 15,2015, Herbie Hancock received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Washington University in St Louis.
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Herbie Hancock was featured on the track "MOON" by the jazz duo Domi and JD Beck on their debut album NOT TiGHT, released July 29,2022.
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Herbie Hancock has been married to Gigi Herbie Hancock since 1968 and the couple have a daughter.
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Herbie Hancock spends most of her time helping her friends.
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Herbie Hancock got me into the pop art scene in New York in the 1960s and I introduced her to my jazz world.
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Since 1972, Herbie Hancock has practiced Nichiren Buddhism as a member of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.
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In 2014, Herbie Hancock delivered a lecture at Harvard University titled "Buddhism and Creativity" as part of his Norton Lecture series.
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In 1963, at the age of 23, Herbie Hancock purchased a new 1963 AC Shelby Cobra from a dealership in New York City for $6,000.
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Herbie Hancock is still its owner and thus the longest owner of a Cobra.