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Herbie Hancock
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Herbie Hancock, from Chicago, played a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of eleven. In jazz he named Bill Evans as an important influence on his harmony. His first album Takin' Off (1962) contained Watermelon Man, which became a hit. From 1963 to 1968 he played in Miles Davis's second quintet. For Blue Note he recorded Maiden Voyage, a modal album about the sea. In the 1970s he went electric: Head Hunters (1973) brought jazz and funk together. In 1983 he had a hit with Rockit, with scratches by a DJ. Hancock kept on using new technology.
Listening
Listening tip. Notice the piano chords: open and floating, never fully resolved.
Watermelon Man · Herbie Hancock, 1962
Cantaloupe Island · Herbie Hancock, 1964
Rockit · Herbie Hancock, 1983
Chameleon · Herbie Hancock, 1973Apple Music ↗
Maiden Voyage · Herbie Hancock, 1965- Sly · Herbie Hancock, 1973
Discography
Studio albums
- 1962Takin’ Off
- 1963My Point of View
- 1964Empyrean Isles
- 1964Inventions & Dimensions
- 1965Maiden Voyage
- 1966Blow-Up (soundtrack)
- 1968Speak Like a Child
- 1969Fat Albert Rotunda
- 1969The Prisoner
- 1970Jammin’ With Herbie
- 1971Mwandishi
- 1972Crossings
- 1973Head Hunters
- 1973Sextant
- 1973The Spook Who Sat By The Door (soundtrack)
- 1974Death Wish (soundtrack)
- 1974Dedication
- 1974Thrust
- 1975Man-Child
- 1976Secrets
- 1978Sunlight
- 1978Third Plane
- 1979Butterfly
- 1979Directstep
- 1979Feets Don’t Fail Me Now
- 1979The Piano
- 1980Monster
- 1980Mr. Hands
- 1981Magic Windows
- 1982Lite Me Up
- 1982Quartet
- 1983Future Shock
- 1984Sound-System
- 1985Village Life
- 1986Round Midnight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1987Nightwind
- 1988Perfect Machine
- 1991Out of This World
- 1994A Tribute to Miles
- 1994Dis Is da Drum
- 1996The New Standard
- 19971+1
- 1998Gershwin’s World
- 2000Nightlife Late Night
- 2001Future 2 Future
- 2005Possibilities
- 2007River: The Joni Letters
- 2008Late Night Jazz Favorites
- 2010The Imagine Project
In School of Rock
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- Jazz MapNL Map
- Mixtape 5: Jazz FestivalNL Reader
- Mixtape 10: Women in Pop MusicNL Reader
- After Hours: Session 3NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 4NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Nu jazz Genre
Hip hop producers searched old jazz, soul and funk records for breaks to sample; in 1993 Us3 made Cantaloop on a sample of Herbie Hancock.
- Modal jazz Genre
In the 1960s John Coltrane, the pianist McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock built on the modal approach.
- Jazz-funk Genre
In 1973 Herbie Hancock recorded Head Hunters, which for a long time was the best-selling jazz album; he plays the bass line of Chameleon himself on a synthesizer.
- Jazz rap Genre
The British group Us3 gained access to the Blue Note archive and scored with Cantaloop, built on Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island.