Biography

Herbie Hancock will always be one of the most revered and controversial figures in jazz, just as his employer and 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. Though grounded in Bill Evans and able to absorb blues, funk, gospel, and even modern classical influences, Hancock's piano and keyboard voices are entirely his own, with their own urbane harmonic and complex rhythmic signatures. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Top Tracks

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• A Song For You

• Afro Boogie

• All Apologies

• Alphabeta

• Autodrive

• Be What

• Both Sides Now

• Butterfly

• Cantaloupe Island

• Cantaloupe Islands

• Chameleon

• Chan's Song (never Said)

• Circle

• Cotton Tail

• D Trane

• Debo

• Diana

• Dis Is Da Drum

• Doin' It

• Dolphin Dance

• Dunia

• Edith And The Kingpin

• Future Shock

• Gettin' To The Good Part

• Give It All Your Heart

• Hang Up Your Hang Ups

• Hardrock

• Herbie's Blues

• Hornets

• Hot Piano

• Hush, Hush, Hush

• I Have A Dream

• I Just Called To Say I Love You

• I Thought It Was You

• Introduction/maiden Voyage

• Jammin' With Herbie

• Jessica

• Kamili

• Kawanda

• Kebero, Pt. 2

• King Cobra

• Kumbasora

• La Fiesta

• Lawra

• Lazy Bird

• Little Waltz

• Maiden Voyage

• Maiden Voyage/b. Bop

• Main Title From "blow-up"

• Making Love

• Matovu -- Bor'chu

• Mimosa

• Misstery

• Mojuba

• My Funny Valentine

• Nefertiti

• Night Walker

• No Means Yes

• On Green Dolphin Street

• One Finger Snap

• One Of A Kind

• Ostinato (suite For Angela)

• Palm Grease

• Perfect Machine

• Rain Dance

• Red Clay

• Riot

• Rock Your Soul

• Rockit

• Sanctification

• Sleeping Giant

• Sleeping Giant, Pts. 1-5

• So What/impressions

• Someday My Prince Will Come

• Sonrisa

• Soul Power

• Sound System

• Spank-a-lee

• Speak Like A Child

• St. Louis Blues

• Stars In Your Eyes

• Steppin' In It

• Stroll On

• Succotash

• Summertime

• Tamatant Tilay/exodus

• Tempo De Amor

• The Pleasure Is Mine

• The Prisoner

• The Song Goes On

• The Sorcerer

• The Tea Leaf Prophecy (lay Down Your Arms)

• The Times They Are A Changin'

• The Traitor

• This Is Rob Swift

• Tones For Joan's Bones

• Torah Service -- Adoration

• Watermelon Man

• Wiggle-waggle

• Witchfire

• You Will Know When You Get There

• You've Got It Bad Girl

Discography

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• The Imagine Project

  Hancock Records

  2010

• Possibilities

  Hear Music (Starbucks) / Vector/Hancock

  2005

• Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall

  Verve

  2002

• Gershwin's World

  Verve

  1998

• 1+1

  Verve / Polygram

  1997

• The New Standard

  Verve / Polygram

  1996

• Dis Is Da Drum

  Mercury

  1994

• Lite Me Up

  Sony Music Distribution

  1982

• Live Under the Sky

  TriStar Music

  1981

• Herbie Hancock Quartet

  Columbia

  1981

• Directstep

  Sony Music Distribution

  1979

• Live in Japan

  Columbia

  1977

• V.S.O.P., Vol. 1

  Columbia / Sony Music Distribution

  1976

• Hear, O Israel

  Jonny

  1968

• Blow-Up

  CBS Records

  1966

• Succotash

  1964