Herbie Hancock

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award after Getz/Gilberto in 1965. As a member of Soka Gakkai, Hancock is an adherent of the Nichiren school of Mahayana Buddhism. Description above from the Wikipedia article Herbie Hancock, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For: Acting

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1940-04-12

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964		0
2	1974	PBS Soundstage 1974: Chick Corea & Return to Forever + Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters		0
3	1984	Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!	Self - Piano	0
4	1984	I Love Quincy	Self	0
5	1985	The Making of Sun City	Self	0
6	1986	'Round Midnight	Eddie Wayne	71
7	1986	Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis	Self	0
8	1987	Herbie Hancock At The Munich Summer Piano Festival	Himself	60
9	1987	Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions	Himself	0
10	1988	Live at Munich Summer Piano Festiva		0
11	1990	Celebrity Guide to Wine	Self	100
12	1990	Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland: Parallel Realities Live... (Live at Mellon Jazz Festival)	Keyboards	0
13	1990	Jazz Under the Skies	Self	0
14	1990	Dejohnette, Hancock, Holland and Metheny in Concert		0
15	1991	Branford Marsalis: Steep	Self	0
16	1991	Miles Davis - At La Villette	Himself	42
17	1991	The Neville Brothers: Tell It Like It Is		85
18	1993	Indecent Proposal	Himself	64
19	1995	Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute	Self - Pianist	0
20	1995	Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar	Self	0
21	1996	Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996		100
22	1997	Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz	Self	72
23	2001	Herbie Hancock: Jazz Channel	Herbie Hancock	45
24	2002	Herbie Hancock Future2future Live	Himself	38
25	2002	The Jazz Channel Presents Herbie Hancock	Himself	0
26	2002	World of Rhythm: Live in Lugano	Self	0
27	2002	Hitters	District Attorney	28
28	2003	Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind	Self	59
29	2003	Prachtig 80: Volume 2	Self	0
30	2004	Larry presents: Best of The 80s	Self	0
31	2004	Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux		70
32	2004	One Night with Blue Note	Self	69
33	2004	Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments	Self	75
34	2004	Herbie Hancock Special		0
35	2004	Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue	Self	60
36	2006	Herbie Hancock: Possibilities	Self	54
37	2006	Marcus Miller - Master Of All Trades	Self	42
38	2008	Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound	Self	0
39	2008	Herbie Hancock - The River Of Possibilities Tour - Jazz a Vienne	Piano	0
40	2008	Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux	Self	62
41	2008	Miles Davis: Kind of Blue	Himself	38
42	2009	We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial	Self	46
43	2010	DeJohnette, Metheny, Holland, Hancock - Parallel Realities Live	Himself	80
44	2010	Music	Self	0
45	2011	On the Shoulders of Giants		63
46	2011	Tribute to Miles - Jazz a Vienne	Himself	60
47	2011	Miles Davis: Around Midnight	Piano	0
48	2011	All-Star Jazz Show: Live From The Ed Sullivan Theater	Self	0
49	2011	A Man's Story	Self	69
50	2011	The Girls in the Band		62
51	2011	Gustavo Dudamel and Herbie Hancock Celebrate Gershwin		0
52	2012	Lang Lang & Herbie Hancock - Live in Berlin	Himself	75
53	2012	A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand	Self	56
54	2013	Experience Montreux	Self	0
55	2014	Keep On Keepin’ On	Self	70
56	2014	Charles Lloyd - Arrows Into Infinity	Piano	60
57	2015	Marcus	Self	60
58	2015	Kareem: Minority of One	Self	72
59	2016	Miles Ahead	Live Concert Band	64
60	2016	River of Gold	Narrator	0
61	2016	Jazz at the White House	Self	0
62	2016	More Than Jazz	Himself	0
63	2017	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	Defence Minister	66
64	2018	Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones	Self	70
65	2019	Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes	Self	69
66	2023	They All Came Out to Montreux	Self	90
67		Herbie Hancock And The Rockit Band Live in London	Themself	0
68	2014	Herbie Hancock Trio - Full Concert - 08/14/88 - Newport Jazz Festival	Self	0
69	2018	It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story	Self	82
70	2019	International Jazz Day Australia Concert 2019	Self	80
71	2019	Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool	Self - Musician	72
72	2019	Buster Williams Bass to Infinity	Himself	0
73	2019	That Click	Self	90
74	2022	Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens		50
75	2022	Hargrove	Self	70
76	2022	Herbie Hancock - Live at SummerStage 2022	Self	0
77	2022	Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes	Self	70
78	2023	Joni Mitchell - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song	Self	90
79	2024	Don Lewis and The Live Electronic Orchestra	Self	0
80	2025	Herbie	Self (Archives)	0
81		Herbie Hancock And The Rockit Band	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	The Grammys	Self	87
2	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
3	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
4	1972	Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest	Self	53
5	1973	Rock Concert	Self	80
6	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Musical Guest	70
7	1992	ECHO-Verleihung	Self	0
8	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
9	1995	Kulturzeit	self	35
10	1997	Classic Albums	Self	77
11	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
12	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		59
13	2014	Girl Meets World	Self	83
14	2015	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Self	67
15	2015	Jay Leno's Garage	Self	73
16	2020	By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem	Himself	33

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