He was also influenced by records of the vocal group the Hi-Lo's. New Releases. Hancock's next jazz-funk albums of the 1970s were Man-Child (1975) and Secrets (1976), which point toward the more commercial direction Hancock would take over the next decade. Close. Herbie Hancock. Herbie Hancock. He gained worldwide recognition as one of the instrument's important innovators while playing with Herbie Hancock in the early seventies. Hancock left Blue Note in 1969, signing with Warner Bros. Records. It is featured on Groban's CD Awake. In 2001 Hancock recorded Future2Future, which reunited Hancock with Laswell and featured doses of electronica as well as turntablist Rob Swift of The X-Ecutioners. Read Full Biography. (C) 1984 Sony BMG Music Entertainment Hancock liked it so much he wished to record it as a song but the ad agency would not let him. This quintet is often regarded as one of the finest jazz ensembles[15] yet. Reddit's home for all things related to Jazz. Hancock was born in Chicago, the son of Winnie Belle (Griffin), a secretary, and Wayman Edward Hancock, a government meat inspector. After a break following his departure from Columbia, Hancock, together with Carter, Williams, Shorter, and Davis admirer Wallace Roney, recorded A Tribute to Miles, which was released in 1994. Plus, during the summer of 2005, Hancock re-staffed the Headhunters and went on tour with them, including a performance at The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. This set was the first compilation of his work at Warner Bros., Blue Note, Columbia and Verve/Polygram. Hancock's best-known compositions include the jazz standards "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon", as well as the hit singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". [6] He studied from age seven, and his talent was recognized early. One of his memorable songs, "Joanna's Theme", was re-recorded in 1997 on his duet album with Shorter, 1+1. With an initial gift from the Northrop Grumman Foundation, in 2016 the Institute launched its free STEM learning curriculum for students throughout the United States and around the world. In 2006 Possibilities was nominated for Grammy Awards in two categories: "A Song for You" (featuring Aguilera) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, and "Gelo No Montanha" (featuring Trey Anastasio on guitar) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance, although neither nomination resulted in an award. In June 2010, Hancock released The Imagine Project. A month later, he recorded Quartet with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, released in the US the following year. All of the students receive full scholarships, as well as stipends to cover their monthly living expenses. In 1982 Hancock contributed to the album New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) by Simple Minds, playing a synthesizer solo on the track "Hunter and the Hunted". From 1978 to 1982, Hancock recorded many albums of jazz-inflected disco and pop music, beginning with Sunlight (featuring guest musicians including Williams and Pastorius on the last track) (1978). The threesome toured to support the album, and toured on-and-off through 2005. All of the students receive full scholarships, as well as stipends to cover their monthly living expenses. [8][14] Byrd was attending the Manhattan School of Music in New York at the time and suggested that Hancock study composition with Vittorio Giannini (which he did for a short time in 1960). The Institute has shifted its free music education programs fully online in response to COVID-19, allowing students across the United States and around the world to continue to engage with jazz masters like Gerald Clayton and Terri Lyne Carrington throughout the year. He also wrote the score/soundtrack, for which he won an Academy Award for Original Music Score. Also in 1994, he appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. [42][43][44] As part of Hancock's spiritual practice, he recites the Buddhist chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo each day. Now, he's one of the most celebrated musicians in the world. We bring the greatest living jazz masters to students in public schools across America. The Headhunters reunited with Hancock in 1998 for Return of the Headhunters, and a version of the band (featuring Jackson and Clark) continues to play and record. [20] Then in 1974, he composed the soundtrack to the first Death Wish film. The rhythm section Davis organized was young but effective, comprising bassist Ron Carter, 17-year-old drummer Williams, and Hancock on piano. Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. [17] Music from the soundtrack was later included on Fat Albert Rotunda (1969), an R&B-inspired album with strong jazz overtones. Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, Washington, District of Columbia. Music video by Herbie Hancock performing Rockit. [5] Like many jazz pianists, Hancock started with a classical music education. The group included Marcus Miller, Carrington, Loueke and Mayer. Hancock was introduced to Davis by the young drummer Tony Williams, a member of the new band. Despite some initial reluctance, Hancock began doubling on electric keyboards including the Fender Rhodes electric piano at Davis's insistence. On June 14, 2008 Hancock performed with others at Rhythm on the Vine at the South Coast Winery in Temecula, California, for Shriners Hospitals for Children. Hancock has a 50-year-plus marriage to Gigi Hancock, whom he married August 31, 1968. Head Hunters is the twelfth studio album by American pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, released October 26, 1973, on Columbia Records. [34] On July 22, 2011, at a ceremony in Paris, he was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Intercultural Dialogue. Maiden Voyagewas released in 1965 on Blue Note Records and was the fifth album led by Hancock, who was only 24 years… (It was released in the US in 2004.) Find Herbie Hancock discography, albums and singles on AllMusic AllMusic. This single ushered in a collaboration with noted bassist and producer Bill Laswell. Herbie Hancock David Rubinson " Chameleon " is a jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock in collaboration with Bennie Maupin , Paul Jackson and Harvey Mason , [1] all of whom also performed the original 15:44 full-length version on the 1973 album Head Hunters featuring solos by Hancock and Maupin. The album contained two live recordings and studio recording songs, with Roney playing Davis's part as trumpet player. The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance is a tuition-free two-year program that accepts one ensemble of musicians for each class. Herbie Hancock has won fourteen Grammy Awards, as well as an Academy Award for the score of Round Midnight. (A live album from a Japan performance, consisting of compositions from those first two Head Hunters releases was released in 1975 as Flood.) [35], In a June 2010 interview with Michael Gallant of Keyboard magazine, Hancock talks about his Fazioli giving him inspiration to do things.[36]. On December 8, 2013, he was given the Kennedy Center Honors Award for achievement in the performing arts with artists like Snoop Dogg and Mixmaster Mike from the Beastie Boys performing his music. Hancock received considerable attention when, in May 1963, he joined Davis's Second Great Quintet. Through his teens, Hancock never had a jazz teacher; however, he developed his ear and sense of harmony. His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album to win the award, after Getz/Gilberto in 1965. In his words: "...by the time I actually heard the Hi-Lo's, I started picking that stuff out; my ear was happening. Hancock also released a solo acoustic piano album, The Piano (1979), which was released only in Japan. The sextet, later a septet with the addition of Gleeson, made three albums under Hancock's name: Mwandishi (1971), Crossings (1972) (both on Warner Bros. Records), and Sextant (1973) (released on Columbia Records); two more, Realization and Inside Out, were recorded under Henderson's name with essentially the same personnel. The students study both individually and as a small group, receiving personal mentoring, ensemble coaching, and lectures on the jazz tradition. Registration for International Jazz Day 2021 is now open. Also, in 1985 Hancock performed as a guest on the album So Red the Rose (1985) by the Duran Duran spinoff group Arcadia. A 1997 duet album with Shorter, entitled 1+1, was successful; the song "Aung San Suu Kyi" winning the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. 1963's Inventions and Dimensions was an album of almost entirely improvised music, teaming Hancock with bassist Paul Chambers and two Latin percussionists, Willie Bobo and Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez. Often he would also write music for TV commercials. The album Head Hunters (1973) was a hit, crossing over to pop audiences but criticized within his jazz audience. "[9], In 1960, he heard Chris Anderson play just once and begged him to accept him as a student. Sign Up For The Official Newsletter Click Here. The album won a Grammy for best group album. Previous Norton lecturers include musicians Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky and John Cage. 26 in D Major, K. 537 (Coronation) at a young people's concert on February 5, 1952, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (led by CSO assistant conductor George Schick) at the age of 11.[8]. This became Hancock's second major compilation of work since the 2002 Columbia-only The Herbie Hancock Box, which was released at first in a plastic 4 × 4 cube then re-released in 2004 in a long box set. Singing through a vocoder, he earned a British hit,[21] "I Thought It Was You", although critics were unimpressed. Sign up for Herbie’s MasterClass! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts ... TIL that Herbie Hancock spite bought a Shelby Cobra with the royalties from Watermelon Man which he stills owns to this day. Hancock’s Head Hunters is the second-bestselling jazz album of all time. During this period, he appeared onstage at the Grammy Awards with Stevie Wonder, Howard Jones, and Thomas Dolby, in a synthesizer jam. Herbie Hancock's lackluster string of electric albums around this period was enhanced by this one shining exception: an incorrigibly eclectic record that flits freely all over the spectrum.Using several different rhythm sections, Herbie Hancock is much more the imaginative hands-on player than at any time since the prime Headhunters period, overdubbing lots of parts from his ever … He rewrote the harmony, tempo and tone and recorded the piece as the track "He Who Lives in Fear" from his The Prisoner album of 1969.[16]. [3] He is also the chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz[3] (known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz until 2019). 18,458 likes. He recorded his first solo album Takin' Off for Blue Note Records in 1962. Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer, and actor. As well as feature film soundtracks, Hancock recorded a number of musical themes used on American television commercials for such then well known products as Pillsbury's Space Food Sticks, Standard Oil, Tab diet cola and Virginia Slims cigarettes. [2] Hancock started his career with Donald Byrd. Mitchell herself also made an appearance. Appearances included In a Silent Way, A Tribute to Jack Johnson and On the Corner. Hancock became fascinated with electronic musical instruments. Hancock also recorded and improvised with guitarist Loueke on Loueke's 1996 debut album Virgin Forest, on the ObliqSound label, resulting in two improvisational tracks – "Le Réveil des agneaux (The Awakening of the Lambs)" and "La Poursuite du lion (The Lion's Pursuit)". Learn more about the world's leading college-level jazz education program, accepting one class of exceptional musicians every two years. Secrets is an August 1976 jazz-funk fusion album by keyboard player Herbie Hancock. Recording sessions for the album took place in the evening at Wally Heider Studios and Different Fur Trading Co. in San Francisco, California. The 2020 virtual final concert featured original student-produced works and reached millions around the globe. 's Tempest in the Colosseum (1977), and Direct Step (1978). The first two, including Fat Albert Rotunda were made available on the 2-CD set Mwandishi: the Complete Warner Bros. [22] This led to more vocoder on his next album, Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979), which gave him another UK hit in "You Bet Your Love".[21]. Hancock's theme is "The Ethics of Jazz. Leonard Cohen contributed a spoken piece set to Hancock's piano. I really got that from Clare Fischer's arrangements for the Hi-Lo's. It featured duets with Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Sting and others. Hancock adapted quickly to the new instruments, which proved to be important in his future artistic endeavors. After George Coleman and Sam Rivers each took a turn at the saxophone spot, the quintet gelled with Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone. It is also Hancock's seventeenth album overall. Other Japan-only albums include Dedication (1974), V.S.O.P. [31], On January 18, 2009, Hancock performed at the We Are One concert, marking the start of inaugural celebrations for American President Barack Obama. Hancock toured with Williams and Carter in 1981, recording Herbie Hancock Trio, a five-track album released only in Japan. During this period, Hancock also composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blowup (1966), the first of many film soundtracks he recorded in his career. He shortly thereafter 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. It was the first jazz hip-hop song[23][24][25] and became a worldwide anthem for breakdancers and for hip-hop in the 1980s. 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. However, although Davis soon disbanded his quintet to search for a new sound, Hancock, despite his departure from the working band, continued to appear on Davis records for the next few years. He also provided introductory and closing comments for the PBS rebroadcast in the United States of the BBC educational series from the mid-1980s, Rockschool (not to be confused with the most recent Gene Simmons' Rock School series). Since 1972, Hancock has practiced Nichiren Buddhism as a member of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International. Drummer Mason was replaced by Mike Clark, and the band released a second album, Thrust, the following year, 1974. Also in 2006 Sony BMG Music Entertainment (which bought out Hancock's old label, Columbia Records) released the two-disc retrospective The Essential Herbie Hancock. The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz is a non-profit music education organization co-founded in 1986 by T. S. Monk, the son of the late American jazz musician Thelonious Monk, opera singer Maria Fisher and jazz musician Clark Terry. Hancock graduated from Grinnell College in 1960,[12] with degrees in electrical engineering and music. (1978). Hancock later toured with the band, and released a concert DVD with a different lineup, which also included the "Rockit" music video. The pianist quickly earned a reputation, and played subsequent sessions with Oliver Nelson and Phil Woods. He was 79. The album was released on September 25, 2007, simultaneously with the release of Mitchell's newest album at that time: Shine. The Art of Composition with Hancock Institute Graduate Lenard Simpson, BeBop to Hip-Hop 2020 Virtual Final Concert, International Jazz Day Virtual Global Concert | #JazzDayAtHome 2020, Panel discussion: International Jazz Day in 2020 with Marcus Miller, Sibongile Khumalo & Nate Chinen, Master Class with Igor Butman | International Jazz Day 2020, Taller Virtual con Danilo Pérez | Día Internacional del Jazz 2020, Reharmonizing Arabic Music with Tarek Yamani | International Jazz Day 2020, Evgeny Pobozhiy Semifinals Set at 2019 Hancock Institute Competition, Max Light Semifinals Set at 2019 Hancock Institute Competition. “Maiden Voyage” Also off 1965’s Maiden Voyage, this tune is uniquely Herbie’s—one built on … In 1983, Hancock had a pop hit with the Grammy-award-winning single "Rockit" from the album Future Shock. I could hear stuff and that's when I really learned some much farther-out voicings – like the harmonies I used on Speak Like a Child – just being able to do that. That was only the second time in history that a jazz album had both those Grammys. Offering the world's most promising young musicians college level training by America's jazz … The series strives to share the positive aspects of jazz with young people who would not otherwise have opportunities to learn about this great national treasure. With schools across the country and around the world closed to limit the spread of the coronavirus, we are working diligently to offer our free educational resources to students, teachers and educators making the difficult transition to learning at home. In 1973, Hancock composed his soundtrack to the controversial film The Spook Who Sat by the Door. We also offered an all-virtual suite of free education programs featuring Danilo Pérez, Oran Etkin, Tarek Yamani and others. The music exhibited strong improvisational aspect beyond the confines of jazz mainstream and showed influence from the electronic music of contemporary classical composers. In 1978, Hancock recorded a duet with Chick Corea, who had replaced him in the Davis band a decade earlier. His parents named him after the singer and actor Herb Jeffries. https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-herbie-hancock-albums This quintet can be heard on Wynton Marsalis's debut album on Columbia (1981). "Maiden Voyage", in fact, started out as a cologne advertisement. 8 in the UK. [32] Hancock also performed Rhapsody in Blue at the 2009 Classical BRIT Awards with classical pianist Lang Lang. Hancock's next album, Dis Is da Drum, released in 1994, saw him return to acid jazz. Hancock's first ventures into electronic music started with a sextet comprising Hancock, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Billy Hart, and a trio of horn players: Eddie Henderson (trumpet), Julian Priester (trombone), and multireedist Bennie Maupin. Since 2012, Hancock has served as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Find Herbie Hancock bio, music, credits, awards, & streaming links on AllMusic - Inventive and intelligent jazz… During this unprecedented time, we need your help to ensure we are able to continue offering our enriching programs to public school students across the country. One of the jazzier songs on the record, the moody ballad "Tell Me a Bedtime Story", was later re-worked as a more electronic sounding song for the Quincy Jones album Sounds...and Stuff Like That!! Herbie Hancock, in full Herbert Jeffrey Hancock, (born April 12, 1940, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American keyboard player, songwriter, and bandleader, a prolific recording artist who achieved success as an incisive, harmonically provocative jazz pianist and then went on to gain wide popularity as a leader of electric jazz-rock groups. The Institute presented the first-ever Virtual Global Concert for International Jazz Day, hosted by Institute Chairman Herbie Hancock, Morgan Freeman and Forest Whitaker and featuring performances by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Marcus Miller, Dianne Reeves and dozens of other world-renowned artists. Louis. -Herbie Hancock While often referred to as the “Tony Williams of funk,” Mike Clark is considered one of the foremost jazz drummers of the genre. Among the instruments Hancock and Gleeson used were Fender Rhodes piano, ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, ARP Pro Soloist Synthesizer, a Mellotron and the Moog synthesizer III. He appeared on the album You're Dead by Flying Lotus, released in October 2014. The Institute’s worldwide, highly regarded Jazz in the Classroom programs are tailored for elementary, middle, high school, and college students to help them develop an understanding of and appreciation for jazz music. Hancock is the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. In the summer of 1968 Hancock formed his own sextet. During this time he also took courses at Roosevelt University. You know, that's where it came from. Vote. The Headhunters made another successful album called Survival of the Fittest in 1975 without Hancock, while Hancock himself started to make even more commercial albums, often featuring members of the band, but no longer billed as The Headhunters. In 1986 Hancock performed and acted in the film 'Round Midnight. This lineup did not consist of any of the original Headhunters musicians. Hancock's three records released in 1971–73 later became known as the "Mwandishi" albums, so-called after a Swahili name Hancock sometimes used during this era ("Mwandishi" is Swahili for "writer"). Davis personally sought out Hancock, whom he saw as one of the most promising talents in jazz. [10] Hancock often mentions Anderson as his harmonic guru.[11]. Cantaloupe IslandAlbum:Empyrean Isles (1964)Written by:Herbie HancockPersonnel:Herbie Hancock — piano Freddie Hubbard … These virtual initiatives have already reached millions worldwide by leveraging the latest digital learning technology. Herbie Hancock's jazz career started in his family's living room, listening to his favorite records and trying to play along. Inventive and intelligent jazz pianist/keyboardist whose distinguished career has covered hard bop, fusion, hip-hop, and dance. Hancock, Williams, and Carter toured internationally with Wynton Marsalis and his brother, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, in what was known as "VSOP II". His film work was prolific during the 1980s, and included the scores to A Soldier's Story (1984), Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986), Action Jackson (1988, with Michael Kamen), Colors (1988), and the Eddie Murphy comedy Harlem Nights (1989). "[37], Hancock's next album is being produced by Terrace Martin,[38] and will feature a broad variety of jazz and hip-hop artists including Wayne Shorter, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Lionel Loueke, Zakir Hussein and Snoop Dogg. "Hornets" was later revised on the 2001 album Future2Future as "Virtual Hornets". Hancock also recorded several less-well-known but still critically acclaimed albums with larger ensembles – My Point of View (1963), Speak Like a Child (1968) and The Prisoner (1969) featured flugelhorn, alto flute and bass trombone. [4] He attended Hyde Park High School. Holders of the chair deliver a series of six lectures on poetry, "The Norton Lectures", poetry being "interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts." This was almost as well received as its predecessor, if not attaining the same level of commercial success. The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance is a tuition-free two-year program that accepts one ensemble of musicians for each class. [39], On May 15, 2015, Hancock received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Washington University in St. Hancock also served as the first artist in residence for Bonnaroo that summer. 199k members in the Jazz community. On this day (June 17) in 1964, pianist Herbie Hancock recorded what would become perhaps his most famous composition ever: “Cantaloupe Island.” The perfect convergence of hard-bop, soul and modal jazz, the song originally appeared on Herbie’s fourth Blue Note album, Empyrean Isles, which featured Hancock in the company of a jazz A-Team: … Lesser known works from the 1980s are the live album Jazz Africa (1987) and the studio album Village Life (1984), which were recorded with Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso. The year 2005 saw the release of a duet album called Possibilities. Recordings, released in 1994. Thi… [30] River won the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy Award. The rhythm section Davis organized was young but effective, comprising bassist Ron Carter, 17-year-old drummer Williams, and Hancock on piano. [40], On May 19, 2018, Hancock received an honorary degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[41]. With funding from additional partners, the Institute is in the process of expanding these groundbreaking curricula. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African-American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by Time Magazine. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles. [45] In 2013, Hancock's dialogue with musician Wayne Shorter and Soka Gakkai International president Daisaku Ikeda on jazz, Buddhism and life was published in Japanese and English. [18] Stephen Erlewine, in a retrospective summary for AllMusic, said, "Head Hunters still sounds fresh and vital three decades after its initial release, and its genre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul, and hip-hop."[19]. On June 5, 2010, he received an Alumni Award from his alma mater, Grinnell College. The video was a hit on MTV and reached No. [28] The video won in five categories at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept...he and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. Also in 2006, Hancock recorded a new song with Josh Groban and Eric Mouquet (co-founder of Deep Forest), entitled "Machine". Herbie Hancock. NEW YORK — Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. Hancock also wrote, arranged and conducted a spy type theme for a series of F. William Free commercials for Silva Thins cigarettes. Hancock toured the world in support of Gershwin's World with a sextet that featured Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ira Coleman, Eli Degibri and Eddie Henderson. "Watermelon Man" (from Takin' Off) was to provide Mongo Santamaría with a hit single, but more importantly for Hancock, Takin' Off caught the attention of Miles Davis, who was at that time assembling a new band. Hancock formed The Headhunters, keeping only Maupin from the sextet and adding bassist Paul Jackson, percussionist Bill Summers, and drummer Harvey Mason. Press J to jump to the feed. [13] Grinnell also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1972. Fans of the legendary jazz innovator and spirited '60s jazz (and that era's soundtrack music) are the best market for this two-CD hodgepodge of rare recordings either composed by or featuring some typically exciting performances by Herbie Hancock. 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