Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock is an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader whose work spans acoustic jazz, funk, and electronic music.

Head Hunters: A 1973 Herbie Hancock album that joined jazz improvisation with funk rhythms and synthesizers. Its electric grooves made Hancock’s jazz-funk fusion a major commercial success.
Acoustic piano: A keyboard instrument that produces sound when hammers strike strings. Hancock’s touch and harmonic fluency first developed through acoustic piano.
Miles Davis: An American trumpeter and bandleader who transformed several styles of modern jazz. Hancock’s tenure in Davis’s second great quintet sharpened his modern jazz language.
Chicago jazz: The jazz traditions and musical communities that developed in Chicago. Hancock grew up in Chicago, where local music and formal study shaped his beginnings.
Jazz-funk: A style combining jazz improvisation with funk rhythms and amplified instruments. Hancock’s 1970s records helped bring this hybrid to a broad audience.
Rockit: A 1983 instrumental by Herbie Hancock built around electronic production and turntable scratching. Its sound brought hip-hop turntablism into a jazz musician’s pop hit.
Electric piano: A piano-style instrument that converts key presses into an electrical signal or electronically generated tone. Hancock used its distinctive timbre to shape his electric-band sound.
Wayne Shorter: An American jazz saxophonist and composer known for inventive, concise writing. Shorter joined Hancock in Miles Davis’s quintet and later co-founded the group V.S.O.P.
Classical music: A broad tradition of composed art music with written repertoires and formal institutions. Hancock studied classical piano before building a career in jazz.
Hip-hop music: A culture and musical tradition centered on rapping, DJing, sampling, and related practices. “Rockit” connected Hancock’s electronic music with the emerging culture of turntablism.

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