Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock " (como el 12 de Abril de 1940) is an American pianista, director de orquesta and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock ayudado redefine the role of a jazz, rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop" de sonido. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace sintetizador and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many canciones "cross over" y achieved success among pop audiencias. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopción freer stylistic elemento from jazz. En his jazz, la improvisación, el pp possesses a unique creative mezcla de jazz, blues, and modern classical music with harmonic estilismo 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 líder de la banda Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It was You" y "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for the Album of the Year, only the second album de jazz ever to win the award after Getz/Gilberto, en 1965. As a member of Soka Gakkai, Hancock is a adherent of the Nichiren school of Mahayana Buddhism.