During this time he also took courses at Roosevelt University. Hancock then moved to Chicago, and began working with Donald Byrd and Coleman Hawkins. Hancock graduated from Grinnell College in 1960 with degrees in electrical engineering and music. Hancock often mentions Anderson as his harmonic guru. In 1960, he heard Chris Anderson play just once and begged him to accept him as a student. he and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept . I really got that from Clare Fischer's arrangements for the Hi-Lo's. 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. In his words:īy the time I actually heard the Hi-Lo's, I started picking that stuff out my ear was happening.

He was also influenced by records of the vocal group the Hi-Lo's. Throughout his teens, Hancock never had a jazz teacher however, he developed his ear and sense of harmony by listening to the records of jazz pianists such as George Shearing, Erroll Garner, Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson. 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 age 11. Considered a child prodigy, he played the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. He started playing piano when he was seven years old, and his talent was recognized early. Like many jazz pianists, Hancock started with a classical education. His parents named him after the singer and actor Herb Jeffries. Hancock was born in Chicago, the son of Winnie Belle (née Griffin), a secretary, and Wayman Edward Hancock, a government meat inspector. He is also the chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz (known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz until 2019). 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. Hancock has won an Academy Award and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for his 2007 Joni Mitchell tribute album River: The Joni Letters, becoming only the second jazz album to win the award after Getz/Gilberto in 1965. During the 1980s, he enjoyed a hit single with the electronic instrumental ' Rockit', a collaboration with bassist/producer Bill Laswell. Hancock's best-known compositions include ' Cantaloupe Island', ' Watermelon Man', ' Maiden Voyage', and ' Chameleon', all of which are jazz standards. It was during this period that he released perhaps his best-known and most influential album, Head Hunters.

In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles, using a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. 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. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.

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