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Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, United States. Hancock is one of jazz music's most important and influential pianists and composers. He embraced elements of rock, funk, and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. As part of Miles Davis' "second great quintet" Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was later one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and jazz funk. |
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News in english
about Herbie Hancock
(November / 2009)
China's piano-playing phenomenon Lang Lang on Revealed Date: 12 Nov 2009
CNN -
Lang Lang Revealed - narrated by Jazz Legend Herbie Hancock.
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Regina Weinreich: Jazz Baroness on HBOJazz Baroness on HBO/ Burn the Floor on Broadway Date: 24 Nov 2009
The Huffington Post -
Herbie Hancock remembers Pannonica, the Rothschild heir who so loved American jazz that she abandoned an aristocratic European life of castles where royalty dined, to...
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Review: John Mayer "Battle Studies" Date: 30 Nov 2009
The Free Press -
Everybody knows John Mayer's 2001 bubblegum sex-pop ditty, "Your Body is a Wonderland" and its endearing combination of quiet guitar strumming and sweetly graphic lyrics. Somewhat less well-known is that Mayer may be one of the best guitarists alive today. He's won every major music award (including 13 Grammys) and jammed with blues and jazz giants like Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Herbie Hancock, B ...
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