Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock is a popular Jazz artist from United States, born on April 12, 1940.

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. . Popular albums include "Thrust", "Head Hunters", "Maiden Voyage", "Sextant", "Speak Like a Child" and "Empyrean Isles".