Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock has always gone whichever way he has chosen. Acoustic jazz classicist on par with Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. R&B innovator. Funkified jazzman. Soundtrack composer. Television host, even. At 20 he was doing session work for Blue Note Records by day and playing with trumpeter Donald Byrd by night. His 1963 debut album Takin Off featured the now-classic... read full bio