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For the new album, Hancock assembled a new band, the Headhunters, of whom only woodwind player Bennie Maupin had been a member of the "Mwandishi" sextet. Hancock handled all synthesizer parts himself (having shared these duties with Patrick Gleeson on Crossings and Sextant) and he decided against the use of guitar altogether, favoring instead the clavinet, one of the defining sounds on the album.
The discography of the American jazz artist Herbie Hancock consists of forty-one studio albums, twelve live albums, sixty-two compilation albums, five soundtrack albums, thirty-eight physical singles, nine promo singles and four songs not released as singles, but that charted due to downloads. This article does not include re-issues, unless ...
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. [2] He started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. Hancock soon 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.
A key element in many of the super hit songs of that time period in Telugu and Tamil, was the Veena by Chitti Babu After having established himself as a Carnatic musician, Chitti Babu still had opportunity to associate himself with filmdom for a while. Some of his key works include:
John Eyles of BBC wrote "Ironically, in 2005 Hancock was elected to the Jazz Hall of Fame, since when the jazz aspects of his music have waned. Although The Imagine Project is entertaining and engaging, its jazz content is limited. Fans will hope that the 70-year-old still has another great jazz album in him – preferably alongside Shorter". [14]
Gershwin's World is a thirty-seventh studio album by the American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock. It contains songs written by George and Ira Gershwin , and their contemporaries. It features several prominent musicians, including Joni Mitchell , Kathleen Battle , Stevie Wonder , Wayne Shorter , Chick Corea , James Carter , Cyro Baptista , Kenny ...
Fat Albert Rotunda is the eighth album by jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock, released in 1969. It was Hancock's first release for Warner Bros. Records after his departure from Blue Note Records . The music was originally done for the TV special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert , which later inspired the Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids TV show.
Speak Like a Child, the sixth album by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, which was recorded and released by Blue Note Records in 1968, features Hancock's arrangements for an unusual front line of Jerry Dodgion on alto flute, Peter Phillips on bass trombone, and Thad Jones on flugelhorn.