Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancockis an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor. Starting his career with Donald Byrd, he shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet where Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk music. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth12 April 1940
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I don't go back to anything, I just add. Just like when you eat a meal, it you eat one thing all the time it gets kind of boring.
Here was this young beautiful black woman that just kind of opened Miles' eyes up.
I agree with taking the time and respecting the great innovators of the past, but the word innovation would cease to exist if we all do is look at the past.
I actually own Final Cut Pro, which is software for editing video, and Premiere from Adobe, I have that.
He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.
He was a man of mystery, magic and mystique. It was often said he was an enigma. I would venture to say that many who said that just didn't get it.
He was a man of mystery, magic and mystique.
I always hope that as a performer I'm able to come out with something that not only makes people feel inspired but even beyond that, I always hope that what happens on the stage makes people feel like they can do it.
From '70 to '73 I'd had a sextet, but the band was not self-supporting and I couldn't afford it, so I broke it up. And then I didn't know what kind of music I wanted to do, because I was just fed up to here with it. It wasn't fulfilling anymore.
I brought my 40 years of jazz experience to the table, ... but I wanted to make something more ambitious than a little box.
I am still a jazz musician and not a pop star in terms of money and so I have to take care of my family first, then my extended family and my country.
This was put together not just as a series of notes and chords. If I depended on what anyone else thinks, I never would have stretched and discovered the various dimensions of myself.
We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at human beings first for a change, let's balance the thing out.
Tradition can be negative though, if the importance of having roots outweighs the importance of searching for what's valuable in new things being presented.