Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an Academy Award and multiple Grammy Award winning jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, USA. 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's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. Later, he was one
of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Yet for all his restless experimentalism, Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieve success among pop audiences. In this concert he has invited Michael Brecker- tenor Saxophone player-performing his best- ala John Coltrane. Along with him are Rey Hargrove, George Mraz and Willie Jones at Theater Antique de Vienne on July 8, 2002. 1 hour of mainstream jazz.
As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. Later, he was one
of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Yet for all his restless experimentalism, Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieve success among pop audiences. In this concert he has invited Michael Brecker- tenor Saxophone player-performing his best- ala John Coltrane. Along with him are Rey Hargrove, George Mraz and Willie Jones at Theater Antique de Vienne on July 8, 2002. 1 hour of mainstream jazz.
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