Herbie Hancock backstage at The Grammys 1988
Hancock's best-known compositions include the jazz standards "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon", as well as the hit singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album to win the award, after Getz/Gilberto in 1965. Since 2012, Hancock has served as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He is also the chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz (known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz until 2019).
About Herbie Hancock
American jazz pianist, keyboardist, composer, band leader (born April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois, USA). Hancock is one of the best-known modern jazz composers, creator of “Watermelon Man” (which has been a reference point throughout his career), “Maiden Voyage”, “Dolphin Dance”, right through to the dance grooves of “[r=3173760]”. Learned the piano from the age of 6, performing piano concertos by [a95546] with the [a837562] aged 11. He came to wider attention via his work with trumpeter [a20...
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