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15 unusual facts about Herbie Hancock


Delta Air Lines Flight 191

The August 26, 1985 issue of Jet magazine (page 7) reported that Jean Hancock, sister of famed jazz musician Herbie Hancock, died aboard the flight as well.

Footprints Live!

# "Aung San Suu Kyi" - 9:28 - originally recorded for 1 + 1 with Herbie Hancock (1997)

Gaylord Birch

Gaylord G. Birch (March 10, 1946 – April 14, 1996) was a drummer for the bands Santana, Cold Blood, Pointer Sisters & Herbie Hancock.

Grant O. Gale

Gale was also the physics instructor for Grinnell music student Herbie Hancock.

International Jazz Day

The first annual International Jazz Day was kicked off in Paris by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock.

Jane Wattenberg

She has illustrated book jackets for Judy Blume (Places I Never Meant to Be), Ellen Wittlinger (Razzle), Virginia Euwer Wolfe (Make Lemonade), Rachel Cohn (Gingerbread) and Joan Bauer (Thwonk) among others and album covers for Herbie Hancock (Mr Hands), Daniel Lenz, and The Aqua Velvets.

Japanese new religions

Well-known American Soka Gakkai converts include musician Herbie Hancock and singer Tina Turner.

Kenneth Nash

Kenneth Nash is an American jazz percussionist who has worked extensively as a sideman for musicians including Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders and Norman Connors.

Kongsberg Jazzfestival

Several worldwide great artists have visited Kongsberg during this festival; international stars including Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Nigel Kennedy, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, McCoy Tyner, Radka Toneff, Bobby McFerrin, John Butcher, Anthony Braxton, Diana Krall and Pat Metheny have played in Kongsberg several times.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves

After fortifying himself with research and drugs, Lester Bangs meets Lou Reed in a hotel room, where they trade barbed personal insults, and argue about the current music scene, amphetamine formulae, and the background music which Lou has selected (Herbie Hancock).

Made in Africa Foundation

Made in Africa has previously linked with significant African American figures including Jamie Foxx, Chris Tucker, Mos Def, Isaiah Washington and Herbie Hancock to further advocate for this unity among African Americans.

Music of Benin

Loueke currently lives in New York and is a member of Herbie Hancock's band.

North Sea Jazz Festival

Artists that have performed at the Midsummer Jazz Gala include; Tony Bennett, Herbie Hancock and Oscar Peterson.

Panzerballett

The song Iron Maiden Voyage shows these diverse influences; the song's name is a pun on the name of the band metal band Iron Maiden and the Jazz Standard Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock).

Transport Tycoon

It features old-style blues and jazz tunes including parts of Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island.


Adam Sieff

Sieff has worked with many bands and artists including Wasted Youth, The Bad Plus, Herbie Hancock, Alexis Korner, Hugh Masekela, Big Country, Angelique Kidjo, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Denys Baptiste, Jazz Jamaica, Albert Collins, Keb' Mo', Spitting Image, Edoardo Bennato, Matumbi, Peter White and Clare Teal.

Adrián Carrio

He declared that his influences come from musicians like Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Debussy, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Michel Petrucciani, among others.

Arco Iris

But they also have worked alongside musicians such as Herbie Hancock, Lalo Schifrin and Chester Thompson, among others, as a supporting group.

Bakithi Kumalo

Bakithi Kumalo is a South African bassist, composer and vocalist who has worked with a wide variety of diverse artists including Gloria Estefan, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Harry Belafonte, Cyndi Lauper and Paul Simon.

Clarence Tex Walker

In Las Vegas, Walker appeared with the Drifters who worked in the same venues with Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and many major rock, blues and jazz artists including: The Rolling Stones; The Beatles; B.B. King; Aretha Franklin; Louis Armstrong; Count Basie; Herbie Hancock; Miles Davis; Ray Charles and Nat King Cole.

Darryl Jones

Jones has worked with jazz recording artists who include Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, Mike Stern, John Scofield, and Steps Ahead, as well as touring pop and rock artists Cher, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Madonna, Eric Clapton and Joan Armatrading.

David Em

His work has appeared in popular media, including the covers of Herbie Hancock's Future Shock, Sound-System, and Perfect Machine albums and an electronic version of William Gibson’s Neuromancer.

Eddie Gomez

His résumé includes performances with jazz giants such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Benny Goodman, Buck Clayton, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Bruford, Scott LaFaro, Marian McPartland, Paul Bley, Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, Steps Ahead, Steve Gadd, Ron Carter, Jeremy Steig, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Al Foster, Chick Corea, Eugenio Toussaint and Carli Muñoz.

Fazioli

A number of greatest jazz artists have learned to love Fazioli pianos: Herbie Hancock, Matthew Shipp, Martial Solal, Brad Mehldau, Chucho Valdez and Michel Camilo.

Gary Burton

Burton has played with a wide variety of jazz musicians, including Carla Bley, Hank Garland, Gato Barbieri, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Steve Lacy, Pat Metheny, Makoto Ozone, Tiger Okoshi, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, B.B. King, Tommy Smith, Eberhard Weber, Ralph Towner, Peter Erskine, Stephane Grappelli and Ástor Piazzolla.

Givin' It Up

Other noteworthy vocalists and musicians featured are Jill Scott, Patti Austin, Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, Abe Laboriel, Chris Botti, Marcus Miller, and Beatles Legend Paul McCartney.

Hey, Man, Smell My Finger

The album features an array of musical guests including Prince, Dallas Austin, Humpty Hump from Digital Underground, Ice Cube, N'Dea Davenport, Dr. Dre, and Herbie Hancock, as well P-Funk alumni including Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Maceo Parker, and Fred Wesley.

IME, New York City

Creator Ron Durbin was asked by local NARAS Vice President, John Marcus (Grammy Awards) to attend and speak at the digital download conference in 1993 and participated in the conference with Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock and many more artists savvy with digital age vision.

Jason Goldman

In 1999, Goldman was selected by jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter to be a member of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz where he toured the world and performed with a who’s who list of jazz icons (Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Roy Haynes, Kenny Barron, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Watson, to name a few).

Laurie Z

Laurie Z. toured extensively and opened for instrumentalists like Herbie Hancock, Leo Kottke and Tim Weisburg and she performed at major clubs Troubadour and Roxy.

Liel Kolet

Liel has performed with artists such as jazz musician Herbie Hancock, Andrea Bocelli, Patti LaBelle, guitarist Slash, and others.

Moers Festival

Many famous musicians have appeared there, including Fred Frith, David Murray, Cecil Taylor, Lester Bowie, Herbie Hancock, Abdullah Ibrahim, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and Jan Garbarek.

Pierce Freelon

He has performed internationally with jazz artists Nnenna Freelon (his mother), Herbie Hancock, Bob James, Earl Klugh, Patti Austin, Robert Glasper, Chris Dave and Derrick Hodge.

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Trucks and Tedeschi appeared together on Herbie Hancock's album, The Imagine Project, performing the track "Space Captain" with additional members of Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band, including Oteil Burbridge, Kofi Burbridge, and Mike Mattison.

The Standard Sonny Rollins

The Standard Sonny Rollins is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, his last recorded for the RCA Victor label, featuring performances by Rollins with Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, David Izenzon, Teddy Smith, Stu Martin, Bob Cranshaw and Mickey Roker.

Tim Carmon

The roster of musicians with whom Carmon has performed, toured, written, or produced is lengthy: Eric Clapton, Babyface, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Queen Latifah, Marcus Miller, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Gladys Knight, B.B. King, Jamie Foxx, Earth Wind and Fire, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Michael McDonald, Mary J. Blige, David Sanborn and more.

Trần Mạnh Tuấn

At various occasions, Trần Mạnh Tuấn has perform with a number of well known musicians such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Derek Nash, Lillian Boutte, Charlie Bisharat, Dave Grusin, Don Grusin, Hans Dulfer, Fulvio Albano, Rob Mullins, Mike Del Frerro, John Ferguson, Stephan Echer, Co Co York, Jennifer Ryan, Mezcal Jazz Unit, Dana Leong, Denis Mininfield.

Victor Moscoso

Moscoso's comix and poster work has continued up to the present and includes album covers for musicians such as Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Herbie Hancock, Jed Davis and David Grisman.

William Edward Childs

While influenced early on in his playing by Herbie Hancock, Keith Emerson, and Chick Corea and in his composing by Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel, and Igor Stravinsky, Childs nevertheless had an original conception of his own from near the start, developing his own voice as both a pianist and a composer in jazz and classical music genres.

Ziggy Modeliste

In 2006, he released the single "Let's Get Fired Up" described as "A Fight Song for Our Saints." In 2007, he participated in Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, contributing his version of Domino's "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday", with Herbie Hancock and Renard Poche.