Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a
jazz pianist and
composer from Chicago, Illinois, United States. 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' "second great quintet" Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was later one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and
Jazz funk. Yet for all his restless experimentation, Hancock's music is often melodic…
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