A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music.

Most bandleaders are also performers with their own band. The bandleader role is dependent on a variety of skills, not just musicianship. A bandleader needs to be a music director and performer. Often the bands are named after their bandleaders. Some older bands have continued operating under their bandleaders' names long after the death of the original bandleader.

Noted American bandleaders and their instruments

Harold B. Bachman

Count Basie - piano

Herman Bellstedt - cornet

Terence Blanchard - trumpet

Will Bradley - trombone

Les Brown - saxophone

James Brown - singer

Dave Brubeck - piano

Cab Calloway - singer

Dave Clark - drums

Herbert L. Clarke - cornet

George Clinton - keyboard, vocals

John Coltrane - saxophone

Patrick “Patsy” Conway - cornet

Miles Davis - trumpet

Jimmy Dorsey - saxophone

Tommy Dorsey - trombone

Duke Ellington - piano

Edwin Franko Goldman

Buddy Guy - guitar, singer

Benny Goodman - clarinet

Lionel Hampton - vibraphone, percussion

Bill Haley - guitar, singer

Albert Austin Harding

Emmylou Harris - guitar, singer

Isaac Hayes - singer

Jimi Hendrix - guitar, singer

Woody Herman - clarinet

Buddy Holly - guitar, singer

Elmore James - guitar, singer

BB King - guitar, singer

Michael League - bass

Jimmie Lunceford - saxophone

Pat Metheny - guitar

Glenn Miller - trombone

Charles Mingus - bass

Rickey Minor - bass

Dave Mustaine - guitar, singer

Mike Ness - guitar, singer-songwriter

Buck Owens - guitar

Jimmy Palao - Violin, Cornet

Gloria Parker - Marimba

George Paxton - tenor saxophone

Tom Petty - singer, guitar

Mike Portnoy - drums

Arthur Pryor - trombone

Buddy Rich - drum kit

Little Richard - piano, singer

Omar Rodríguez-López - guitar, vocals

B.A. Rolfe - trumpet

Jon Schaffer - guitar, vocals

Paul Shaffer - keyboards

Artie Shaw - clarinet

Lew Soloff - Trumpet, Flugelhorn

John Philip Sousa - wind instruments

Bruce Springsteen - guitar, singer

Lew Tabackin - tenor saxophone, flute

Gary Tole - trombone

Derek Trucks - guitar

Ernest Tubb - singer-songwriter

Tommy Tucker - piano

Ike Turner - guitar, piano

Rebekah Vangorde - flute

Muddy Waters - guitar, singer

Max Weinberg - drums

Lawrence Welk - accordion

Barry White - singer

Jack White - guitar, singer, drums

Maurice White - percussion

Paul Whiteman - violin

Anna Mae Winburn - singer

Frank Zappa - guitar, singer

Jerry Garcia - guitar, singer

Axl Rose - singer, piano

British bandleaders

Bert Ambrose

Ian Anderson - flute, guitar, singer

Gary Barlow - singer

Jeff Beck - guitar

Ian Gillan - singer

Acker Bilk - clarinet

John Barry

Ritchie Blackmore - guitar

David Bowie - saxophone, guitar, singer

Gerald Bright - (Geraldo)

Elvis Costello - guitar, singer

Billy Cotton

Stewart Copeland - drummer

David Coverdale - singer

Alex Harvey - singer

Ted Heath - trombone

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland - piano

Spike Hughes

Steve Harris - bass guitar

Jack Hylton

Yusuf Islam - guitar, singer

Max Jaffa - violin

Elton John - piano, singer

Cab Kaye - drums, guitar, piano, singer

Mark Knopfler - guitar, singer

Geoff Love

Joe Loss

Humphrey Lyttelton - trumpet

John McLaughlin (musician) - guitar

Michael Nyman - piano

Simon Park

Jimmy Page - guitar

Jack Payne

Johnny Pearson

Rod Stewart - singer

Les Reed

Italian bandleaders

Pippo Barzizza

Renato Carosone - piano

Gorni Kramer

Mantovani

Swedish bandleaders

Yngwie J. Malmsteen - guitar

Helmut Jederknüller - drums

Mikael Åkerfeldt - guitar, singer

Dutch bandleaders

Michiel Borstlap

Michiel Braam

Willem Breuker - trumpet

Jack Coenen - trombone, leading the Jack Million Band specialized in the music of Glenn Miller

Tonny Eijk

Pim Jacobs

Erik van der Luijt

Malando - violin

Rogier van Otterloo

André Rieu - violin

Cees Schrama - keyboards

Joop Stokkermans - piano

Lajos Veres - multi-instrumentalist, mostly violin

German bandleaders

Peter Herbolzheimer

Bert Kaempfert

Uli Jon Roth - guitar

Michael Schenker - guitar

James Last - double bass

Max Raabe - singer

Muhammed Suiçmez - guitarist, vocalist

Tobias Sammet - vocalist, bass

Rudolf Schenker - guitar

Michael Weikath - guitar

French bandleaders

Raymond Lefevre

Paul Mauriat

Franck Pourcel

Belgian bandleaders

Francis Bay

Jack Coenen - trombone, leading the Jack Million Band specialized in the music of Glenn Miller

Argentine bandleaders

Waldo de los Rios

Ricardo Iorio

Japanese bandleaders

Tak Matsumoto - guitar

Keisuke Kuwata - guitar, multi-instrumentalist

Toshiko Akiyoshi - piano

Michiro Endo - vocals

Yoshiki - drums, piano

J - bass

Tetsuya - bass

Sakura - drums

Tetsu Takano - vocals, guitar

Kaoru - guitar

Australian bandleaders

Stuart Lang - cornet

Mark "Slim" Roberts - cornet, trumpet

See also

Bandmaster

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Name	Herbie Hancock
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Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
Alias	Herbie Hancock
Birth date	April 12, 1940
Birth place	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Instrument	Piano, synthesizer, organ, clavinet, keytar, vocoder
Genre	Jazz, bebop, post bop, jazz fusion, hard bop, jazz-funk, funk, R&B;, electro funk, classical
Occupation	Musician, composer, bandleader
Years active	1961–present
Label	Columbia, Blue Note, Verve, Warner Bros.
Associated acts	Miles Davis Quintet, Jaco Pastorius, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder
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Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (b. April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, 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 music synthesizers and funk music (characterized by syncopated drum beats). Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the 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 ever to win the award after ''Getz/Gilberto'' in 1965.

Hancock is a member of Sōka Gakkai International.

On July 22, 2011 at a ceremony in Paris, Hancock was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Intercultural Dialogue.

Early life and career

Hancock was born in Chicago, Illinois. Like many jazz pianists, Hancock started with a classical music education. He studied from age seven, and his talent was recognized early. Considered a child prodigy, he played the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 5 at a young people's concert with the Chicago Symphony at age eleven.

Through his teens, Hancock never had a jazz teacher, but developed his ear and sense of harmony. He was also influenced by records of the vocal group the Hi-Lo's. He reported that:

the time I actually heard the Hi-Lo's, I started picking that stuff out; my ear was happening. I could hear stuff and that's when I really learned some much farther-out voicings -like the harmonies I used on 'Speak Like a Child' -just being able to do that. I really got that from Clare Fischer's arrangements for the Hi-Lo's. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept... He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it came from.

In 1960, he heard Chris Anderson play just once, and begged him to accept him as a student. Hancock often mentions Anderson as his harmonic guru. Hancock left Grinnell College, moved to Chicago and began working with Donald Byrd and Coleman Hawkins, during which period he also took courses at Roosevelt University. (He later graduated from Grinnell with degrees in electrical engineering and music. Grinnell also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1972). Donald Byrd was attending the Manhattan School of Music in New York at the time and suggested that Hancock study composition with Vittorio Giannini, which he did for a short time in 1960. The pianist quickly earned a reputation, and played subsequent sessions with Oliver Nelson and Phil Woods. He recorded his first solo album ''Takin' Off'' for Blue Note Records in 1962. "Watermelon Man" (from ''Takin' Off'') was to provide Mongo Santamaría with a hit single, but more importantly for Hancock, ''Takin' Off'' caught the attention of Miles Davis, who was at that time assembling a new band. Hancock was introduced to Davis by the young drummer Tony Williams, a member of the new band.

Miles Davis quintet and Blue Note

Hancock received considerable attention when, in May 1963, he joined Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet. This new band was essentially Miles Davis surrounded by fresh, new talent. Davis personally sought out Hancock, whom he saw as one of the most promising talents in jazz. The rhythm section Davis organized was young but effective, comprising bassist Ron Carter, 17-year-old drummer Tony Williams, and Hancock on piano. After George Coleman and Sam Rivers each took a turn at the saxophone spot, the quintet would gel with Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone. This quintet is often regarded as one of the finest jazz ensembles, and the rhythm section has been especially praised for its innovation and flexibility.

The second great quintet was where Hancock found his own voice as a pianist. Not only did he find new ways to use common chords, but he also popularized chords that had not previously been used in jazz. Hancock also developed a unique taste for "orchestral" accompaniment – using quartal harmony and Debussy-like harmonies, with stark contrasts then unheard of in jazz. With Williams and Carter he wove a labyrinth of rhythmic intricacy on, around and over existing melodic and chordal schemes. In the later half of the sixties their approach became so sophisticated and unorthodox that conventional chord changes would hardly be discernible; hence their improvisational concept would become known as "Time, No Changes".

While in Davis's band, Hancock also found time to record dozens of sessions for the Blue Note label, both under his own name and as a sideman with other musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Grant Green, Bobby Hutcherson, Sam Rivers, Donald Byrd, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard.

His albums ''Empyrean Isles'' (1964) and ''Maiden Voyage'' (1965) were to be two of the most famous and influential jazz LPs of the sixties, winning praise for both their innovation and accessibility (the latter demonstrated by the subsequent enormous popularity of the ''Maiden Voyage'' title track as a jazz standard, and by the jazz rap group US3 having a hit single with "Cantaloop" (derived from "Cantaloupe Island" on ''Empyrean Isles'') some twenty five years later). ''Empyrean Isles'' featured the Davis rhythm section of Hancock, Carter and Williams with the addition of Freddie Hubbard on cornet, while ''Maiden Voyage'' also added former Davis saxophonist George Coleman (with Hubbard remaining on trumpet). Both albums are regarded as among the principal foundations of the post-bop style. Hancock also recorded several less-well-known but still critically acclaimed albums with larger ensembles – ''My Point of View'' (1963), ''Speak Like a Child'' (1968) and ''The Prisoner'' (1969) featured flugelhorn, alto flute and bass trombone. 1963's ''Inventions and Dimensions'' was an album of almost entirely improvised music, teaming Hancock with bassist Paul Chambers and two Latin percussionists, Willie Bobo and Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez.

During this period, Hancock also composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni's film ''Blowup'', the first of many soundtracks he recorded in his career.

Davis had begun incorporating elements of rock and popular music into his recordings by the end of Hancock's tenure with the band. Despite some initial reluctance, Hancock began doubling on electric keyboards including the Fender Rhodes electric piano at Davis's insistence. Hancock adapted quickly to the new instruments, which proved to be instrumental in his future artistic endeavors.

Under the pretext that he had returned late from a honeymoon in Brazil, Hancock was dismissed from Davis's band. In the summer of 1968 Hancock formed his own sextet. However, although Davis soon disbanded his quintet to search for a new sound, Hancock, despite his departure from the working band, continued to appear on Miles Davis records for the next few years. Noteworthy appearances include ''In a Silent Way'', ''A Tribute to Jack Johnson'' and ''On the Corner''.

''Fat Albert'' and ''Mwandishi''

Hancock left Blue Note in 1969, signing up with Warner Bros. Records. In 1969, Hancock composed the soundtrack for the Bill Cosby animated children's television show ''Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids''. Titled ''Fat Albert Rotunda'', the album was mainly an R&B;-influenced album with strong jazz overtones. One of the jazzier songs on the record, "Tell Me A Bedtime Story", was later re-worked as a more electronic sounding song for the Quincy Jones album, ''Sounds...and Stuff Like That''.

Hancock became fascinated with accumulating musical gadgets and toys. Together with the profound influence of Davis's ''Bitches Brew'', this fascination would culminate in a series of albums in which electronic instruments are coupled with acoustic instruments.

Hancock's first ventures into electronic music started with a sextet comprising Hancock, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Billy Hart, and a trio of horn players: Eddie Henderson (trumpet), Julian Priester (trombone), and multireedist Bennie Maupin. Dr. Patrick Gleeson was eventually added to the mix to play and program the synthesizers. In fact, Hancock was one of the first jazz pianists to completely embrace electronic keyboards.

The sextet, later a septet with the addition of Gleeson, made three experimental albums under Hancock's name: ''Mwandishi'' (1971), ''Crossings'' (1972) (both on Warner Bros. Records), and ''Sextant'' (1973) (released on Columbia Records); two more, '' Realization'' and ''Inside Out'', were recorded under Henderson's name with essentially the same personnel. The music often had very free improvisations and showed influence from the electronic music of some contemporary classical composers.

Synthesizer player Patrick Gleeson, one of the first musicians to play synthesizer on any jazz recording, introduced the instrument on ''Crossings'', released in 1972, one of a handful of influential electronic jazz/fusion recordings to feature synthesizer that same year. On ''Crossings'' (as well as on ''I Sing the Body Electric''), the synthesizer is used more as an improvisatory global orchestration device than as a strictly melodic instrument. This reflected Gleeson's (and Powell's) interest in contemporary European electronic music techniques and in the West Coast synthesis techniques of Morton Subotnick and other contemporaries, several of whom were resident at one time or another, as was Gleeson, at The Mills College Tape Music Center. An early review of ''Crossings'' in ''Downbeat magazine'' complained about the synthesizer, but a few years later the magazine noted in a cover story on Gleeson that he was "a pioneer" in the field of electronics in jazz. Gleeson used a modular Moog III for the recording of the album, but used an ARP 2600 synthesizer, and occasionally an ARP Soloist for the group's live performances. On ''Sextant'' Gleeson used the more compact ARP synthesizers instead of the larger Moog III for both studio and live performances. In the albums following ''The Crossings'', Hancock started to play synth himself and unlike Gleeson, he plays it as a melodical and rhythm instrument just like electric pianos.

Hancock's three records released in 1971–1973, became later known as the "Mwandishi" albums, so-called after a Swahili name Hancock sometimes used during this era (''Mwandishi'' is Swahili for ''writer''). The first two, including ''Fat Albert Rotunda'' were made available on the 2-CD set ''Mwandishi: the Complete Warner Bros. Recordings'', released in 1994, but are now sold as individual CD editions. Of the three electronic albums, ''Sextant'' is probably the most experimental since the Arp synthesizers are used extensively, and some advanced improvisation ("post-modal free impressionism") is found on the tracks "Hornets" and "Hidden Shadows" (which is in the meter 19/4). "Hornets" was later revised on the 2001 album ''Future2Future'' as "Virtual Hornets".

Among the instruments Hancock and Gleeson used were Fender Rhodes piano, ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, ARP Pro Soloist Synthesizer, a Mellotron and the Moog synthesizer III.

All three Warner Bros. albums ''Fat Albert Rotunda'', ''Mwandishi'', and ''Crossings'', were remastered in 2001 and released in Europe but were not released in the U.S.A. as of June 2005. In the Winter of 2006–7 a remastered edition of ''Crossings'' was announced and scheduled for release in the Spring.

''Headhunters'' and ''Death Wish''

After the sometimes "airy" and decidedly experimental "Mwandishi" albums, Hancock was eager to perform more "earthy" and "funky" music. The ''Mwandishi'' albums – though these days seen as respected early fusion recordings – had seen mixed reviews and poor sales, so it is probable that Hancock was motivated by financial concerns as well as artistic restlessness. Hancock was also bothered by the fact that many people did not understand avant-garde music. He explained that he loved funk music, especially Sly Stone's music, so he wanted to try to make funk himself.

He gathered a new band, which he called The Headhunters, keeping only Maupin from the sextet and adding bassist Paul Jackson, percussionist Bill Summers, and drummer Harvey Mason. The album ''Head Hunters'', released in 1973, was a major hit and crossed over to pop audiences, though it prompted criticism from some jazz fans. ''Head Hunters'' was recorded at Different Fur studios.

Despite charges of "selling out", Stephen Erlewine of ''Allmusic'' positively reviewed the album among other friendly critics, saying, "''Head Hunters'' still sounds fresh and vital three decades after its initial release, and its genre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul, and hip-hop."

Mason was replaced by Mike Clark, and the band released a second album, ''Thrust'', the following year. (A live album from a Japan performance, consisting of compositions from those first two ''Head Hunters'' releases was released in 1975 as ''Flood''. The record has since been released on CD in Japan.) This was almost as well received as its predecessor, if not attaining the same level of commercial success. The Headhunters made another successful album (called ''Survival of the Fittest'') without Hancock, while Hancock himself started to make even more commercial albums, often featuring members of the band, but no longer billed as The Headhunters. The Headhunters reunited with Hancock in 1998 for ''Return of the Headhunters'', and a version of the band (featuring Jackson and Clark) continues to play live and record.

In 1973, Hancock composed his second masterful soundtrack to the controversial film ''The Spook Who Sat By The Door''. Then in 1974, he also composed the soundtrack to the first ''Death Wish'' film. One of his memorable songs, "Joanna's Theme", would later be re-recorded in 1997 on his duet album with Wayne Shorter ''1 + 1''.

Hancock's next jazz-funk albums of the 1970s were ''Man-Child'' (1975), and ''Secrets'' (1976), which point toward the more commercial direction Hancock would take over the next decade. These albums feature the members of the 'Headhunters' band, but also a variety of other musicians in important roles.

Back to the basics: ''VSOP'' and ''Future Shock''

During late 1970s and early 1980s, Hancock toured with his "V.S.O.P." quintet, which featured all the members of the 1960s Miles Davis quintet except Davis, who was replaced by trumpet giant Freddie Hubbard. There was constant speculation that one day Davis would reunite with his classic band, but he never did so. VSOP recorded several live albums in the late 1970s, including ''VSOP'' (1976), and ''VSOP: The Quintet'' (1977).

In 1978, Hancock recorded a duet with Chick Corea, who had replaced him in the Miles Davis band a decade earlier. He also released a solo acoustic piano album titled ''The Piano'' (1978), which, like so many Hancock albums at the time, was initially released only in Japan. (It was finally released in the US in 2004.) Several other Japan-only releases have yet to surface in the US, such as ''Dedication'' (1974), ''VSOP: Tempest in the Colosseum'' (1977), and ''Direct Step'' (1978). ''Live Under the Sky'' was a VSOP album remastered for the US in 2004, and included an entire second concert from the July 1979 tour.

From 1978–1982, Hancock recorded many albums consisting of jazz-inflected disco and pop music, beginning with ''Sunlight'' (featuring guest musicians including Tony Williams and Jaco Pastorius on the last track) (1978). Singing through a vocoder, he earned a British hit, "I Thought It Was You", although critics were unimpressed. This led to more vocoder on the 1979 follow-up, ''Feets, Don't Fail Me Now'', which gave him another UK hit in "You Bet Your Love". The video won five different categories at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards. This single ushered in a collaboration with noted bassist and producer Bill Laswell. Hancock experimented with electronic music on a string of three LPs produced by Laswell: ''Future Shock'' (1983), ''Sound-System'' (1984) and ''Perfect Machine'' (1988). Despite the success of "Rockit", Hancock's trio of Laswell-produced albums (particularly the latter two) are among the most critically derided of his entire career, perhaps even more so than his erstwhile pop-jazz experiments. Hancock's level of actual contribution to these albums was also questioned, with some critics contending that the Laswell albums should have been labelled "Bill Laswell featuring Herbie Hancock".

During this period, he appeared onstage at the Grammy awards with Stevie Wonder, Howard Jones, and Thomas Dolby, in a famous synthesizer jam (The video on Youtube can be found here.). Lesser known works from the 1980s are the live album ''Jazz Africa'' and the studio album ''Village Life'' (1984), which were recorded with Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso. Also, in 1985 Hancock performed as a guest on the album ''So Red The Rose'' by the Duran Duran offshoot group Arcadia. He also provided introductory and closing comments for the PBS rebroadcast in the United States of the BBC educational series from the mid-1980s, ''Rockschool'' (not to be confused with the most recent ''Gene Simmons' Rock School'' series).

In 1986, Hancock performed and acted in the film '''Round Midnight''. He also wrote the score/soundtrack, for which he won an Academy Award for Original Music Score. Often he would write music for TV commercials. "Maiden Voyage", in fact, started out as a cologne advertisement. At the end of the ''Perfect Machine'' tour, Hancock decided to leave Columbia Records after a 15-plus-year relationship.

As of June 2005, almost half of his Columbia recordings have been remastered. The first three US releases, ''Sextant'', ''Head Hunters'' and ''Thrust'' as well as the last four releases ''Future Shock'', ''Sound-System'', the soundtrack to ''Round Midnight'' and ''Perfect Machine''. Everything released in America from ''Man-Child'' to ''Quartet'' has yet to be remastered. Some albums, made and initially released in the US, were remastered between 1999 and 2001 in other countries such as ''Magic Windows'' and ''Monster''. Hancock also re-released some of his Japan-only releases in the West, such as ''The Piano.''

1990s and later

After leaving Columbia, Hancock took a break. Then, with friends Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, and Davis admirer Wallace Roney, they recorded ''A Tribute to Miles'', which was released in 1994. The album contained two live recordings and studio recording classics, with Roney playing Davis's part as trumpet player. The album won a Grammy for best group album. He also toured with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and Pat Metheny in 1990 on their ''Parallel Realities'' tour, which included a memorable performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1990.

Hancock's next album, ''Dis Is Da Drum'', released in 1994, saw him return to Acid Jazz. Also in 1994, he appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album ''Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool''. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African-American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by ''Time Magazine''.

1995's ''The New Standard'' found Hancock and an all-star band including John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette and Michael Brecker interpreting pop songs by Nirvana, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Prince, Peter Gabriel and others. A 1997 duet album with Wayne Shorter entitled ''1 + 1'' was successful, the song "Aung San Suu Kyi" winning the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. Hancock also achieved great success in 1998 with his album ''Gershwin's World'', which featured inventive readings of George and Ira Gershwin standards by Hancock and a plethora of guest stars, including Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Shorter. Hancock toured the world in the support of ''Gershwin's World'' with a sextet that featured Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ira Coleman, Eli Degibri and Eddie Henderson.

In 2001, Hancock recorded ''Future2Future'', which reunited Hancock with Bill Laswell and featured doses of electronica as well as turntablist Rob Swift of The X-Ecutioners. Hancock later toured with the band, and released a live concert DVD with a different lineup which also included the "Rockit" music video. Also in 2001, Hancock partnered with Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove to record a live concert album saluting Davis and John Coltrane entitled ''Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall'', recorded live in Toronto. The threesome toured to support the album, and toured on and off through 2005.

The year 2005 saw the release of a duet album called ''Possibilities''. It features duets with Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Sting and others. In 2006, ''Possibilities'' was nominated for Grammy awards in two categories: "A Song For You", featuring Christina Aguilera was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, and "Gelo No Montanha", featuring Trey Anastasio on guitar, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance. Neither nomination resulted in an award.

Also in 2005, Hancock toured Europe with a new quartet that included Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke, and explored textures ranging from ambient to straight jazz to African music. Plus, during the summer of 2005, Hancock re-staffed the famous Headhunters and went on tour with them, including a performance at The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.

However, this lineup did not consist of any of the original Headhunters musicians. The group included Marcus Miller, Terri Lyne Carrington, Lionel Loueke and John Mayer. Hancock also served as the first artist in residence for Bonnaroo that summer.

Also in 2006, Sony BMG Music Entertainment (which bought out Hancock's old label, Columbia Records) released the two-disc retrospective ''The Essential Herbie Hancock''. This two-disc set is the first compilation of Herbie's work at Warner Bros. Records, Blue Note Records, Columbia and at Verve/Polygram. This became Hancock's second major compilation of work since the 2002 Columbia-only''The Herbie Hancock Box'', which was released at first in a plastic 4x4 cube then re-released in 2004 in a long box set. Hancock also in 2006, recorded a new song with Josh Groban and Eric Mouquet (co-founder of Deep Forest) entitled "Machine". It is featured on Josh Groban's CD ''Awake''. Hancock also recorded and improvised with guitarist Lionel Loueke on Loueke's debut album ''Virgin Forest'' on the ObliqSound label in 2006, resulting in two improvisational tracks "Le Réveil des Agneaux (The Awakening of the Lambs)" and "La Poursuite du lion (The Lion's Pursuit)".

Hancock, a longtime associate and friend of Joni Mitchell released a 2007 album, ''River: The Joni Letters'', that paid tribute to her work. Norah Jones and Tina Turner recorded vocals, as did Corinne Bailey Rae, and Leonard Cohen contributed a spoken piece set to Hancock's piano. Mitchell herself also made an appearance. The album was released on September 25, simultaneously with the release of Mitchell's album ''Shine''. "River" was nominated for and won the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy Award, only the second jazz album ever to receive either honor. The album also won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, and the song "Both Sides Now" was nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Solo.

Recently Hancock performed at the Shriner's Children's Hospital Charity Fundraiser with Sheila E, Jim Brickman, Kirk Whalum and Wendy Alane Wright.

His latest work includes assisting the production of the Kanye West track "RoboCop", found on 808s & Heartbreak.

On June 14, 2008, Hancock performed at Rhythm on the Vine at the South Coast Winery in Temecula, California, for Shriners Hospital for Children. Other performers at the event, that raised $515,000 for Shriners Hospital, were contemporary music artist Jim Brickman, and Sheila E. & the E. Family Band.

On January 18, 2009, Hancock performed at the We Are One concert, marking the start of inaugural celebrations for American President Barack Obama. Hancock also performed the Rhapsody in Blue at the 2009 Classical BRIT Awards with classical pianist Lang Lang. Hancock was named as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair for jazz for 2010–12. In June 2010, Hancock released his newest album, ''The Imagine Project''.

On June 5, 2010, Hancock received an Alumni Award from his alma mater, Grinnell College.

Discography

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Filmography

As a Leader

2000: ''Dejohnette, Hancock, Holland and Metheny – Live in Concert''

2002: ''Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!'' with Ron Carter and Billy Cobham

2002: ''The Jazz Channel Presents Herbie Hancock (BET on Jazz)'' with Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ira Coleman, Eli Degibri and Eddie Henderson (recorded in 2000)

2004: ''Herbie Hancock – Future2Future Live''

2006: ''Herbie Hancock – Possibilities'' with John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Joss Stone, and more

Awards

Academy Awards

1986, Original Soundtrack, for ''Round Midnight''

Grammy Awards

# 1984, Best R&B; Instrumental Performance, for ''Rockit'' # 1985, Best R&B; Instrumental Performance, for ''Sound-System'' # 1988, Best Instrumental Composition, for ''Call Sheet Blues'' # 1995, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group, for ''A Tribute to Miles'' # 1997, Best Instrumental Composition, for ''Manhattan (Island Of Lights And Love)'' # 1999, Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s), for ''St. Louis Blues'' # 1999, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group, for ''Gershwin's World'' # 2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, for ''Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall'' # 2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for ''My Ship'' # 2005, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for ''Speak Like a Child'' # 2008, Album of the Year, for ''River: The Joni Letters'' # 2008, Best Contemporary Jazz Album, for ''River: The Joni Letters'' # 2011, Best Improvised Jazz Solo, for ''A Change Is Gonna Come'' # 2011, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, for ''Imagine''

Playboy Music Poll

Best Jazz Group, 1985

Best Jazz Keyboards, 1985

Best Jazz Album – ''Rockit'', 1985

Best Jazz Keyboards, 1986

Best R&B; Instrumentalist, 1987

Best Jazz Instrumentalist, 1988

Keyboard Magazine's Readers Poll

Best Jazz & Pop Keyboardist, 1983

Best Jazz Pianist, 1987

Best Jazz Keyboardist, 1987

Best Jazz Pianist, 1988

Other notable awards

MTV Awards (5 awards in total) – Best Concept Video – ''Rockit'', 1983–84

Gold Note Jazz Awards – NY Chapter of the National Black MBA Association, 1985

French Award Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters - Paris, 1985

BMI Film Music Award ''Round Midnight'', 1986

U.S. Radio Award "Best Original Music Scoring – ''Thom McAnn Shoes''", 1986

Los Angeles Film Critics Association "Best Score – ''Round Midnight''", 1986

BMI Film Music Award ''Colors'', 1989

Miles Davis Award, granted by the Montreal International Jazz Festival, 1997

Soul Train Music Award "Best Jazz Album – ''The New Standard''", 1997

Festival International Jazz de Montreal Prix Miles Davis, 1997

VH1's 100 Greatest Videos ''Rockit'' is "10th Greatest Video", 2001

NEA Jazz Masters Award, 2004

''Downbeat Magazine'' Readers Poll Hall of Fame, 2005

References

External links

Official website of Herbie Hancock

Official Herbie Hancock MySpace page

Herbie Hancock at Verve Records

River:The Joni Letters at Verve Records

Possibilities Herbie Hancock

Discography Herbie Hancock Discography

Interview with Herbie Hancock on music and technology from AppleMatters

Interview with Herbie Hancock on the "Possibilities" album release from LiveDaily

Herbie Hancock: Outside The Comfort Zone Herbie Hancock interview from JamBase

"Herbie Hancock: Essential Recordings" by Ted Gioia (www.jazz.com)

Herbie Hancock's Grinnell College Alumni Award citation from Grinnell College Alumni Assembly on June 5, 2010.

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John Russell Parnell (6 August 1923 – 8 August 2010) was an English bandleader and musician.

Biography

Parnell was born into a theatrical family in London.

During the 1940s and 1950s, he was voted best drummer in the ''Melody Maker'' poll for seven years in succession. He composed many television themes, including ''The Golden Shot'', ''Family Fortunes'' and ''Love Story'' (for which he won the Harriet Cohen Award). He was also the musical director for ''The Benny Hill Show''.

He was also a frequent judge on the British talent show, ''New Faces''.

He was appointed musical director for ATV in 1956, a post he held until 1981, and served as the 'real' conductor for ''The Muppet Show'' orchestra for the entire series.

He was jailed for three months for a drink-driving accident in 1979, hitting a motorcyclist who lost a leg. After this he moved from Surrey in disgrace and shortly after his wife divorced him.

In the 1970s he had formed the group The Best of British Jazz with Don Lusher, Kenny Baker, Tony Lee, Betty Smith and Tony Archer, which performed until 1985. The group was active from 1985 to December 1999, releasing two CDs: ''The Best of British Vol 1'' (CDSIV 6146) and ''The Best of British Jazz Live'' (MER 99100CD).

Jack Parnell had three sons (including Ric Parnell who, among many other credits, played drummer Mick Shrimpton in the movie ''This Is Spinal Tap'').

Parnell died in Southwold, from the effects of cancer on 8 August 2010, at the age of 87.

References

External links

"Jack Parnell – master of many trades" article by Louis Barfe at Sounds On.

The Jack Parnell Orchestra big band line-ups from 1951 to 1958 at jazzprofessional.com.

Jack Parnell's entry in the Muppet Wiki

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birth date	December 24, 1943
Birth place	Darmstadt Germany
death date	June 14, 2003
instrument	Vocals, guitar
genre	Jazz rock, Jazz
occupation	Musician, songwriter, cartoonist, radio broadcaster, Music director, Author
years active	1963 - 2003
label	Mood Records
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Volker Kriegel (24 December 1943–14 June 2003) was a German jazz guitarist and composer born in Darmstadt, Germany, perhaps most noteworthy for his contributions to the European jazz rock genre and for his collaborations with the American vibraphonist Dave Pike. In 1975 he was a founding member of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble.

Biography

A self-taught guitarist, Kriegel began playing when he was fifteen and formed a trio three years later that won an award at a 1963 amateur jazz festival. In 1973 he founded Spectrum, a quartet that included Eberhard Weber, among others. In 1975 Kriegel spent a month teaching for the Goethe Institute, an organization he worked for at various points throughout his career. In 1976 Spectrum broke up, and Kriegel started another band called the Mild Maniac Orchestra which stayed together in to the 1980s.

In 1977 Kriegel became the partial owner of a label called Mood Records. He also performed as a sideman for various musicians, including Klaus Doldinger. In addition to music, Kriegel was also a cartoonist who appeared in several German newspapers, a radio broadcaster, and a director of films and author of books related to music.

Discography

As leader

''With a little help from my friends'' (1968, Liberty 83065) (u.a. mit Peter Trunk, Günter Lenz, Peter Baumeister, Claudio Szenkar)

''Spectrum'' (1971, MPS 15301, re-released 2003)

''Inside: Missing Link'' (1972, MPS 15362) (u. a. mit Albert Mangelsdorff, Alan Skidmore, Heinz Sauer, John Taylor, Eberhard Weber, John Marshall, Peter Baumeister, Cees See)

''Lift!'' (1973, MPS 15390) (u.a. mit Zbigniew Seifert, Stan Sulzmann, Eberhard Weber, John Marshall)

''Mild Maniac'' (1974, MPS 15403) (u.a. mit Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber, Peter Giger, Joe Nay)

''Topical Harvest'' (1975, MPS 15471) (u.a. mit Albert Mangelsdorff, Rainer Brüninghaus, Peter Giger, Joe Nay)

''Octember Variations'' (1976, MPS 15495)

''Elastic Menu'' (1977, MPS 15517)

''Houseboat'' (1978, MPS 15535, mit Wolfgang Schlüter)

''Long Distance'' (1979, MPS 15549)

''Das Beste aus den Siebzigern'' (MPS 66893)

''Live in Bayern'' (1980, MPS 15.569)

''Journal'' (1981, mood 33.605)

''Schöne Aussichten'' (1983, mood 33.617)

''Palazzo Blue'' (1989, mood 33.608)

''Das Beste aus den Achtzigern'' (sampler of the previous 3, mood 6462)

ZOOM (1999, Remastered, 2-CD-Set, MPS 559 909-2)

With United Jazz + Rock Ensemble

''Live im Schützenhaus'' (1977, mood 33.609)

''Teamwork'' (1978, mood 33.618)

''The Break Even Point'' (1979, mood 33.619)

''Live in Berlin'' (1981, mood 28.628)

''United Live Opus Sechs'' (1984, mood 33.621)

''Round Seven'' (1987, mood 33.606)

''na endlich!'' (1992, mood 6382)

''die neunte von United'' (1996, mood 6472)

As sideman

Emil Mangelsdorff: ''Swinging Oil Drops'' (1966)

Klaus Doldinger: ''Doldinger Goes On'' (1967)

Kühn Brothers & The Mad Rockers (1969, MLP 15340)

Don "Sugarcane" Harris: ''Keep on Driving'' (1970)

Don "Sugarcane" Harris: ''Got the Blues'' (1972)

Don "Sugarcane" Harris: ''New Violin Summit'' (1972)

Don "Sugarcane" Harris: ''Keyzop'' (1975)

Don "Sugarcane" Harris: ''Flashin' Time'' (1976)

Dave Pike Set: ''Noisy Silence – Gentle Noise'' (1969, MPS 15215-ST)

Dave Pike Set: ''Four Reasons'' (1969, MPS 15253)

Dave PIke Set: ''Live at the Philharmonie'' (1969, MPS 15275)

Dave Pike Set: ''Album'' (1971, MPS 15309)

Dave Pike Set: ''Infra Red'' (1972, MPS 20739)

New Dave Pike Set: ''Salomao'' (1973, MPS MB-21541)

Jonny Teupen: ''Harpadelic'' (1969, MPS 15247)

Klaus Doldinger's Passport: ''Doldinger Jubilee Concert'' (1974)

Curt Cress Clan: CCC (1975)

Sources

Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; Priestley, Brian. ''Jazz: The Rough Guide'', Penguin, 1995, ISBN 1-85828-137-7

References

External links

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