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Thank you for sharing this video!This video has been added to your favorites.Please login to add to flag a video.Would you like to comment?"YouTube recommends upgrading to a safer, modern browsersuch as Firefox.This video will appear on your blog shortly.Please login to add to your playlists.Be the first to Post a Video Response.When I play this song, you can tell that I'm white lol.This is so damn cool though...Would you like to comment?Herbie Hancock performing Chameleon live."YouTube recommends upgrading to a safer, modern browsersuch as Firefox.Trivia:
He plays jazz piano, keyboards, synthesizer and is also a composer.NewsDesk:
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A member of the "Artists United Against Apartheid" charity project in 1985.You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers.With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb.Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you.From the bebop stylings of Bud Powell and Wynton Kelly, the classical legacy of Ravel and Debussy, and not least from the diverse genres of contemporary music exploding around him, Hancock has forged a style all his own.At age seven he began studying European classical music, which continues to influence both his playing and composing.My first major in college, I chose electrical engineering because I was afraid of choosing music for practical purposes.Herbie's reputation as an astute pianist was starting to spread on the scene.Alfred Lions urged him to focus solely on originals.Thus, Hancock's debut album, Takin' Off, became the first debut album in Blue Note's history to contain all original compositions.Takin' Off contained "Watermelon Man," which not only became a hit for percussionist Mongo Santamaria, but was revised by Hancock himself as a funk classic on his 1973 Headhunters album.Tony Williams on drums, bassist Ron Carter, and pianist Wayne Shorter (left).This version of the Miles Davis Quintet quickly became one of the most enduring and influential small ensembles in the history of jazz.It was with Miles that Hancock began playing the electric piano and soon afterwards, he and fellow Miles associates Joe Zawinul and Chick Corea were recognized as the premier electric keyboard players in jazz.As Hancock discovered new directions in electric fusion with his own ensembles like Mwandishi and Headhunters, he also began writing scores for films and television like Bill Cosby's animated television special, Fat Albert (left) and movies like Blow Up and Death Wish.Hancock's music in the late 1960s and early '70s was just as striking and adventurous as his early work on Blue Note.Mwandishi recorded just one album for Columbia, Sextant, and disbanded after poor sales and concert attendance.Hancock continues to balance the acoustic and electric, the tradition and the modern.Not content to rest on any of his significant laurels, Herbie continues to push the limits and definitions of jazz and pop.My Point Of View (1963)
This time, Hank Mobley's on sax and Don Byrd plays trumpet.Empyrean Isles (1964)
Now, this experiment with group improvisation paid off.Beautifully undercomposed and underarranged, a worthy successor to
Kind Of Blue."Survival
of the Fittest" is just as good, with high drama, a playful Hancock solo
and a furious drum solo courtesy of Williams.Blow Up (1966)
The soundtrack to the Michelangelo Antonioni movie of the same name.It seems like an odd project, a large band with another pianist and
Hancock on organ.The band is focused and forceful, with Henderson
contributing a particularly fine solo on the title song, and though all the tracks run at least seven minutes or longer, none
are overlong.All the tunes is by Hancock, except for "Firewater," by Buster Williams, and they're solid band vehicles
but not as distinctive or hummable as his best work.Fat Albert Rotunda (1970)
Composed for the Bill Cosby show Fat Albert.Hancock
leaves most of the soloing to others, anchoring most of the pieces with
electric piano grooves.This album and the two following have been
collected on a 2 CD set called The Complete Warner Bros
Recordings.Mwandishi (1971)
A live record consisting of three long compositions.The Sextet remains the same, but
Dr.Pink Floyd,
albeit with vastly greater chops.Hancock's earlier work, or
the earthy funk of his later work.Head Hunters (1973)
Hancock's first true fusion release, which basically means taking the
most accessible elements of the Sextet period and making more effective
use of synthesizers.Davis was releasing during this period (of course, if you love Davis'
early 70s work you'll love this too).The source of "Joanna's Theme."Typically the bass, guitar and drums set up
a groove, and Herbie plays impressionistic synth solos on top of
it.Stevie Wonder guests on
harmonica, but seems unable to figure out the loping groove
"Steppin' In It," and doesn't perform up to his usual standard.Flood (1975)
A live record recorded in Japan.Child but not nearly as good.The remake of "Canteloupe Island" exemplifies the project: a classic jazz composition diluted into a mediocre, repetitive funk tune.Hancock does switch to piano long enough to deliver a brilliant solo on Bennie Maupin's otherwise
lackluster "Sansho Shima."The band is largely unchanged, but Ray Parker Jr.Not to mention that some of the fusion material isn't worthy of presentation in the first
place (an endless take on "Spider").Don't confuse this with V.Hancock, Carter and Williams are in top form here, filling the air with more musical invention than you'd think possible from three people: nonstop busy playing without getting in each other's way, as engaging as it is inventive ("Watch It").Most of the material is new, though, and even the less interesting compositions are enlivened by the boundless enthusiasm of the players ("Watcha Waitin' For," with a Carter solo that's simultaneously elegant and earthy).Sunlight (1978)
Essentially Hancock's first venture into pop, with some disco tunes featuring Hancock's vocoder stylings (the painful
"I Thought It Was You").However, there are a couple of bright spots: if you're in the mood for playful light funk a la Patrice Rushen, the uptempo "Tell Everybody" and the sticky
"Honey From The Jar" will do the trick.Parker on his "Ready Or Not," and "Knee Deep" features the Head Hunters plus Freddie Washington on bass.Lots of guests again, including
Washington, Sheila E.Carlos
Santana, Parker, Wah Wah and Jimi
Hendrix imitator Randy Hansen.Hands (1981)
The band this time around is most of the Headhunters, plus guests Carter
and Williams, Jaco Pastorius,
and Sheila E.Although still a rookie, Marsalis holds his
own, displaying the quiet confidence that later led him to make his
famous pronouncements about what jazz is and isn't.Hancock uses vocoder on a few tracks, but his contribution is
generally confined to brief, unilluminating solos ("The Bomb").Jones
associates like bassist Louis Johnson
and guitarist David Williams; plus Toto, Abe Laboriel, etc.The result was the hugely
influential "Rockit!"Guest appearances by reggae great Sly
Dunbar and Latin percussion virtuoso Daniel Ponce.Most of the same cast of characters is carried over from Future
Shock, except that Beinhorn is gone: D.Ponce, plus
frequent Laswell collaborator Ayb Dieng, and Nicky Skopelitis returns to
his usual guitar after being confined to vocals on Future Shock.Hancock and Wayne Shorter go
acoustic on "Karabali") but overall it's a formulaic, cynical offering
for the whole family to avoid.Round Midnight (1987)
Hancock ventured back into traditional jazz to supervise this film
score, which earned him an Oscar."Chan's Song (Never Said)" cowritten
with Stevie Wonder.As often happens with Laswell, he's so busy imprinting his sound
onto the record that the leader is shoved aside.Bop," where he plays some
tasty piano, and the album closing "Chemical Residue" which manages
to be lush and industrial at the same time.Bill Summer's take on acid jazz.Another success is the fusion number "Butterly," with
a nice, partly unaccompanied flute solo by Hubert Laws.Other guests
include the return of Wah Wah Watson and Bennie Maupin from the Sextet,
but they're only here in a supporting role.Some of the acid jazz tracks
are solid compositions ("Call It '95"), but it just makes you wish he'd
recorded them as plain jazz.Don Henley ("New York Minute") and others.The
sidemen (Michael Brecker on sax, John Scofield on guitar, Dave
Holland on bass, Jack DeJohnette and Don Alias on drums and
percussion) are fine, although only Scofield gets much solo space.Hancock's continual invention step for step.What we
have here is a bunch of great music that doesn't cohere into a great
album.Future2Future (2001)
The kind of music you'd hear in a power yoga class where the teacher is trying too hard to impress you...Hancock mostly confines himself to atmospheric synth washes and occasional noodling, leaving so much
open space the disc often has a New Age feel, though a couple of tunes are so singleminded and simpleminded they manage to be actively annoying
("Alphabeta").Shorter's legato runs are just window dressing.Possibilities (2005)
The latest attempt to recreate Santana's magic "Old Legend Meets Young Charttoppers" formula,
with a ton of guests singing while Hancock's somewhere in the background.Just Called To Say I Love You."River: The Joni Letters (2007)
A tribute to Joni Mitchell, and the second album in a row dedicated to the questionable proposition that people buy Herbie Hancock records because they want to listen to pop singers: for example, Norah Jones bringing far too much faux boho bravado to "Court And Spark."Unlike on Possibilities, though, Hancock exerts himself enough to reharmonize and reconstruct the tunes, in some cases going so far they become unrecognizeable ("Both Sides Now").Shorter (his own "Nefertiti," one of two songs that isn't from Mitchell).
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