Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles, using a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this period that he released perhaps his best-known and most influential album, Head Hunters.

12 April 1940

Born on the same birth date (12 April 1940): Woodie Fryman

Born on the same birth day (12 April): Brennan Boesch • Flavio Briatore • John Dunsworth • Joseph Lanner • Josh McCrone • Kennedy Simmonds • Leicester Rutledge • Louis Beel • Magda Szubanski • Otto Fritz Meyerhof • Pat Travers • Pythagoras Papastamatiou • Sehun • Tenby Davies • Toby Gad • Tony Earl

Born in the same month (April 1940): Agostino Vallini • Col Firmin • Dale Houston • David Holford • Donald Jackson (figure skater) • Eric Dancer • George Adams (musician) • Gilles Proulx • Hans-Joachim Reske • Joan Snyder • Joseph L. Goldstein • Margrethe II • Marju Lauristin • Michael Cleary (rugby) • Mike Vickers • Penelope Keith • Peter Diamond • Robert Lacroix • Robert Walker (actor, born 1940) • Sharon Sheeley • Ülo Õun