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): Alicia Coppola • Andy García • Benjamin Libet • Bill Bryden • Claire Danes • Edward Walter Maunder • Elena Grosheva • Felice Giardini • Leonid Derbenyov • Martin Brasier • Mateja Kežman • Otto Fritz Meyerhof • Reuben Gant • Robert Delaunay • William B. Bankhead • Yuriy Borzakovskiy

Born in the same month (April 1940): Anja Silja • Chuck Menville • Cliff Watson • Gilles Proulx • Giorgio Moroder • Hans-Joachim Reske • Jeffrey Archer • Jim McNab • Jim Roberts (ice hockey, born 1940) • Joan Snyder • John Havlicek • Lester Chambers • Marju Lauristin • Max Mosley • Michael Cleary (rugby) • Mike Beuttler • Pedro Armendáriz Jr. • Richard Attwood • Robert Walker (actor, born 1940) • Souleymane Cissé (film director) • Sue Grafton • Vladimir Cosma • Willie Davis (baseball)