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): Adam Graves • Alexander Ostrovsky • Dorothy Cumming • Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford • István Anhalt • Klaus Tafelmeier • Louis Beel • Mahmoud Younis • Muhammad al-Jawad • Nicolás Burdisso • Nikolay Przhevalsky • Pythagoras Papastamatiou • Sarah Monahan

Born in the same month (April 1940): Dale Houston • David Holford • Eric Dancer • George Adams (musician) • Giorgio Moroder • J. M. G. Le Clézio • James Gammon • Lester Chambers • Michael Cleary (rugby) • Mike Beuttler • Mike Hailwood • Peter Diamond • Robert Walker (actor, born 1940) • Souleymane Cissé (film director)