That man is Herbie Hancock. His 1983 single, “Rockit,” tapped into hip-hop’s incorporation of New York electro and record scratching with the facilities of a so-called jazz musician and ...

That man is Herbie Hancock. His 1983 single, “Rockit,” tapped into hip-hop’s incorporation of New York electro and record scratching with the facilities of a so-called jazz musician and ...

Herbie Hancock taught me this lesson with “Rockit.” When the single was first released in 1983 I was only a toddler. But it was a hit, ...

Herbie Hancock on 80 years of playing the piano and being this year's recipient of the Polar Music Prize. ... he had a bona fide worldwide hit single with Rockit after embracing turntablism and ...

Herbie Hancock reimagined the 50th-anniversary Head Hunters reunion as a powerful ... This 45 single laser-focused on Hancock’s low-end bass line and ... “Rockit,” handling all the ...

The title of Herbie Hancock's 1973 hit single "Chameleon," pulled from his jazz-funk monster Head Hunters (Columbia), was an apt one. Hancock had already undergone several transformations: from the ...

Even Herbie Hancock doesn't like piano practice, ... Looks like despite now being 84 - just like his mastery of the robots in his Rockit video - Herbie still has a way with machines.

1983 a new pull to the alternative side led Herbie to collaborate with Bill Laswell. The first, ‘Future Shock,' again struck platinum, and the single “Rockit” rocked the dance and R&B charts ...

Ah, to tour as Herbie Hancock. The Chicago native, turning 84 next week, is one of music’s most catalytic forces — never mind in jazz, where he first made his name as a member of Miles Davis ...

Herbie Hancock on 80 years of playing the piano and being this year's recipient of the Polar Music Prize. ... he had a bona fide worldwide hit single with Rockit after embracing turntablism and ...

Herbie Hancock on 80 years of playing the piano and being this year's recipient of the Polar Music Prize. ... he had a bona fide worldwide hit single with Rockit after embracing turntablism and ...