Keyboardist, bandleader, and jazz innovator.
With his frequent forays into electronic music, funk and R&B, Herbie Hancock often drives purists crazy, but he continues to explore and expand the idiom of jazz to this day.
Hancock was a child prodigy on the piano. At the age of 11, he performed the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major at a young people's concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.