A modern music icon, Herbie Hancock played with the jazz greats and went on to become an Oscar- and multiple Grammy-winning musician-composer with enormous influence on both acoustic and electric jazz, R&B and hip-hop. The Chicago native took up piano at age 7 and, classically trained, was performing Mozart with symphony orchestras by age 11. He’s scored a number of films and is involved in several educational endeavors, including the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. He’s also the L.A. Philharmonic’s creative chair for jazz and UNESCO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue. Hancock reveals his musical influences and shares behind-the-scenes stories in his memoir, Possibilities.
Click here to watch the video via WNET, originally aired on November 7th, 2014