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George Edward Coleman (born March 8, 1935 in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 hard bop
Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Hard bop incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing....
 saxophonist
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
, bandleader
Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
, and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 and Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
 in the 1960s.

Biography
Coleman taught himself to play the alto saxophone
Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the Tenor saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
 in his teens, inspired (like many jazz musicians of his generation) by Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
. Among his schoolmates were Harold Mabern
Harold Mabern

Harold Mabern is a hard bop and soul jazz pianist.Early in his career, Mabern played in Chicago with MJT + 3 in the late 1950s and then moved to New York in 1959....
, Booker Little
Booker Little

Booker Little, Jr was an United States jazz trumpeter and composer.Despite his premature death from kidney failure at the age of 23, Little made an important contribution to the jazz music....
, Frank Strozier
Frank Strozier

Frank Strozier is an alto saxophone renowned for his playing in the hard bop idiom.Frank Strozier has long been a top-notch hard bop stylist whose intense sound recalls Jackie McLean....
, Hank Crawford
Hank Crawford

Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. was an United States rhythm and blues, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter....
 and Charles Lloyd. After working with Ray Charles
Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
, Coleman started working with B.B. King in 1953, at which point he switched to tenor saxophone
Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
.






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George Edward Coleman (born March 8, 1935 in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 hard bop
Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Hard bop incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing....
 saxophonist
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
, bandleader
Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
, and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 and Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
 in the 1960s.

Biography


Coleman taught himself to play the alto saxophone
Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the Tenor saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
 in his teens, inspired (like many jazz musicians of his generation) by Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
. Among his schoolmates were Harold Mabern
Harold Mabern

Harold Mabern is a hard bop and soul jazz pianist.Early in his career, Mabern played in Chicago with MJT + 3 in the late 1950s and then moved to New York in 1959....
, Booker Little
Booker Little

Booker Little, Jr was an United States jazz trumpeter and composer.Despite his premature death from kidney failure at the age of 23, Little made an important contribution to the jazz music....
, Frank Strozier
Frank Strozier

Frank Strozier is an alto saxophone renowned for his playing in the hard bop idiom.Frank Strozier has long been a top-notch hard bop stylist whose intense sound recalls Jackie McLean....
, Hank Crawford
Hank Crawford

Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. was an United States rhythm and blues, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter....
 and Charles Lloyd. After working with Ray Charles
Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
, Coleman started working with B.B. King in 1953, at which point he switched to tenor saxophone
Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
. In 1956 Coleman moved to Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, along with Booker Little
Booker Little

Booker Little, Jr was an United States jazz trumpeter and composer.Despite his premature death from kidney failure at the age of 23, Little made an important contribution to the jazz music....
, where he worked with Gene Ammons
Gene Ammons

Eugene "Jug" Ammons was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons.Ammons began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax band in 1943, at the age of 18....
 and Johnny Griffin
Johnny Griffin

John Arnold Griffin III was an United States bebop and hard bop tenor saxophonist....
 before joining Max Roach
Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
 Quintet 1958-1959. Coleman recorded with organist Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith (musician)

Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument. In 2005, Jimmy Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honors that the United States bestows upon jazz musicians....
's Houseparty (1957), with Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller is a United States of America hard bop trombone, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers....
, Eddie McFadden, Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an United States jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians....
, and Donald Bailey
Donald Bailey

Sir Donald Coleman Bailey Order of the British Empire was an England civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge....
. Moving to New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 with Max Roach
Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
 in that year, he went on to play with Slide Hampton
Slide Hampton

Locksley Wellington "Slide" Hampton is an United States jazz trombonist, composer and arranger. He was a Grammy Awards of 1998 winner for "Best Jazz Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist", as arranger for "Cotton Tail" performed by Dee Dee Bridgewater....
 (1959-1962), Ron Carter
Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an United States jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar....
, Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb

Jimmy Cobb is an United States Jazz drumming. He has worked extensively with a wide range of artists, including Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Wynton Kelly, Stan Getz, Wes Montgomery, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Kenny Burrell, J....
, and Wild Bill Davis
Wild Bill Davis

Wild Bill Davis was the stage name of United States jazz Piano, organist, and arranger William Strethen Davis.Davis was born in Glasgow, Missouri....
 (1962), before joining Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 Quintet in 1963-1964.

His most famous albums with Davis (and the rhythm section of Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
 (piano), Ron Carter
Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an United States jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar....
 (bass) and Tony Williams
Tony Williams

Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams was an United States Jazz drumming.Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s, Williams first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis, and was a pioneer of jazz fusion....
 (drums)) are Seven Steps to Heaven
Seven Steps to Heaven (album)

Seven Steps to Heaven is an album recorded in 1963 by Miles Davis. On the 16th and 17th of April, a quintet comprising Davis, George Coleman, Victor Feldman, Ron Carter and Frank Butler recorded all six tunes plus "Summer Night", for an album to be titled So Near, So Far....
 (1963), A Rare Home Town (1963), Côte Blues (1963), In Europe (1963), My Funny Valentine
My Funny Valentine (album)

My Funny Valentine is a 1964 live album by Miles Davis. It was recorded at a concert at the Lincoln Center, New York, on February 12, 1964....
 (1964) and Four and More, both live recordings of a concert in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in New York City....
 in New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 in February 1964. Shortly after this concert, Coleman was replaced by Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is an United States jazz composer and saxophone, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz saxophonists and composers since the 1960s....
. The following year, he played on Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
's Maiden Voyage
Maiden Voyage

For the other meaning, see Maiden voyageMaiden Voyage is the fifth album led by jazz musician Herbie Hancock, and was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1965 for Blue Note Records....
 (1964), with Ron Carter
Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an United States jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar....
 and Tony Williams
Tony Williams

Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams was an United States Jazz drumming.Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s, Williams first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis, and was a pioneer of jazz fusion....
, generally considered to be one of the pianist's finest albums. He played with Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton , was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players....
 (1965-1966), also in 1965 and performed on Chet Baker
Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was an United States jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer.Specializing in relaxed, even melancholy music, Baker rose to prominence as a leading name in cool jazz in the 1950s....
's The Prestige Sessions, with Kirk Lightsey, Herman Wright
Herman Wright

Herman Wright- A jazz bassist from Detroit, Michigan. He began on drums as a teen before ultimately settling on. He did notable work with Dorothy Ashby, Terry Gibbs, Yusef Lateef, George Shearing, and Doug Watkins....
 and Roy Brooks. Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
 (1977-1978), Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott

Shirley Scott was a hard bop and soul-jazz organist....
 (1972), Clark Terry
Clark Terry

Clark Terry , is an American swing music and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee....
, Horace Silver
Horace Silver

Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio, Cape Verde in Cape Verde....
, Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
, Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones

Elvin Ray Jones was one of the most influential Jazz drumming of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
 (1968), Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal

Ahmad Jamal on July 2, 1930, is a noted United States jazz pianist. Jamal was one of Miles Davis's favorite pianists and was a key influence on the trumpeter's "First Great Quintet" ....
 (1994, 2000) and many others.

Those who listen to Coleman's recordings will find him to be a lyrical player of rare quality. One such example is the 1998 album, a Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
 tribute, I Could Write a Book, on which he plays tenor
Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
, alto
Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the Tenor saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
 and soprano
Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone was invented in 1840 and is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument. The soprano is the second in size of the saxophone family which consists, as generally accepted, of the sopranino saxophone, soprano, Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, and contrabass saxophone....
 saxes
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
. His 1987 album, In Your Own Sweet Way, also received critical acclaim. His My Horns Of Plenty Top Jazz (1991), on the Billboard chart peak to #19 for Top Jazz Album. On this excellent set, George Coleman plays his usual tenor on four tunes, alto on "Old Folks," and soprano on "Conrad." With the assistance of pianist Harold Mabern
Harold Mabern

Harold Mabern is a hard bop and soul jazz pianist.Early in his career, Mabern played in Chicago with MJT + 3 in the late 1950s and then moved to New York in 1959....
, bassist Ray Drummond
Ray Drummond

Ray Drummond is a jazz double bass and teacher. He also has an Master of Business Administration from Stanford University, hence his linkage to the Stanford Jazz Workshop....
 and drummer Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins

Billy Higgins was an United States Jazz drumming. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.He played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958....
, Coleman is heard at the top of his game, coming up with interesting variations on lengthy version of "Lush Life," "My Romance" and "Old Folks."

He also appeared in the film "Freejack
Freejack

Freejack is a 1992 in film science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy. It stars Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, and Anthony Hopkins....
", the 1992 science-fiction film with Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez

'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
, Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
 and Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, Order of the British Empire is a Welsh People film, theater and television actor. Considered by many to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is best known for his portrayal of cannibalism serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 in film blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs , its sequel, Hannibal ,...
; and 1996’s "Preacher’s Wife" with Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an United States actor and film director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B....
 and Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
.

Coleman is still in full motion. His CD as co-leader, Four Generations of Miles: A Live Tribute to Miles, with bassist Ron Carter
Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an United States jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar....
, drummer Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb

Jimmy Cobb is an United States Jazz drumming. He has worked extensively with a wide range of artists, including Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Wynton Kelly, Stan Getz, Wes Montgomery, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Kenny Burrell, J....
 and guitarist Mike Stern
Mike Stern

Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. A major player on the scene since his breakthrough days with Miles Davis' comeback band, circa 1981, Stern's sideman credits include work with such jazz icons as saxophonists Stan Getz and Joe Henderson, bassist Jaco Pastorius, guitarists Jim Hall and Pat Martino, trumpeters Tom Harrell, Arturo Sand...
 was released on Chesky Records
Chesky Records

Chesky Records is a record label aimed primarily at audiophiles. For the most part, jazz, Latin jazz, Classical music, and adult contemporary CDs and DVDs are produced, but they also manufacture high end audio equipment....
 in October 2002 and concentrates almost exclusively on the 1950s repertoire of Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
. Tracks include: "There Is No Greater Love," "All Blues," "On Green Dolphin Street," "Blue in Green," "81," "Freddie Freeloader," "My Funny Valentine," "If I Were a Bell," and "Oleo." He recently was heard on Joey DeFrancesco
Joey DeFrancesco

Joey DeFrancesco is an United States jazz organist, trumpeter, and vocalist. Down Beat's 2003 Critics Poll selected him as the top jazz organist....
's 2006 release Organic Vibes, along with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson
Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern....
, Billboard's Top Jazz Album, peaked to #17.

Discography


As leader

YearTitleGenreLabel
2002Four Generations of Miles: A Live Tribute to MilesJazzChesky
2000Danger High VoltageJazzTwo & Four Recordings
1998I Could Write a Book: The Music of Richard RodgersJazzTelarc
1992At Yoshi's (Live)JazzEvidence
1991My Horns of PlentyJazzVerve
1989Manhattan PanoramaJazzEvidence
1977Dynamic DuoJazzTimeless
1976RevivalJazzCatalyst

As sideman

With Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  • Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)
  • Quiet Nights
    Quiet Nights

    Quiet Nights is an album recorded in 1962 and 1963 by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. The first six tunes were recorded in 1962 with an orchestra conducted by Evans, and "Summer Night" was recorded in 1963 by Davis with a short-lived quintet , during the sessions for the album Seven Steps to Heaven , although Coleman lays out on this numb...
     (1963)
With Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
  • Maiden Voyage
    Maiden Voyage

    For the other meaning, see Maiden voyageMaiden Voyage is the fifth album led by jazz musician Herbie Hancock, and was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1965 for Blue Note Records....
     (1965)

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