In 1963 Hancock joined the band of none other than Jazz legend: Miles Davis.<\/p>\n
Simultaneously he was signed to the world famous jazz label Blue Note Records, where he began recording albums in\u00a0his own right. Hancock\u00a0also assisted\u00a0other artists under the same record company.<\/p>\n
His 1964 album\u00a0“Empyrean Isles”\u00a0 received widespread critical acclaim. One of the tracks off the album title “Cantaloupe Island” was even sampled by U.S. jazz\/rap group Us3 in their 1993 hit “Cantaloop, Flip Fantasia.”<\/p>\n
As well as other albums, he composed music for TV adverts and films including the 1966 film Blow Up starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BO6A8GBA2rb\/?taken-by=herbiehancockofficial<\/a><\/p>\n At the end of the sixties, Hancock left the Blue Note label and signed with Warner Bros records.<\/p>\n He also helped compose the theme song for Bill Cosby’s 1969 film\u00a0for television\u00a0“Hey, Hey, Hey,\u00a0its Fat Albert” which later led to a the Saturday morning cartoon series.<\/p>\n By this time Hancock had moved from acoustic to electric piano and was using both instruments to experiment with different sounds during the seventies, all whilst completing two albums for Warner Bros and a third for CBS, where had also put together his own group of jazz musicians to work \u00a0together on those albums.<\/p>\n During the eighties he achieved international success with his 1983 electro-hip-hop single “Rockit” from where he had totally embraced the synthesizer driven\u00a0pop which was coming out especially during the early part of that decade.<\/p>\n The song became an anthem for the break dancers, a\u00a0dance craze born out of New York’s black communities\u00a0and which swept the world between 1983 -86.<\/p>\n He also collaborated with the Scottish pop group Simple Minds on one of their albums\u00a0and produced music for 80’s films “A Soldiers Story” starring Denzel Washington, “Harlem Nights”\u00a0featuring Eddie Murphy\u00a0and “Action Jackson”\u00a0with Carl Weathers.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BOCb3ubAcBc\/?taken-by=herbiehancockofficial<\/a><\/p>\n In the 90’s and beyond Hancock has since returned to his jazz beginnings and continued to produce albums,\u00a0finally\u00a0becoming a Grammy Award winning artist in 2008 and then performing for\u00a0Barack Obama’s Inauguration the following.<\/p>\n Today, well into his seventies he still tours\u00a0and preforms.<\/p>\n These SS Collection<\/strong> glasses are similar to the ones worn by Herbie Hancock and which also come in Gunmetal as well as Black.<\/em><\/p>\n
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