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# Herbie Hancock: Possibilities

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desertcart.com: Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (Audible Audio Edition): Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey, Herbie Hancock, Penguin Audio: Books

Review: He's one of my favorite artists and I loved reading this book - I found Herbie's story to be absolutely riveting. He's one of my favorite artists and I loved reading this book. As a musician, I was thrilled to tap into personal insights into his work with all the stellar musicians/producers/engineers and I was right there with them on their respective tours. Herbie was truthful, transparent and vulnerable as he shared with us some of the painful sides of his journey in life. Learning how his profound spirituality and deep personal connection to source is both inspirational and joyful. #Respect.
Review: Time well spent. - Even as a fan of Herbie Hancock's, you learn just how great and creative as a musician he is. This biography moves easily through his life stages and changes. A good deal of time is spent on his time with Miles and the influence throughout his career of that quintet. He deals with all aspects of his life and career including his Buddhist practice, his close relationships both in and out of music, as well as a candid view of his drug addiction. Overall, this is an open honest autobiography. Easy to read and full of history from one of the jazz greats.

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ He's one of my favorite artists and I loved reading this book
*by D***N on July 9, 2016*

I found Herbie's story to be absolutely riveting. He's one of my favorite artists and I loved reading this book. As a musician, I was thrilled to tap into personal insights into his work with all the stellar musicians/producers/engineers and I was right there with them on their respective tours. Herbie was truthful, transparent and vulnerable as he shared with us some of the painful sides of his journey in life. Learning how his profound spirituality and deep personal connection to source is both inspirational and joyful. #Respect.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Time well spent.
*by I***N on December 14, 2014*

Even as a fan of Herbie Hancock's, you learn just how great and creative as a musician he is. This biography moves easily through his life stages and changes. A good deal of time is spent on his time with Miles and the influence throughout his career of that quintet. He deals with all aspects of his life and career including his Buddhist practice, his close relationships both in and out of music, as well as a candid view of his drug addiction. Overall, this is an open honest autobiography. Easy to read and full of history from one of the jazz greats.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "EVER SINCE I WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD, MUSIC HAD BEEN THE NUMBER ONE THING IN MY LIFE."
*by S***N on October 23, 2014*

This memoir by Hancock (with Lisa Dickey) covers roughly seven decades up to the present in Hancock's life, both in and out of music. There's 16 pages of b&w photos from across Hancock's life. There's no contents page, but the book is broken into twenty-four chapters which explore his life and the changes in his music over the years. Included is an Index. Beginning as a child prodigy, to his classic Blues Note Records work, to his change from acoustic jazz to electronic jazz/funk/r&b, to his collaborations with many different artists, to winning many Grammy awards, Hancock has played with many of the very best (mostly) jazz musicians of the Twentieth Century. For me that, and his musical influences, are what I wanted to read about and Hancock doesn't disappoint. Also included is his long time marriage which influenced his life greatly, and how the Buddhist religion inspired him on all levels of life and music. Beginning with his childhood, Hancock talks in some detail about his early life and the people around him. He says his neighborhood wasn't a "bad" place but it was a rough area. The first time he "met a white kid was in high school." His mother was bipolar and his father "was a sweet, easygoing man", who wanted to be a doctor. And once his family got a piano all Hancock wanted to do was play music, teaching himself the rudiments of the instrument. At eleven years of age he played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and as Hancock says, "Then I turned my attention to the piano, and from the moment I played the first few notes, the rest of the world might as well have not existed." His earliest jazz exposure was on WGES radio, with the first jazz tune he really noticed was "Moonlight In Vermont" by guitarist Johnny Smith and tenor sax player Stan Getz. Heading off to college Hancock was torn between receiving an education in science or music. It's interesting that Hancock never practices more than an hour a day, but spends many hours analyzing music. He listened to Oscar Peterson and tried to emulate some of his style during this time. He left college one credit shy of graduating because he wanted to play jazz seriously. In 1966 he got the chance to play with Coleman Hawkins and from that point never really looked back. He next played with Pepper Adams and Donald Byrd before moving to New York, where he again played with Byrd at the Five Spot. It's from Byrd that Hancock approached Blue Note Records, which began a string of some of the best jazz albums of the period, beginning with"Takin' Off". And after that period of acoustic music, including playing with Miles Davis, he began exploring more electronic ways of playing music. "Miles, am I in the band?" "You makin' a record m###a#####r!". Hancock to Davis. "I never understood how he could play so brilliantly while being stone drunk." Hancock on Wayne Shorter in Miles Davis' band. "Herbie, that post office job is interfering with the music. You've got to quit." Drummer Louis Taylor to Hancock. Hancock talks about his many and different gigs, songs he's written, and recording sessions over the first years as a serious musician. Playing with Miles Davis in his mid-twenties, Hancock was living the good life, and around this time he met his future wife Gigi. It's also during this period that Hancock tried LSD. Plus, he reveals he was addicted to crack cocaine fora number of years. From this point Hancock delves into his life in music with some great details about his music (both acoustic and electronic) and recording with different musicians. Hancock is a storehouse of information about that whole era of jazz and his stories and observations are laid out in an easy to read, you-are-there style of writing. At times because of his conversational style of writing, you have the feeling that he's catching you up on different parts of his career in music--like the gig after his surgery--and finally getting use of all ten fingers ("I could hardly believe the irony--that my own cancer scare would find it's ultimate resolution in playing for a friend who was fighting cancer.") the night before his concert. Hancock talks briefly about the V.S.O.P. band that recorded albums in the 70's to good acclaim, and his duo with Chick Corea playing acoustic music--in addition to his work with the Headhunters during the same period. "I knew I needed to quit, but I still didn't realize quite how bad it had gotten." Herbie Hancock on his crack cocaine addiction. "Soon the walls started moving, and creatures started appearing on the ceiling. And then the apartment somehow became a train...." Hancock describing his first LSD trip. "At some point I bought a van from the saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and all of us would cram into it for out-of-town gigs." Herbie Hancock. "For me, Miles never went away." Herbie Hancock. "Tony Williams burned through life like the brightest flame." Herbie Hancock. He also talks about his Buddhist religion and how that has been a continuing foundation in his life, along with his long, happy marriage. And while those areas are certainly important to really have a fuller picture of Hancock, and his life would certainly have turned out differently without his wife and Buddhism, it's when he talks with some detail about music that the book (for me) really becomes interesting and informative. Hancock has played with and/or witnessed some of the greatest jazz musicians in the history of the music. And this book sheds light on the inner workings of both Hancock and other musicians like Miles Davis ("When asked by a journalist about reuniting the quintet with Ron, Tony, Wayne, and myself, he said, 'No. That would be like making love to the first woman over again.'"), and jazz in general during perhaps the greatest era for the music. "But what few people realize is that Miles was actually influenced by Tony's band, Tony Williams Lifetime," Herbie Hancock. "When Miles heard what Tony was doing he said,"This is the s##t, and he followed in Tony's footsteps with Bitches Brew." Herbie Hancock. "Lifetime was the cornerstone band of jazz-rock fusion--and it's also the reason I wear a hearing aid now." Herbie Hancock. "Back in 1965, when I turned that Yardley cologne jingle into the song "Maiden Voyage", I discovered something about writing music." Herbie Hancock. "With each new record I wanted to jump off the cliff in a different spot." Herbie Hancock. If you're either a Hancock fan or a jazz fan in general, this book will give you some insight into that whole era of music-making. This book is worth adding to your shelf of jazz/music books.

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