| − | '''Herbie Hancock''' (1940 - ) is a [[jazz]] [[musician]]. He said, <blockquote>"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." <ref>http://www.spiritsound.com/sing/musicians1.html</ref></blockquote> | + | '''Herbie Hancock''' (born 1940) is a [[jazz]] [[piano|pianist]] who rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of [[Miles Davis]]'s quintet. As well as his important contribution to jazz, he has also dabbled in more popular forms of music, scoring a pop hit in the mid-1980s with a breakdance instrumental entitled "Rockit". |