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'''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>
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'''Herbie Hancock''' (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".
 
 
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Herbie Hancock (1940 - ) is a jazz 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".