Discovered by trumpeter Donald Byrd at the start of the 60s, Hancock signed to Blue Note Records, and wrote jazz standards ...

"I've changed the course of music five times," Miles Davis once joked. The man wasn't lying: his need to try new genres made him one of the most impactful artists of the 20th century, a figure who ...

Filmmakers Stanley Nelson Jr. and Nicole London didn’t want to do a typical documentary on funk music. What they made is a ...

The electrifying spontaneity and lyricism of the Oliver, Lenihan, Davis Trio in their exploration of the music of their youth – from the Laurel Canyon songwriters to the psychedelic jazz of Sunset ...

Hancock, in turn, was told this by his old friend Miles Davis back in the ’60s — although he was a bit feistier about it. “He used more expletives than I just did,” Hancock added ...

In the 70s he was an early adopter of synthesisers ... Together they made up two fifths of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet. "I was always frightened playing with Miles," he laughs.