In honor of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, theGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” utilizing the turntablism of Grandmixer DXT, helped hip-hop earn the respect of music critics and ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The Pabst Theater will soon host a celebrated musical legend, bringing a unique blend of jazz and contemporary sounds to the city. Herbie Hancock, a renowned jazz pianist and ...

The post Atmosphere’s Ant on Obsessing Over Herbie Hancock’s Improbable Hit “Rockit” appeared first on Consequence. After catching that memorable live performance, the recorded version of “Rockit” (as ...

The Grammy Award winning Herbie Hancock and the Rockit Band take you to the center of the break dancing, scratch music phenomena in this explosive presentation live in 1984 at the Hammersmith Odeon ...

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Herbie Hancock and Carlos Santana In The Studio, circa 1980 (Photo: Hancock Archives) From his earliest days as a pianist for Donald Byrd, then Miles Davis, up through his work in the 1960s, 1970s, ...

Musician and composer Herbie Hancock's career has careened from straight jazz to experimental electronic music over the decades, with his surprise 1983 break-dancing hit, "Rockit," helping set the ...

Used by Herbie Hancock in the Rockit video and Rockit performances. Used for technique called "vocoding" which changes human voice to an electronically synthesized sound. One of the first performers ...

It’s just a fad. That’s what critics and musicians, Black and white alike, had to say about hip-hop and rap music in 1983. The history of recorded hip-hop and rap music began in 1979 with Fatback’s ...