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Herbie also gained prominence as a composer with “Maiden Voyage”, “Dolphin Dance”, “The Sorcerer”, “Eye of the Hurricane”, “Speak Like a Child” and of course, “Watermellon Man” being his most well known tunes.
In the 70’s and 80’s he got into the more electric side of things and recorded some very successful albums such as “Head Hunters”, “Future Shock” (1983) and “Sound System” (1984). These albums featured electronic keyboards and a funk feel.

Herbie Hancock was born in Chicago on April 12, 1940. Herbie was a child prodigy who started with the classical repertoire and performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of eleven. He learned jazz piano by listening to the records of George Shearing and Oscar Peterson, transcribing their solos note for note.
After college, where he studied electrical engineering and music, his first gig was with trumpeter Donald Byrd. In 1962 Herbie’s solo record debut, “Takin’ Off”, with Dexter Gordon and Freddie Hubbard premiered his first big hit, “Watermelon Man.”

Especially, I want my work (and the trio’s if possible) to sing.” The trio’s early records such as “The Village Vanguard Sessions”, readily attest to the fact that Bill had realized his musical goal.
Scott LaFaro was the perfect bass player for this type of lyrical and harmonic interplay, as was drummer Paul Motian.
Bill liked to explore the more impressionistic aspects of the piano and this is exemplified on the album “Conversations with Myself” on which he overdubbed several tracks.

William John Evans was born in Plainfield, N.J., August 16, 1929. He died on September 15, 1980. After Bud Powell, Bill was the next major innovative and influential jazz pianist.
His unique style, which has been adopted by countless pianists since, favored lush piano voicings, played with a sensitive, introspective touch. His improvisation tended to be lyrical and scale based (the left hand voicing often had a half-step interval buried in the middle of the chord.

Keith Jarrett was born on May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Keith started studying classical piano at a very early age and very soon became a child prodigy performing his first concert at age six.
As he says himself: “I grew up with the piano, I learned it’s language while I learned to speak”. He studied at Berklee School of Music in Boston with Ray Santisi whose playing he admired.

After all of the electric and synthesizer sounds of the ’70’s Jarrett’s solo concert albums created a market for the sound of the grand piano again.
More recently, he has teamed up with bassist Gary Peacock and his old drummer friend, Jack DeJohnette to produce a series of records of standards. This marks a distinctive break with the long period of solo concerts which were starting to become a little overbearing and self-indulgent.
These trio albums raise the art of the Jazz trio to the kind of level of consistency not heard of since Bill Evans.

In 1970 he formed the group Circle with Anthony Braxton, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul and so began a change in direction to free interplay. Feeling limited and confined, Chick left the group in 1971 to record a couple of solo albums for ECM.
The album Light As A Feather, featured Chick’s most famous tune to date, “Spain” which is a Samba with a flowing and memorable melody punctuated by a very rhythmical unison interlude sans bass and drums.
Other well-known Corea tunes are: What Was; Windows; Armando’s Rumba; Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly; Senor Mouse; Times Lie.

Chick Corea was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1941. His father was a jazz musician. His earliest influences were Horace Silver and Bud Powell.
His early classical training allowed strands of Debussy, Bartok, Stravinsky, and Ravel to show through. During the early ’60’s he played in Latin and Afro-Cuban groups like Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo and Herbie Mann.
Later in the ’60’s Chick played with Blue Mitchell and Stan Getz. Two of his compositions, Litha and Windows, were recorded on the session for “Sweet Rain”.

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