Herbie Hancock “Jessica” Jazz Play Along (sheet music)

Herbie Hancock “Jessica” Jazz Play Along with sheet music

Jazz play along jazz sheet music transcription

Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock will always be one of the most revered and controversial figures in jazz, just as his employer/mentor Miles Davis was when he was alive. Unlike Miles, who pressed ahead relentlessly and never looked back until near the very end, Hancock has cut a zigzagging forward path, shuttling between almost every development in electronic and acoustic jazz and R&B over the last third of the 20th century and into the 21st.

Please, subscribe to our Library.

If you are already a subscriber, please, check our NEW SCORES’ page every month for new sheet music. THANK YOU!

Though grounded in Bill Evans and able to absorb blues, funk, gospel, and even modern classical influences, Hancock‘s piano and keyboard voices are entirely his own, with their own urbane harmonic and complex, earthy rhythmic signatures — and young pianists cop his licks constantly.

Having studied engineering and professing to love gadgets and buttons, Hancock was perfectly suited for the electronic age; he was one of the earliest champions of the Rhodes electric piano and Hohner clavinet, and would field an ever-growing collection of synthesizers and computers on his electric dates.

Yet his love for the grand piano never waned, and despite his peripatetic activities all over the musical map, his piano style continued to evolve into tougher, ever more complex forms. He is as much at home trading riffs with a smoking funk band as he is communing with a world-class post-bop rhythm section — and that drives purists on both sides of the fence up the wall.

Having taken up the piano at age seven, Hancock quickly became known as a prodigy, soloing in the first movement of a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony at the age of 11.

After studies at Grinnell College, Hancock was invited by Donald Byrd in 1961 to join his group in New York City, and before long, Blue Note offered him a solo contract. His debut album, Takin’ Off, took off after Mongo Santamaria covered one of the album’s songs, “Watermelon Man.” In May 1963, Miles Davis asked him to join his band in time for the Seven Steps to Heaven sessions, and he remained with him for five years, greatly influencing Davis‘ evolving direction, loosening up his own style, and, upon Davis‘ suggestion, converting to the Rhodes electric piano.

During that time, Hancock‘s solo career blossomed on Blue Note, as he poured forth increasingly sophisticated compositions like “Maiden Voyage,” “Cantaloupe Island,” “Goodbye to Childhood,” and the exquisite “Speak Like a Child.” He also played on many East Coast recording sessions for producer Creed Taylor and provided a groundbreaking score to Michelangelo Antonioni‘s film Blow-Up, which gradually led to further movie assignments.

Having left the Davis band in 1968, Hancock recorded an elegant funk album, Fat Albert Rotunda, and in 1969 formed a sextet that evolved into one of the most exciting, forward-looking jazz-rock groups of the era. By then deeply immersed in electronics, Hancock added Patrick Gleeson‘s synthesizer to his Echoplexed, fuzz-wah-pedaled electric piano and clavinet, and the recordings became spacier and more complex rhythmically and structurally, creating their own corner of the avant-garde. By 1970, all of the musicians used both English and African names (Herbie‘s was Mwandishi).

Alas, Hancock had to break up the band in 1973 when it ran out of money, and having studied Buddhism, he concluded that his ultimate goal should be to make his audiences happy.

The next step, then, was a terrific funk group whose first album, Head Hunters, with its Sly Stone-influenced hit single, “Chameleon,” became the biggest-selling jazz LP up to that time. Handling all of the synthesizers himself, Hancock‘s heavily rhythmic comping often became part of the rhythm section, leavened by interludes of the old urbane harmonies. Hancock recorded several electric albums of mostly superior quality in the ’70s, followed by a turn into disco around the decade’s end.

In the meantime, Hancock refused to abandon acoustic jazz. After a one-shot reunion of the 1965 Miles Davis Quintet (Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, and Freddie Hubbard sitting in for Miles) at New York’s 1976 Newport Jazz Festival, they went on tour the following year as V.S.O.P.

The near-universal acclaim of the reunions proved that Hancock was still a whale of a pianist; that Miles‘ loose mid-’60s post-bop direction was far from spent; and that the time for a neo-traditional revival was near, finally bearing fruit in the ’80s with Wynton Marsalis and his ilk. V.S.O.P. continued to hold sporadic reunions through 1992, though the death of the indispensable Williams in 1997 cast much doubt as to whether these gatherings would continue.

Hancock continued his chameleonic ways in the ’80s: scoring an MTV hit in 1983 with the scratch-driven, electro-influenced single “Rockit” (accompanied by a striking video); launching an exciting partnership with Gambian kora virtuoso Foday Musa Suso that culminated in the swinging 1986 live album Jazz Africa; doing film scores, and playing festivals and tours with the Marsalis brothers, George Benson, Michael Brecker, and many others. After his 1988 techno-pop album, Perfect Machine, Hancock left Columbia (his label since 1973), signed a contract with Qwest that came to virtually nothing (save for A Tribute to Miles in 1992), and finally made a deal with Polygram in 1994 to record jazz for Verve and release pop albums on Mercury.

Well into a youthful middle age, Hancock‘s curiosity, versatility, and capacity for growth showed no signs of fading, and in 1998 he issued Gershwin’s World. His curiosity with the fusion of electronic music and jazz continued with 2001’s Future 2 Future, but he also continued to explore the future of straight-ahead contemporary jazz with 2005’s Possibilities. An intriguing album of jazz treatments of Joni Mitchell compositions called River: The Joni Letters was released in 2007 and won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2008.

Two years later, Hancock released his The Imagine Project album, recorded in seven countries with a host of collaborators including Dave Matthews, Juanes, and Wayne Shorter. He was also named Creative Chair for the New Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2013, he was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honors award, acknowledged for his contribution to American performing arts. An expanded tenth anniversary edition of River: The Joni Letters was released in 2017, and he continues to perform regularly.

Herbie Hancock’s discography

Download the best scores and sheet music transcriptions from our Library.

Browse in the Library:

Total Records Found in the Library: 12472, showing 120 per page
Artist or Composer / Score nameCoverList of Contents
A dozen A Day Book 1 Technical exercises for the piano sheet music score download partitura partition spartiti A dozen A Day Book 1 Technical exercises for the piano
A dozen A Day Book 2 Technical exercises for the piano sheet music score download partitura partition spartiti
A dozen A Day Book 3 Technical exercises for the piano sheet music score download partitura partition spartiti
A dozen A Day Book 4 Technical exercises for the piano sheet music score download partitura partition spartiti
A dozen A Day Mini Book Technical exercises for the piano sheet music score download partitura partition spartiti
A dozen Day Preparatory Book Technical exercises for the piano sheet music score download partitura partition spartiti
A Farewell To Arms Love Theme From A Farewell To Arms film by Mario Nascimbene Francis Webster 1957 free sheet music partitura partition noten
A Felicidade (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
A Festival Gathering Of Carols (Musescore File).mscz
A Fine Frenzy – Almost Lover free sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti
A Fistful of Dollars (Ennio Morricone)
A Generative Theory Of Tonal Music by Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff (Book) free sheet music partitura partition noten
A Guide To Guitar Chords by Curt Sheller sheet music download A Guide To Guitar Chords by Curt Sheller
A Guide To Musical Analysis by Nicholas Cook (Book) sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti partituras
A Handbook Of Piano Playing (By Eric Hope) (1962)
A Heart Full Of Love (Musescore File).mscz
A love suicide (Yutaka Minobe)
A Love Supreme (by Ashley Kahn) The story of john Coltrane’s signature album (Book) sheet music
A Media Luz (Edgardo Donato)
A Modern Approach To Jazz Rock And Fusion For Guitar with Tablature free sheet music & scores pdf download A Modern Approach To Jazz Rock And Fusion For Guitar
A Modern Method For Guitar (Berklee) 1 by William Leavitt free scores A Modern Method Berklee 1
A Modern Method For Guitar (Berklee) 2 by William Leavitt free scores A Modern Method For Guitar (Berklee) 2
A Modern Method For Guitar (Berklee) 3 by William Leavitt free scores A Modern Method For Guitar (Berklee) 3
A MOZART REINCARNATED (Ennio Morricone) sheet music download partitura partition spartito
A Mozart Reincarnated by Ennio Morricone (Musescore File).mscz
A New Approach To Ear Training by Leo Kraft (BOOK) sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
A New Approach To Piano Technique (By Ruth A. Dickerson) (1962) sheet music pdf A new approach to piano technique
A Night In Tunisia – Dizzy Gillespie.mscz
A Pedal Method For The Piano (By Albert F Venino) (1893) sheet music pdf
A Popular Account Of Ancient Musical Instruments And Their Development by William Lynd (Book 1897) sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti partituras
A Rockin’ Christmas Piano Vocal Guitar sheet music pdf 20 songs to sing on a rockin’ Christmas Eve Includes: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer * Happy Xmas (War Is Over) * Jingle-Bell Rock * Merry Merry Christmas Baby * Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree * Santa Baby & moreRockin Christmas
A Single Man – George’s Waltz (Shigeru Umebayashi)
A Single Man – Stillness of the Mind (Abel Korzeniowski)
A Smooth Jazz Christmas – Mellow Seasonal Favorites for Piano arr. Roger House free sheet music A Smooth Jazz Christmas – Mellow Seasonal Favorites for Piano arr. Roger House
A Song For You – Leon Russell Ray Charles (Musescore File).mscz
A Star Is Born – Always Remember Us This Way Lady Gaga free sheet music pdf
A Star Is Born – Shallow Lady Lady Gaga free sheet music pdf
A Tale Of Two Sisters Ost – Epilogue Piano Solo sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti partituras
A Thousand Years – Twilight OST (Christina Perri)
A Time For Love – Johnny Mandel free sheet music pdf
A Time For Us – Guitar TABlature sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti partituras
A Time For Us (Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet) Nino Rota free sheet music pdf
A Time For Us (Romeo and Juliet OST) Nino Rota
A Touch Of Jazz 14 well-known hymns, gospel songs and contemporary praise songs by Wolaver Bill sheet music download A Touch Of Jazz 14 well-known hymns, gospel songs and contemporary praise songs by Wolaver Bill
A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald Piano Vocal Guitar A tribute to ELLA FITZGERALD
A Walk To Remember – Only Hope
A whiter shade of pale – Procul Harum A whiter shade of pale – Procul Harum
AaRON U-turn Lili Piano free sheet music partitura partition noten
Ab Ovo – Joep Beving (Musescore File).mscz
Abba – Abba Gold – Greatest Hits free sheet music ABBA Gold Geatest Hits booksong sheet music
Abba – Chiquitita
Abba – Dancing Queen
Abba – Fernando
Abba – I Have A Dream
Abba – Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Abba – Mamma Mia
Abba – Slipping Through My Fingers
Abba – Thank You For The Music Abba-Thank-You-For-The-Music 1st page
ABBA – Thank You For The Music (Piano Vocal Guitar) ABBA – Thank You For The Music (Piano Vocal Guitar)
ABBA – Thank You For the Music (Piano vocal Guitar) (Musescore File).mscz
Abba – Thank You For The Music Piano & vocal Abba – Thank You For The Music-abba-satb
Abba – The Winner Takes It All
ABBA Dancing Queen Easy Piano Solo sheet music
ABBA Fernando (Piano Solo arr.) free sheet music partitura partition noten
ABBA Fernando (Piano Solo arr.).mscz
ABBA Greatest Hits sheet music pdf ABBA GREATEST HITS SHEET MUSIC BOOK
ABBA I Have A Dream free sheet music partitura partition noten
Abba The Very Best Vol 1 Easy Piano Hans Gunter Heumann Pop Classics For Piano free sheet music & scores pdf Abba The Very Best Vol 1 Easy Piano
Abba The Very Best Vol 2 Easy Piano Hans Gunter Heumann Pop Classics For Piano free sheet music & scores pdf Abba The Very Best Vol 2 Easy Piano
Abbey Lincoln Songbook free sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti Abbey Lincoln Songbook
Abbey Lincoln Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar Chords sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti Abbey Lincoln Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar Chords
Abdullah Ibrahim – The Piano World Of free sheet music & scores pdf Abdullah Ibrahim, The Piano World Of
Abdullah Ibrahim The African Piano Of Abdullah Ibrahim Vol 1 free sheet music download Abdullah Ibrahim The African Piano Of Abdullah Ibrahim Vol 1
Abdullah Ibrahim The Wedding (piano solo transcription sheet music, partition) free sheet music download
Abel Korzeniowski – Death Is My Heir (from Romeo and Juliet) free sheet music pdf
ABRSM Jazz Piano Pieces Grade 1 to 5 sheet music ABRSM Jazz Piano Pieces Grade 1 to 5 ABRSM Jazz Piano Pieces Grade 5ABRSM Jazz Piano Pieces Grade 5
ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces Grade 1 (2016) sheet music ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces Grade 1 (2016)
ABRSM Piano Scales, Arpeggios Grade 8 sheet music download
ABRSM Piano Scales, Arpeggios and broken chords Grade 1 sheet music download
ABRSM Piano Scales, Arpeggios and broken chords Grade 4 sheet music ABRSM Piano Scales, Arpeggios and broken chords Grade 4
ABRSM Piano Scales, Grade 2 A Guide for Students and Teachers ABRSM Piano Scales, Grade 2 A Guide for Students and Teachers
ABRSM – Time pieces for guitar vol. 1 sheet music download partitura partition
ABRSM – Time pieces for guitar vol. 2 free sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti
ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 1 free sheet music & scores pdf ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 1
ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 2 free sheet music & scores pdf ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 2
ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 3 free sheet music & scores pdf
ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 4 free sheet music & scores pdf
ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 5 free sheet music & scores pdf
ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 6 free sheet music & scores pdf
ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 7 free sheet music & scores pdf
ABRSM 2017 18 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 8 free sheet music & scores pdf
ABRSM 2021-2022 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 1 sheet music download
ABRSM 2021-2022 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 2 sheet music download
ABRSM 2021-2022 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 3 noten
ABRSM 2021-2022 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 5 partition
ABRSM 2021-2022 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 6 spartiti
ABRSM 2021-2022 Piano Exam Pieces Grade 8 partitura
ABRSM 2021-2022 Piano Exam Pieces Initial Grade free sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti partituras ABRSM 2021-2022 Piano Exam Pieces Initial Grade
ABRSM Aural Training In Practice Book 1 Grades 1 to 3 sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Aural Training In Practice Book 2 Grades 4 and 5 sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Discovering Music Theory (Complete) Grades 1 to 5 Workbook by Simon Rushby (2020 Exams) sheet music downloadpartitions gratuites Noten spartiti partituras ABRSM Discovering Music Theory (Complete) Grades 1 to 5 Workbook by Simon Rushby (2020 Exams) contents
ABRSM Erster Verlust Grade 4 ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces 2021 & 2022 free sheet music
ABRSM Etude In A Minor – Dmitry Kabalevsky ABRSM Grade 4 Piano Exam Pieces 2021 & 2022 free sheet music
ABRSM Grade 2 – Inter-City Stomp byChristopher Norton From Microjazz Collection (Sheet Music) free sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti
ABRSM Initial Grade Piano Exam Pieces 2023 2024 sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Minuet and Trio D 41 No 21 – Franz Schubert ABRSM Grade 4 Piano Exam Pieces 2021 & 2022 free sheet music
ABRSM More Music Theory Sample Papers Grade 5 For New Format sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Music Theory In Practice, Grade 1 (Eric Taylor) free sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti
ABRSM Music Theory In Practice, Grade 2 (Eric Taylor) free sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti
ABRSM Music Theory Past Papers Grade 1 2004 sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Music Theory Past Papers Grade 4 2016 sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Music Theory Past Papers Grade 5 2012 sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Music Theory Past Papers Grade 6 2013 sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Nikki Iles Danny Boy ABRSM Piano Exam Grade 8 2023 Jazz Piano arr. inspired by Bill Evans sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Nikki Iles Friends Book 1 Intermediate Jazz Pieces For Piano sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti ABRSM Nikki Iles Friends Book 1 Intermediate Jazz Pieces For Piano
ABRSM Nikki Iles Friends Book 2 Intermediate To Advanced Jazz Pieces For Piano sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti ABRSM Nikki Iles Friends Book 2 Intermediate To Advanced Jazz Pieces For Piano
ABRSM Nikki Iles The Elephant Parade ABRSM piano Exam sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Piano 2025-2026 Grade 8 C3 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square by Sherwin – Maschwitz sheet music partitura partition noten spartiti
ABRSM Piano Exam 2007-2008 Grade 3 free sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti
ABRSM Piano Exam 2015-16 Grade 3 free sheet music download
partitions gratuites Noten spartiti ABRSM Piano Exam 2015-16 Grade 3
sheet music library

It’s nice to meet you.

Sign up to receive our new posts in your inbox.

This field is required.

We don’t spam! Read our privacy policy for more info.