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Obituary Assignment

Herbie Hancock the modern music icon dies at 75

The music icon who played with the late Miles Davis musician dies from natural causes at 75.

Herbie Hancock was a child prodigy who played the Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at only 11. Hancock started playing jazz in high school and was influenced by the late Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. Along with music he developed a love for science and doubled majored in music and electrical engineering at Grinnell College.
In 1960 a trumpeter named Donald Byrd observed Hancock’s talent, Hancock was only 20 then. Byrd also connected Hancock to Alfred Lion of the Blue Note Records and then two years later after working alongside