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Copyright © 2014 by Herbert J. Hancock
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Photograph credits
Image 6, Image 7: Photographs by Francis Wolff © Mosaic Images | Image 8: © Raymond Ross Archives / CSTIMAGES | Image 10: © Lisl Steiner | Image 11: Tom Copi / Michael Ochs Archive / Getty Images | Image 12, Image 20: Roberto Rabanne | Image 13: Photo by Kurt Wahlner, originally appeared in Softalk Magazine | Image 14, Image 15: © Kaz Tsuruta | Image 16: © Roger Ressmeyer / Corbis | Image 17: © Bettmann / Corbis | Image 18: © Lynn Goldsmith / Corbis | Image 19: Herb Greene | Image 21, Image 22: Sam Emerson | Image 23: © Etienne George / Sygma / Corbis | Image 25: © Corbis | Image 26: © Newport Jazz Festival / Ayano Hisa | Image 27, Image 31: © Elisa K. Morris / Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz | Image 28: Photo: Keystone / Laurent Gillieron | Image 29: © Mike Blake / Reuters / Corbis | Image 32, Image 33: Courtesy of Jessica Hancock | Image 34: Photo by Nathan East | Other photographs courtesy of Herbie Hancock
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hancock, Herbie, 1940– author.
Herbie Hancock : possibilities / Herbie Hancock with Lisa Dickey.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-101-61454-9
1. Hancock, Herbie, 1940- 2. Jazz musicians—United States—Biography. I. Dickey, Lisa, author. II. Title.
ML417.H23A3 2014
781.65092—dc23
[B] 2014013964
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