Herbie Hancock: ‘I like to discover new rules so I can break them’

The great jazz pianist on his years in Miles Davis’s legendary quintet, his debt to Buddhism and why he still has the urge to innovateHerbie Hancock, now 77, started to play the piano 70 years ago in Chicago. Considered a prodigy, aged 11 he performed Mozart concertos with the city’s symphony orchestra. A decade after that he was invited to join Miles Davis, forming part of his “second great quintet” that defined jazz’s post-bop era. In the 1970s Hancock had several