# " I'll Be Home for Christmas " – Herbie Hancock / Eliane Elias

Herbie Popnecker is a fictional character, who first appeared in Forbidden Worlds # 73 in December 1958, published by American Comics Group.

Herbie made several appearances in Forbidden Worlds, in issues # 73, # 94, # 110, # 114, and # 116 — the final two issues with Herbie featured on the cover.

Herbie also made a cameo appearance — albeit very much out of character — in Unknown Worlds # 20, published in 1961.

The Fat Fury was featured in even-numbered Herbie comics from # 8 to # 22.

Flaming Carrot Comics # 31 ( 1994 ) featured an appearance by Herbie ( words and pictures by Bob Burden ).

The first Herbie Archives came out in August 2008 ( ISBN 978-1-59307-987-1 ) and collects Herbie stories from Forbidden Worlds # 73, 94, 110, 114, 116, Unknown Worlds # 20, and Herbie # 1-5.

Early in their partnership, Paco gives Herbie the nickname " Ocho ", the Spanish word for the number 8 ; purportedly because the digits 5 and 3 in Herbie's racing number, 53, were combined to produce ' 8 ' ( 5 + 3 = 8 ) and possibly to rhyme with " Vocho ", the Beetle's name in Mexico.

George Edward Coleman ( born March 8, 1935 ) is an American hard bop saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.

* 8 June – Herbie Matthews ( born 1913 ), Australian Rules football player and coach for the South Melbourne Swans

In 2005 Dillon co-starred in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded and on March 11, 2006 hosted Saturday Night Live, in which he impersonated Greg Anderson and Rod Serling in sketches.

Other side projects included involvement with Alan Parker's band The Congregation ; Herbie Flowers ' contributions to Lou Reed's Transformer album ; and the involvement of Flowers, Morgan and Parker in sessions with Pete Atkin in March 1971, that later appeared on his Driving Through Mythical America album.

* " Herbie the Matchmaker " — original air date: 17 March 1982 ( also known as " The Love Bug ")

* " Herbie to the Rescue " — original air date: 24 March 1982

Popular modal standards include Davis's " All Blues " and " So What " ( both 1959 ), John Coltrane's " Impressions " ( 1963 ) and Herbie Hancock's " Maiden Voyage " ( 1965 ).

Some well-known soul jazz recordings are Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder ( 1963 ), Herbie Hancock's " Cantaloupe Island " ( 1964 ) ( which was popularized further when sampled by US3 on " Cantaloop ( Flip Fantasia )"), Horace Silver's " Song for My Father " ( 1964 ) ( quoted by Steely Dan in their " Rikki Don't Lose That Number "), Ramsey Lewis's " The In Crowd " ( a top-five hit in 1965 ), and Cannonball Adderley's " Mercy, Mercy, Mercy " ( 1966 ) ( also popularized further when covered as a top 40 pop song by The Buckinghams ).

He played a prominent role in many landmark albums under other leaders for the label including most of Horace Silver's swinging and soulful Song For My Father, Herbie Hancock's dark and densely orchestrated The Prisoner, Lee Morgan's hit album The Sidewinder and ' out ' albums with pianist Andrew Hill ( Black Fire 1963 and Point of Departure, 1964 ) and drummer Pete La Roca ( Basra, 1965 ).

Maiden Voyage is the fifth album led by jazz musician Herbie Hancock, and was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on May 17, 1965 for Blue Note Records.

Herbie comics received the Alley Award for Best Humor Comic Book 1964 and 1965.

In the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, one of the new " young lions " was Christian McBride ( born 1972 ), who has performed with a range of veterans ranging from McCoy Tyner to fusion gurus Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, and who has released albums such as 2003's Vertical Vision.

The gravi-kora has been adopted by kora players such as Daniel Berkman, Jacques Burtin, Le Chant de la Forêt ( The Song of the Forest ), suite for kora, gravi-kora, flute and viola, and Foday Musa Suso, who featured it in recordings with jazz innovator Herbie Hancock, with his band Mandingo, and on Suso's New World Power album.

* Foday Musa Suso ( Gambia ), recorded with Herbie Hancock

Top musicians who played on Nirvana sessions include: Lesley Duncan, Herbie Flowers, Billy Bremner ( later of Rockpile / Dave Edmunds fame ), Luther Grosvenor, Clem Cattini and the full lineup of rock band Spooky Tooth, Pete Kelly ( Keyboards ) who also co-wrote ' Modus Operandi ' on the ' Local Anaesthetic ' album.

* Nirvana ( Herbie Mann and the Bill Evans Trio album ), 1962

* Surprises ( Herbie Mann album ), 1976 by Cissy Houston

*" Hijack " ( song ), a 1975 song by Herbie Mann

The first women's unit was founded on the Shankill Road by Wendy " Bucket " Millar ( b. 1944 ), whose sons Herbie and James " Sham " Millar would later become prominent UDA members.

* Herbie Hancock ( 1971 / 88 / 97 / 98, 2002 / 10 ),

** Doug Doctor, Jay Newland, Rob Griffin ( engineers / mixers ), Jason Olaine ( producer ), Michael Brecker ( producer & artist ), Herbie Hancock & Roy Hargrove for Directions in Music

John Scofield ( born December 26, 1951, Dayton, Ohio ), often referred to as " Sco ", is an American jazz-rock guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, George Duke, Jaco Pastorius, John Mayer, and many other well-known artists.

Herbie ( Canada ), Overby ( Los Angeles, late 1960s ), Flywheel, Private Snoops, The Jeep, and Clem ( Canada ) are alternative names.

* The Prisoner ( album ), a 1969 album by Herbie Hancock

The movie follows the adventures of Herbie, Herbie's driver Jim Douglas ( Dean Jones ), and Jim's love interest, Carole Bennett ( Michele Lee ).

The first instance is on the brake pedals during the first scene where Herbie takes control with Jim inside ( on the freeway / when Herbie runs into Thorndyke's Rolls Royce ), and in fact it is shown in all the future scenes when Jim is braking.

The first buyers of the new system were Peter Gabriel, Richard James Burgess of Landscape ( who demonstrated it to many British musicians and on BBC TV's Tomorrow's World ), Iva Davies of Icehouse, Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush, In the US, Jackson demonstrated the Series I sampler for a year before selling units to Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder in 1980 for US $ 27, 500 each.

* Herbie Hancock, Round Midnight ( soundtrack ), 1986

Famous jazz musicians originally from Illinois include Miles Davis ( from Alton, Illinois near St. Louis ), Benny Goodman, Ramsey Lewis, and Herbie Hancock.

Noted for outstanding charity work, Gord Martineau has been associated with the Kidney Foundation, the Kid's Helpline, the Fred Victor Centre, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Ireland Fund and most notably, the Herbie Fund where he has personally escorted children in need of life-saving surgery from countries as far away as the Philippines to superlative care at the Hospital for Sick Children.

Though boogaloo did not become mainstream nationwide until later in the decade, two early Top 20 hits came in 1963: Mongo Santamaría's performance of the Herbie Hancock piece Watermelon Man and Ray Barretto's El Watusi.

The James Taylor Quartet's first single, " Blow-Up " ( a funked up version of Herbie Hancock's main theme from the seminal 1960s film of the same name ), was released in 1987 on the Re Elect The President label, which would later become the Acid Jazz label.

Deriving some of his powers from genetics and some from magical lollipops from " the Unknown ," Herbie can talk to animals ( who know him by name ), fly ( by walking on air ), become invisible, and ( once he got his own title ), travel through time.

* Invisibility — early on, Herbie could become invisible, but stopped using that power by the third Herbie issue

They have now become academic themselves and often hold key influential roles in the music industry ( see Patrice Rushen, Herbie Hancock, Dave Grusin, Bob James ).