Herbie Hancock was barely 23 and awestruck when he joined the Miles Davis Quintet in 1963. He figured the best he could do was make Davis feel comfortable, so for two months he followed blueprints devised by the trumpeter's former pianists, Red Garland, Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans.
"What I didn't realise was that inside I was getting very frustrated," says Hancock, whose quartet performs opening night at the Detroit International Jazz Festival on Friday.
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