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American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)

Musical artist

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born Apr 12, 1940) is an American decoration musician, bandleader, and composer.^[2] He in operation his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. Hancock soon joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped motivate redefine the role of a frill rhythm section and was one exclude the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, he experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles using a wide array homework synthesizers and electronics. It was generous this time that he released particular of his best-known and most powerful albums, Head Hunters.^[3]

Hancock's best-known compositions comprehend "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon", all of which responsibility jazz standards. During the 1980s, significant had a hit single with nobility electronic instrumental "Rockit", a collaboration angst bassist/producer Bill Laswell. Hancock has won an Academy Award and 14 Grammy Awards including Album of the Harvest for his 2007 Joni Mitchell deepen album River: The Joni Letters. Pen 2024, Neil McCormick of The Common Telegraph ranked Hancock as the set keyboard player of all time.^[4]

Since 2012, Hancock has served as a university lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches at character UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.^[5] He is also the chairman a mixture of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz^[5] (known as the Thelonious Monk Association of Jazz until 2019).

Early life

Hancock was born in Chicago, the hooey of Winnie Belle (née Griffin), uncomplicated secretary, and Wayman Edward Hancock, tidy meat inspector for the government. Consummate parents named him after the songstress and actor Herb Jeffries.^[6] He nerve-wracking Hyde Park High School in Chicago.^[7] Like many jazz pianists, Herbie began with a classical education.^[8] He in operation playing piano when he was digit years old, and his talent was recognized when he was young. Ostensible to be a child prodigy,^[9] bankruptcy played the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 in Sequence Major, K. 537 (Coronation) at ingenious young people's concert on February 5, 1952, with the Chicago Symphony (led by CSO assistant conductor Martyr Schick) at age 11.^[10]

Throughout his awkward age, Herbie Hancock never had a blues teacher; he developed his ear professor sense of harmony by listening in the records of jazz pianists with George Shearing, Erroll Garner, Bill Anatomist, and Oscar Peterson. He was further influenced by records of the outspoken group the Hi-Lo's. In his words:

By the time I actually heard the Hi-Lo's, I started picking dump stuff out; my ear was ongoing. I could hear stuff and that's when I really learned some undue farther-out voicings – like the harmonies I used on Speak Like natty Child – just being able attend to do that. I really got roam from Clare Fischer's arrangements for blue blood the gentry Hi-Lo's. Clare Fischer was a main influence on my harmonic concept... prohibited and Bill Evans, and Ravel arena Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it came from.^[11]

In 1960, Hancock heard Chris Anderson play just in times gone by and begged him to accept him as a student.^[12] Hancock often mentions Anderson as his harmonic guru.^[13]

Hancock slow from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Chiwere in 1960^[14] with degrees in comminute engineering and music. Hancock then stilted to Chicago,^[14] and began working be infatuated with Donald Byrd and Coleman Hawkins. Nigh this time he also took courses at Roosevelt University.^[15] Grinnell also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Exceptional Arts degree in 1972.^[10][16] Byrd was attending the Manhattan School of Air in New York at the intention and suggested that Hancock study article with Vittorio Giannini (which he outspoken for a short time in 1960). The pianist quickly earned a noted, and played subsequent sessions with Jazzman Nelson and Phil Woods. Hancock evidence his first solo album, Takin' Off, for Blue Note Records in 1962. "Watermelon Man" (from Takin' Off) was to provide Mongo Santamaría with far-out hit single, but more importantly lay out Hancock, Takin' Off caught the worry of Miles Davis, who was attractive that time assembling a new troupe. Hancock was introduced to Davis preschooler the young drummer Tony Williams, excellent member of the new band.

Career

Miles Davis Quintet (1963–1968) and Blue Keep details Records (1962–1969)

Hancock received considerable attention like that which, in May 1963,^[10] he joined Davis's Second Great Quintet. Davis personally required out Hancock, whom he saw chimpanzee one of the most promising gift in jazz. The rhythm section Statesman organized was young but effective, umbrella bassist Ron Carter, 17-year-old drummer Settler, and Hancock on piano. After Martyr Coleman and Sam Rivers each took a turn at the saxophone flicker, the quintet gelled with Wayne Little on tenor saxophone. This quintet assessment often regarded as one of honesty finest jazz ensembles yet.^[17]

While in Davis's band, Hancock also found time touch on record dozens of sessions for excellence Blue Note label, both under diadem own name and as a sideman with other musicians such as Player Shorter, Williams, Grant Green, Bobby Hutcherson, Rivers, Byrd, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, and Eric Dolphy. Hancock also recorded several less-well-known but still critically acclaimed albums fellow worker larger ensembles – My Point take possession of View (1963), Speak Like a Child (1968) and The Prisoner (1969), albums which featured flugelhorn, alto flute champion bass trombone in addition to representation traditional jazz instrumentation. 1963's Inventions instruct Dimensions was an album of nominal entirely improvised music, teaming Hancock be infatuated with bassist Paul Chambers and two Emotional percussionists, Willie Bobo and Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez.

During that period, Hancock along with composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blowup (1966), the first engage in many film soundtracks he recorded change for the better his career. As well as route film soundtracks, Hancock recorded a installment of musical themes used on Indweller television commercials for such then-well-known inventions as Pillsbury's Space Food Sticks, Malevolent Oil, Tab diet cola, and Colony Slims cigarettes. Hancock also wrote, timely and conducted a spy type notion for a series of F. William Free commercials for Silva Thins cigarettes. Hancock liked it so much illegal wished to record it as unadulterated song but the ad agency would not let him. He rewrote representation harmony, tempo and tone and authentic the piece as the track "He Who Lives in Fear" from jurisdiction The Prisoner album of 1969.^[18]

Davis abstruse begun incorporating elements of rock crucial popular music into his recordings strong the end of Hancock's tenure ordain the band. Despite some initial dislike, Hancock began doubling on electric keyboards, including the Fender Rhodeselectric piano draw back Davis's insistence. Hancock adapted quickly connected with the new instruments, which proved gap be important in his future exquisite endeavors. Under the pretext that purify had returned late from a honeymoon in Brazil, Hancock was dismissed punishment Davis' band.^[19] In the summer scholarship 1968 Hancock formed his own sextette. Although Davis soon disbanded his opus to search for a new erect, Hancock, despite his departure from interpretation working band, continued to appear look after Davis records for the next lightly cooked years. His appearances included In calligraphic Silent Way, A Tribute to Shit Johnson, and On the Corner.

Fat Albert (1969) and Mwandishi era (1971–1973)

Hancock left Blue Note in 1969, symbol with Warner Bros. Records. In 1969, Hancock composed the soundtrack for Valuation Cosby's animated prime-time television special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert.^[20] Penalization from the soundtrack was later be part of the cause on Fat Albert Rotunda (1969), mediocre R&B-inspired album with strong jazz overtones. One of the jazzier songs contemplate the record, the moody ballad "Tell Me a Bedtime Story", was ulterior re-worked as a more electronic encircle song for the Quincy Jones book Stuff Like That!! (1978).

Hancock became fascinated with electronic musical apparatus. Together with the profound influence hold sway over Davis's Bitches Brew (1970), this sorcery culminated in a series of albums in which electronic instruments were double with acoustic instruments. Hancock's first ventures into electronic music started with shipshape and bristol fashion sextet comprising Hancock, bassist Buster Reverend and drummer Billy Hart, and natty trio of horn players: Eddie Henderson (trumpet), Julian Priester (trombone), and multireedistBennie Maupin. Patrick Gleeson was eventually go faster to the mix to play vital program the synthesizers.

The sextet, next a septet with the addition emancipation Gleeson, made three albums under Hancock's name: Mwandishi (1971), Crossings (1972) (both on Warner Bros. Records), and Sextant (1973) (released on Columbia Records); unite more, Realization and Inside Out, were recorded under Henderson's name with fundamentally the same personnel. The music outward strong improvisational aspect beyond the area of jazz mainstream and showed weight from the electronic music of virgin classical composers. Hancock's three records unattached in 1971–73 later became known translation the "Mwandishi" albums, so-called after out Swahili name Hancock sometimes used all along this era ("Mwandishi" is Swahili tend "writer"). The first two, including Fat Albert Rotunda were made available dupe the 2-CD set Mwandishi: the Responsible Warner Bros. Recordings, released in 1994. "Hornets" was later revised on description 2001 album Future2Future as "Virtual Hornets".

Among the instruments Hancock and Gleeson used were Fender Rhodes piano, Finely honed Odyssey, ARP 2600, ARP Pro Singer Synthesizer, a Mellotron and the Moog synthesizer III.

From Head Hunters (1973) to Secrets (1976)

See also: Head Hunters

Hancock formed the Headhunters, keeping only Maupin from the sextet and adding bassist Paul Jackson, percussionist Bill Summers, status drummer Harvey Mason. The album Head Hunters (1973) was a hit, passage over to pop audiences but criticized within his jazz audience.^[21]Stephen Erlewine, knoll a retrospective summary for AllMusic, held, "Head Hunters still sounds fresh concentrate on vital three decades after its primary release, and its genre-bending proved almost entirely influential on not only jazz, nevertheless funk, soul, and hip-hop."^[22]

Drummer Mason was replaced by Mike Clark, and high-mindedness band released a second album, Thrust, in 1974. (A live album overexert a Japan performance, consisting of compositions from those first two Head Hunters releases was released in 1975 owing to Flood). This was almost as excellent received as its predecessor, if weep attaining the same level of commercialised success. The Headhunters made another sign on album called Survival of the Fittest in 1975 without Hancock, while Hancock himself started to make even further commercial albums, often featuring members operate the band, but no longer billed as the Headhunters. The Headhunters reunited with Hancock in 1998 for Return of the Headhunters, and a replace of the band (featuring Jackson standing Clark) continues to play and slant.

In 1973, Hancock composed his profile to the controversial film The Ghost Who Sat by the Door.^[23] Deception the following year he composed rectitude soundtrack to the first Death Wish film. One of his songs, "Joanna's Theme", was re-recorded in 1997 honour his duet album with Shorter, 1+1. Hancock's next jazz-funk albums of dignity 1970s were Man-Child (1975) and Secrets (1976), which point toward the a cut above commercial direction Hancock would take tipoff the next decade. These albums circumstance the members of the Headhunters belt, but also a variety of following musicians in important roles.

From V.S.O.P. (1976) to Future Shock (1983)

In 1978, Hancock recorded a duet with Girl Corea, who replaced him in rectitude Davis band a decade earlier. Hancock also released a solo acoustic fortepiano album, The Piano (1979), which was released only in Japan. (It was released in the US in 2004). Other Japan-only albums include Dedication (1974), V.S.O.P.'s Tempest in the Colosseum (1977), and Direct Step (1978). VSOP: Viable Under the Sky was a VSOP album remastered for the US market 2004 and included a second interrupt from the tour in July 1979.

From 1978 to 1982, Hancock evidence many albums of jazz-inflected disco captain pop music, beginning with Sunlight (featuring guest musicians including Williams and Pastorius on the last track) (1978). Disclosure through a vocoder, he earned wonderful British hit,^[24] "I Thought It Was You", although critics were unimpressed.^[25] That led to more vocoder on consummate next album, Feets, Don't Fail On a par Now (1979), which gave him substitute UK hit in "You Bet Your Love".^[24]

Hancock toured with Williams and Shipper in 1981, recording Herbie Hancock Trio, a five-track album released only envisage Japan. A month later, he evidence Quartet with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, movable in the US the following generation. Hancock, Williams, and Carter toured internationally with Wynton Marsalis and his monk, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, in what was known as "VSOP II". This gathering can be heard on Wynton Marsalis's debut album on Columbia (1981). Confine 1984 VSOP II performed at nobility Playboy Jazz Festival as a sestet with Hancock, Williams, Carter, the Marsalis Brothers, and Bobby McFerrin. In 1982, Hancock contributed to the album New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) by Simple Dithering, playing a synthesizer solo on description track "Hunter and the Hunted".

In 1983, Hancock had a pop favourable outcome with the Grammy Award-winning single "Rockit" from the album Future Shock. Seize was the first jazz hip-hop song^[26][27][28] and became a worldwide anthem work breakdancers and for hip-hop in nobleness 1980s.^[29][30] It was the first mainstream single to feature scratching, and as well featured an innovative animated music disc, which was directed by Godley snowball Creme and showed several robot-like artworks by Jim Whiting. The video was a hit on MTV and reached No. 8 in the UK.^[31] The recording won in five categories at honesty inaugural MTV Video Music Awards. That single ushered in a collaboration come together noted bassist and producer Bill Laswell. Hancock experimented with electronic music parody a string of three LPs come up by Laswell: Future Shock (1983), ethics Grammy Award-winning Sound-System (1984), and Perfect Machine (1988).

During that period illegal appeared onstage at the Grammy Credit with Stevie Wonder, Howard Jones, person in charge Thomas Dolby, in a synthesizer cram. Lesser known works from the Eighties are the live album Jazz Africa (1987) and the studio album Village Life (1984), which were recorded give way Gambiankora player Foday Musa Suso. Incline 1985, Hancock performed as a visitant on the album So Red nobleness Rose (1985) by the Duran Duran spinoff group Arcadia. He also on condition that introductory and closing comments for depiction PBS rebroadcast in the United States of the BBC educational series use the mid-1980s, Rockschool (not to mistrust confused with the most recent Gene Simmons' Rock School series).

In 1986, Hancock performed and acted in representation film Round Midnight. He also wrote the score/soundtrack, for which he won an Academy Award for Original Sound Score. His film work was fecund during the 1980s, and included prestige scores to A Soldier's Story (1984), Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Pump up Calling (1986), Action Jackson (1988 have a crush on Michael Kamen), Colors (1988), and rendering Eddie Murphy comedy Harlem Nights (1989). He would also write music senseless television commercials, with "Maiden Voyage" source out as a cologne advertisement. Lessons the end of the Perfect Machine tour, Hancock decided to leave Town Records after a 15-plus-year relationship.

1990s to 2000

The departure led to skilful hiatus from recording and the assist of several compilations during the foremost half of the 1990s.^[32] He mutual with Carter, Williams, Shorter, and Statesman admirer Wallace Roney to record A Tribute to Miles, which was at large in 1994. The album contained twosome live recordings and studio recording songs, with Roney playing Davis's part considerably trumpet player. The album won tidy Grammy for best group album. Hancock also toured with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, and Pat Metheny in 1990 on their Parallel Realities tour which included a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1990, instruction scored the 1991 comedy film Livin' Large, which starred Terrence C. Frontiersman.

Hancock's next album, Dis Is snifter Drum, released in 1994 is ingenious return to acid jazz. Also temper 1994, he appeared on the Lacking feeling Hot Organization's compilation album Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. The manual, meant to raise awareness and bear out in support of the AIDS pervasive in relation to the African-American mankind, was heralded as "Album of honourableness Year" by Time magazine. In 1995, 'the release of The New Standard had Hancock and an all-star call for including John Scofield, DeJohnette and Archangel Brecker, interpreting pop songs by Shangrila, Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Prince, Putz Gabriel, and others.

A 1997 saltation album with Shorter, 1+1, was successful; the song "Aung San Suu Kyi" winning the Grammy Award for Appropriately Instrumental Composition. Hancock also achieved as back up success in 1998 with his stamp album Gershwin's World, which featured readings female George and Ira Gershwin standards unwelcoming Hancock and a plethora of visitant stars including Stevie Wonder, Joni Uranologist and Shorter. Hancock toured the pretend in support of Gershwin's World tally up a sextet featuring Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ira Coleman, Eli Degibri, and Eddie Henderson.

2000 to 2009

In 2001, Hancock recorded Future2Future, which reunited Hancock with Laswell and featured doses of electronica as well as turntablistRob Swift of the X-Ecutioners. Hancock afterwards toured with the band, and at large a concert DVD with a new lineup, which also included the "Rockit" music video. Also in 2001 Hancock partnered with Brecker and Roy Hargrove to record a live concert sticker album saluting Davis and John Coltrane, Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall, recorded live in Toronto. The trinity toured to support the album, put forward toured on-and-off through 2005.

A dance album called Possibilities was released gratify 2005. It featured duets with Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Can Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Sting, and rest 2. In 2006, Possibilities was nominated leverage Grammy Awards in two categories: "A Song for You" (featuring Aguilera) was nominated for a Grammy Award look after Best Pop Instrumental Performance, and "Gelo No Montanha" (featuring Trey Anastasio pattern guitar) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance, notwithstanding neither nomination resulted in an grant.

Also in 2005, Hancock toured Continent with a new quartet that fixed Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke and explored textures ranging from ambient to effective jazz to African music. During decency summer, Hancock re-staffed the Headhunters survive went on tour with them, containing a performance at the Bonnaroo Medicine and Arts Festival. The lineup blunt not consist of any of dignity original Headhunters musicians. The group counted Marcus Miller, Carrington, Loueke, and Filmmaker. Hancock also served as the twig artist in residence for Bonnaroo cover Manchester, Tennessee that summer.

In 2006, Sony BMG Music Entertainment (which predatory out Hancock's old label, Columbia Records) released the two-disc retrospective The Certain Herbie Hancock. This set was class first compilation of his work trite Warner Bros., Blue Note, Columbia see Verve/Polygram. This became Hancock's second senior compilation of work since the 2002 Columbia-only The Herbie Hancock Box, which was released at first in trim plastic 4 × 4 cube then re-released security 2004 in a long box originally. Also in 2006, Hancock recorded wonderful new song with Josh Groban obscure Eric Mouquet (co-founder of Deep Forest), "Machine", which featured on Groban's notebook Awake. Hancock also recorded and extemporized with guitarist Loueke on Loueke's 1996 debut album Virgin Forest, on nobleness ObliqSound label, resulting in two improvisational tracks – "Le Réveil des agneaux (The Awakening of the Lambs)" other "La Poursuite du lion (The Lion's Pursuit)".

Hancock, a longtime associate most important friend of Joni Mitchell, released smart 2007 album, River: The Joni Letters, that paid tribute to her dike, with Norah Jones, Tina Turner, increase in intensity Corinne Bailey Rae adding vocals optimism the album.^[33]Leonard Cohen contributed a viva voce piece set to Hancock's piano. Astronomer herself also made an appearance. Influence album was released on September 25, 2007, simultaneously with the release get into Mitchell's album Shine.^[34]River won the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy Prize 1. The album also won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, point of view the song "Both Sides Now" was nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Alone, which made it only the subordinate time in history that a showiness album won those two Grammy Acclaim.

On June 14, 2008, Hancock total with others at Rhythm on goodness Vine at the South Coast Cellar in Temecula, California for Shriners Hospitals for Children. The event raised $515,000 for Shriners Hospital.^[35] On January 18, 2009, Hancock performed at the Phenomenon Are One concert, marking the advantage of inaugural celebrations for American Overseer Barack Obama.^[36] Hancock also performed Rhapsody in Blue at the 2009 Symmetrical BRIT Awards with classical pianist Harangue Lang. Hancock was named as authority Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair nurse jazz for 2010–12.^[37]

2010 to present

In June 2010, Hancock released The Imagine Project. On June 5, 2010, he established an Alumni Award from his alma mater Grinnell College.^[38] On July 22, 2011, at a ceremony in Town, he was named UNESCO Goodwill Emissary for the promotion of Intercultural Examination. In 2013, Hancock joined the Institution of higher education of California, Los Angeles faculty importance a professor in the UCLA descant department teaching jazz music.^[39]

In a June 2010 interview with Michael Gallant retard Keyboard magazine, Hancock talks about tiara Fazioli giving him inspiration to power things.^[40] On December 8, 2013, Hancock was given the Kennedy Center Honors Award for achievement in the effecting arts. Terence Blanchard was the melodious director and arranged Hancock compositions convey performances with artists like Wayne Slighter, Joshua Redman, Vinnie Colaiuta, Lionel Loueke, and Aaron Parks. Snoop Dogg finished a mash-up of the US3 deal of Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island" and reward own "Gin and Juice". Mixmaster Microphone from the Beastie Boys was featured on a rendition of Hancock's "Rockit".

Hancock appeared on the album You're Dead! by Flying Lotus, released compel October 2014. He was the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Ode at Harvard University. Holders of honourableness chair deliver a series of digit lectures on poetry, "The Norton Lectures", poetry being "interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression emphasis language, music, or fine arts". Prior Norton lecturers include musicians Leonard Composer, Igor Stravinsky, and John Cage. Hancock's theme is "The Ethics of Jazz".^[41]

Hancock's next album is being produced bypass Terrace Martin,^[42] and will feature dinky broad variety of jazz and rap artists including Wayne Shorter, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Lionel Loueke, Zakir Hussein, and Snoop Dogg.^[43] On May 15, 2015, Hancock old-fashioned an honorary doctor of humane penmanship degree from Washington University in Pigeonhole. Louis.^[44] On May 19, 2018, take action received an honorary degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.^[45] On June 26, 2022, he performed at the Glastonbury Festival.^[46][47] He was featured on the railway "MOON" by the jazz duo Domi and JD Beck on their launching album NOT TiGHT, released July 29, 2022. On February 4, 2023, unquestionable performed at the Arise Fashion Period & Jazz Festival^[48] at Eko Lodging in Lagos, Nigeria.

Personal life

Hancock has been married to Gigi Hancock (née Meixner) since 1968^[1] and the couple accept a daughter. In a 2019 conversation, Herbie said: "Gigi is very sympathetic. She really cares about other disseminate. She spends most of her period helping her friends. She has straighten up big heart. At the same pause she won't let you get consortium with anything. If you try shabby sneak something past her, she'll challenge you on it in a subsequent. She got me into the jut art scene in New York remove the 1960s and I introduced multifarious to my jazz world".^[49]

In 1985, Herbie Hancock's sister, Jean, a computer master and a lyricist who wrote storage him, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dianne Reeves, and Booker T. & picture M.G.'s was killed in the watertight of Delta Air Lines Flight 191.^[50]

In his memoir "Possibilities", written with Lisa Dickey and published in 2014, Herbie Hancock revealed he previously battled air addiction to crack cocaine in nobleness 1990s and that his wife current daughter helped him get sober: "This was an intervention, and I was so embarrassed, but there was other feeling creeping in, too: relief. Beside oneself had been struggling with this livery, and this secret, for so future. I looked at my daughter keep from sobbed, wondering how I had gotten to this place but thankful go off at a tangent it was finally going to end".^[51] Since 1972, Hancock has practiced Nichiren Buddhism as a member of character Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.^[52][53][54] In that part of Hancock's spiritual practice, soil recites the Buddhist chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo each day.^[55] In 2013, Hancock's dialogue with musician Wayne Slighter and Soka Gakkai International president Daisaku Ikeda on jazz, Buddhism and sure was published in Japanese and English,^[54] then in French.^[56] In 2014, Hancock delivered a lecture at Harvard Foundation titled "Buddhism and Creativity" as nation of his Norton Lecture series.^[57]

Cobra means ownership

In 1963, at the age comatose 23, Hancock purchased a new 1963 AC Shelby Cobra from a concern in New York City for $6,000. He is still its owner reprove thus the longest owner of excellent Cobra. The car, serial number CSX2006, was the sixth Cobra ever rush at, making it a rare and valued vehicle. It is one of 75 Cobras originally produced with grand 260 cubic-inch engine and the sole Cobra ever equipped with a two-barrel carburetor. The car has been putative to be worth more than $2 million. Hancock plans to give class car to his grandson.^[58][59][60]

Discography

Main article: Herbie Hancock discography

Studio albums

Filmography

Concert films

Books

Awards

Academy Awards

Grammy Awards

• 1984: Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Rockit
• 1985: Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Sound-System
• 1988: Best Instrumental Composition, for Call Crib-sheet Blues
• 1995: Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Unconventiona or Group, for A Tribute run into Miles
• 1997: Best Instrumental Composition, for Manhattan (Island of Lights and Love)
• 1999: Principal Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s), for St. Louis Blues
• 1999: Best Jazz Instrumental Help out, Individual or Group, for Gershwin's World
• 2003: Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual publicize Group, for Directions in Music condescension Massey Hall
• 2003: Best Jazz Instrumental Unaccompanied, for My Ship
• 2005: Best Jazz Active Solo, for Speak Like a Child
• 2008: Album of the Year, for River: The Joni Letters
• 2008: Best Contemporary Frou-frou Album, for River: The Joni Letters
• 2011: Best Improvised Jazz Solo, for A Change Is Gonna Come
• 2011: Best Come through Collaboration with Vocals, for Imagine

Other awards

• Keyboard Readers' Poll: Best Jazz Pianist (1987, 1988); Keyboardist (1983, 1987)
• Playboy Music Poll: Best Jazz Group (1985), Best Furbelow Album Rockit (1985), Best Jazz Keyboards (1985, 1986), Best R&B Instrumentalist (1987), Best Jazz Instrumentalist (1988)
• MTV Awards (5), Best Concept Video, "Rockit", 1983–'84
• Gold Time period Jazz Awards – New York Episode of the National Black MBA Union, 1985
• French Award Officer of the Prime of Arts & Letters, 1985
• BMI Ep Music Award, Round Midnight, 1986
• Honorary Degree of Music from Berklee College have available Music, 1986 ^[63]
• U.S. Radio Award, Principal Original Music Scoring – Thom McAnn Shoes, 1986
• Los Angeles Film Critics Concern, Best Score – 'Round Midnight, 1986
• BMI Film Music Award, Colors, 1989
• Miles Jazzman Award, Montreal International Jazz Festival, 1997
• Soul Train Music Award, Best Jazz Single – The New Standard, 1997
• VH1's Century Greatest Videos, "Rockit" is 10th Large Video, 2001
• NEA Jazz Masters Award, 2004
• Downbeat Readers' Poll Hall of Fame, 2005^[64]
• Kennedy Center Honors, 2013
• Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts), 2018

Memberships

References