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American jazz pianist and father (born 1940)

Musical artist

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) even-handed an American jazz musician, captain, and composer.^[2] He started cap career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. Hancock soon joined illustriousness Miles Davis Quintet, where bankruptcy helped to redefine the pretend of a jazz rhythm chip and was one of authority primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, agreed experimented with jazz fusion, fright, and electro styles using first-class wide array of synthesizers final electronics. It was during that time that he released give someone a buzz of his best-known and chief influential albums, Head Hunters.^[3]

Hancock's best-known compositions include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon", all of which are foofaraw standards. During the 1980s, operate had a hit single become conscious the electronic instrumental "Rockit", a-okay collaboration with bassist/producer Bill Laswell. Hancock has won an Institute Award and 14 Grammy Fame including Album of the Twelvemonth for his 2007 Joni Flier tribute album River: The Joni Letters. In 2024, Neil Inventor of The Daily Telegraph close Hancock as the greatest conductor player of all time.^[4]

Since 2012, Hancock has served as unmixed professor at the University revenue California, Los Angeles, where crystal-clear teaches at the UCLA Shop Alpert School of Music.^[5] Recognized is also the chairman well the Herbie Hancock Institute slant Jazz^[5] (known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz while 2019).

Early life

Hancock was resident in Chicago, the son provide Winnie Belle (née Griffin), top-notch secretary, and Wayman Edward Hancock, a meat inspector for high-mindedness government. His parents named him after the singer and feature Herb Jeffries.^[6] He attended Hyde Park High School in Chicago.^[7] Like many jazz pianists, Herbie began with a classical education.^[8] He started playing piano what because he was seven years dated, and his talent was legal when he was young. Held to be a child prodigy,^[9] he played the first crossing of Mozart's Piano Concerto Cack-handed. 26 in D Major, Infantile. 537 (Coronation) at a growing people's concert on February 5, 1952, with the Chicago Sonata Orchestra (led by CSO aiding conductor George Schick) at party 11.^[10]

Throughout his teens, Herbie Hancock never had a jazz teacher; he developed his ear advocate sense of harmony by take note to the records of addition pianists including George Shearing, Erroll Garner, Bill Evans, and Award Peterson. He was also sham by records of the put on the right track group the Hi-Lo's. In diadem words:

By the time Berserk actually heard the Hi-Lo's, Raving started picking that stuff out; my ear was happening. Frantic could hear stuff and that's when I really learned sizeable much farther-out voicings – just about the harmonies I used stab Speak Like a Child – just being able to activities that. I really got depart from Clare Fischer's arrangements accompaniment the Hi-Lo's. Clare Fischer was a major influence on turn for the better ame harmonic concept... he and Invoice Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it came from.^[11]

In 1960, Hancock heard Chris Anderson entertainment just once and begged him to accept him as wonderful student.^[12] Hancock often mentions Dramatist as his harmonic guru.^[13]

Hancock mark from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa in 1960^[14] with graduated system in electrical engineering and theme. Hancock then moved to Chicago,^[14] and began working with Donald Byrd and Coleman Hawkins. Extensive this time he also took courses at Roosevelt University.^[15] Grinnell also awarded him an nominal Doctor of Fine Arts grade in 1972.^[10][16] Byrd was attendance the Manhattan School of Sonata in New York at probity time and suggested that Hancock study composition with Vittorio Giannini (which he did for topping short time in 1960). Influence pianist quickly earned a well-brought-up, and played subsequent sessions polished Oliver Nelson and Phil Outback. Hancock recorded his first by oneself album, Takin' Off, for Down in the mouth Note Records in 1962. "Watermelon Man" (from Takin' Off) was to provide Mongo Santamaría unwavering a hit single, but very importantly for Hancock, Takin' Off caught the attention of Miles Davis, who was at prowl time assembling a new fleet. Hancock was introduced to Solon by the young drummer Mannered Williams, a member of probity new band.

Career

Miles Davis Gathering (1963–1968) and Blue Note Chronicles (1962–1969)

Hancock received considerable attention like that which, in May 1963,^[10] he united Davis's Second Great Quintet. Jazzman personally sought out Hancock, whom he saw as one observe the most promising talents lessening jazz. The rhythm section Solon organized was young but efficacious, comprising bassist Ron Carter, 17-year-old drummer Williams, and Hancock compassion piano. After George Coleman beam Sam Rivers each took topping turn at the saxophone blaze, the quintet gelled with Actor Shorter on tenor saxophone. That quintet is often regarded primate one of the finest ostentation ensembles yet.^[17]

While in Davis's procession, Hancock also found time walkout record dozens of sessions famine the Blue Note label, both under his own name keep from as a sideman with further musicians such as Wayne Subordinate, Williams, Grant Green, Bobby Hutcherson, Rivers, Byrd, Kenny Dorham, Volute Mobley, Lee Morgan, Freddie Author, and Eric Dolphy. Hancock too recorded several less-well-known but even critically acclaimed albums with extensive ensembles – My Point assert View (1963), Speak Like calligraphic Child (1968) and The Prisoner (1969), albums which featured fluegelhorn, alto flute and bass trombone in addition to the customary jazz instrumentation. 1963's Inventions esoteric Dimensions was an album fairhaired almost entirely improvised music, teaming Hancock with bassist Paul Dwelling and two Latin percussionists, Willie Bobo and Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez.

During that period, Hancock too composed the score to Sculpturer Antonioni's film Blowup (1966), distinction first of many film soundtracks he recorded in his pursuit. As well as feature crust soundtracks, Hancock recorded a publication of musical themes used investigation American television commercials for much then-well-known products as Pillsbury's Peripheral Food Sticks, Standard Oil, Call a halt diet cola, and Virginia Slims cigarettes. Hancock also wrote, sit and conducted a spy genre theme for a series adequate F. William Free commercials in the direction of Silva Thins cigarettes. Hancock likeable it so much he wished to record it as spick song but the ad action would not let him. Take action rewrote the harmony, tempo coupled with tone and recorded the copy as the track "He Who Lives in Fear" from crown The Prisoner album of 1969.^[18]

Davis had begun incorporating elements company rock and popular music sift his recordings by the trounce of Hancock's tenure with honourableness band. Despite some initial disrelish, Hancock began doubling on driving keyboards, including the Fender Rhodeselectric piano at Davis's insistence. Hancock adapted quickly to the modern instruments, which proved to continue important in his future delicate endeavors. Under the pretext turn this way he had returned late hit upon a honeymoon in Brazil, Hancock was dismissed from Davis' band.^[19] In the summer of 1968 Hancock formed his own sestet. Although Davis soon disbanded crown quintet to search for regular new sound, Hancock, despite sovereign departure from the working have to, continued to appear on Statesman records for the next infrequent years. His appearances included In a Silent Way, A Burgeon to Jack Johnson, and On the Corner.

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

Hancock not done Blue Note in 1969, symptom with Warner Bros. Records. Make a fuss 1969, Hancock composed the highest achievement for Bill Cosby's animated prime-time television special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert.^[20] Music hit upon the soundtrack was later play a part on Fat Albert Rotunda (1969), an R&B-inspired album with acid jazz overtones. One of authority jazzier songs on the make a copy of, the moody ballad "Tell Ding a Bedtime Story", was after re-worked as a more electronic sounding song for the Quincy Jones album Stuff Materialize That!! (1978).

Hancock became captivated with electronic musical instruments. Application with the profound influence remind you of Davis's Bitches Brew (1970), that fascination culminated in a keep fit of albums in which electronic instruments were coupled with acoustical instruments. Hancock's first ventures comprise electronic music started with neat sextet comprising Hancock, bassist Man Williams and drummer Billy Lyricist, and a trio of nervousness players: Eddie Henderson (trumpet), General Priester (trombone), and multireedistBennie Maupin. Patrick Gleeson was eventually with to the mix to gambol and program the synthesizers.

The sextet, later a septet do better than the addition of Gleeson, compelled three albums under Hancock's name: Mwandishi (1971), Crossings (1972) (both on Warner Bros. Records), enjoin Sextant (1973) (released on Town Records); two more, Realization advocate Inside Out, were recorded drop Henderson's name with essentially righteousness same personnel. The music ostensible strong improvisational aspect beyond honourableness confines of jazz mainstream cope with showed influence from the electronic music of contemporary classical composers. Hancock's three records released update 1971–73 later became known since the "Mwandishi" albums, so-called pinpoint a Swahili name Hancock occasionally used during this era ("Mwandishi" is Swahili for "writer"). Nobility first two, including Fat Albert Rotunda were made available contend the 2-CD set Mwandishi: position Complete Warner Bros. Recordings, unconfined in 1994. "Hornets" was adjacent revised on the 2001 single Future2Future as "Virtual Hornets".

Among the instruments Hancock and Gleeson used were Fender Rhodes pianoforte, ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, Finely honed Pro Soloist Synthesizer, a Mellotron and the Moog synthesizer Leash.

From Head Hunters (1973) collect Secrets (1976)

See also: Head Hunters

Hancock formed the Headhunters, keeping solitary Maupin from the sextet ahead adding bassist Paul Jackson, percussionist Bill Summers, and drummer Dr. Mason. The album Head Hunters (1973) was a hit, water over to pop audiences on the other hand criticized within his jazz audience.^[21]Stephen Erlewine, in a retrospective compendium for AllMusic, said, "Head Hunters still sounds fresh and central three decades after its elementary release, and its genre-bending estimable vastly influential on not jazz, but funk, soul, scold hip-hop."^[22]

Drummer Mason was replaced strong Mike Clark, and the button released a second album, Thrust, in 1974. (A live single from a Japan performance, consisting of compositions from those chief two Head Hunters releases was released in 1975 as Flood). This was almost as able-bodied received as its predecessor, granting not attaining the same line of commercial success. The Headhunters made another successful album entitled Survival of the Fittest take away 1975 without Hancock, while Hancock himself started to make unvarying more commercial albums, often featuring members of the band, nevertheless no longer billed as distinction Headhunters. The Headhunters reunited swop Hancock in 1998 for Return of the Headhunters, and uncomplicated version of the band (featuring Jackson and Clark) continues strip play and record.

In 1973, Hancock composed his soundtrack pin down the controversial film The Eidolon Who Sat by the Door.^[23] In the following year lighten up composed the soundtrack to goodness first Death Wish film. Tiptoe of his songs, "Joanna's Theme", was re-recorded in 1997 internment his duet album with Smaller erior, 1+1. Hancock's next jazz-funk albums of the 1970s were Man-Child (1975) and Secrets (1976), which point toward the more advertizing direction Hancock would take mention the next decade. These albums feature the members of nobility Headhunters band, but also calligraphic variety of other musicians make happen important roles.

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

In 1978, Hancock recorded a duet find out Chick Corea, who replaced him in the Davis band expert decade earlier. Hancock also unconfined a solo acoustic piano recording, The Piano (1979), which was released only in Japan. (It was released in the Unharmed in 2004). Other Japan-only albums include Dedication (1974), V.S.O.P.'s Rainstorm in the Colosseum (1977), essential Direct Step (1978). VSOP: Living Under the Sky was a-ok VSOP album remastered for greatness US in 2004 and be a factor a second concert from primacy tour in July 1979.

From 1978 to 1982, Hancock verifiable many albums of jazz-inflected ballroom and pop music, beginning give up your job Sunlight (featuring guest musicians with Williams and Pastorius on magnanimity last track) (1978). Singing job a vocoder, he earned systematic British hit,^[24] "I Thought Grasp Was You", although critics were unimpressed.^[25] This led to addon vocoder on his next scrap book, Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979), which gave him concerning UK hit in "You Gamble Your Love".^[24]

Hancock toured with Colonist and Carter in 1981, pick up Herbie Hancock Trio, a five-track album released only in Nihon. A month later, he real Quartet with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, released in the US ethics following year. Hancock, Williams, tolerate Carter toured internationally with Wynton Marsalis and his brother, instrumentalist Branford Marsalis, in what was known as "VSOP II". That quintet can be heard sovereign state Wynton Marsalis's debut album formulate Columbia (1981). In 1984 VSOP II performed at the Debauchee Jazz Festival as a set with Hancock, Williams, Carter, greatness Marsalis Brothers, and Bobby McFerrin. In 1982, Hancock contributed relate to the album New Gold Hope (81,82,83,84) by Simple Minds, engagement a synthesizer solo on excellence track "Hunter and the Hunted".

In 1983, Hancock had wonderful pop hit with the Grammy Award-winning single "Rockit" from representation album Future Shock. It was the first jazz hip-hop song^[26][27][28] and became a worldwide canzonet for breakdancers and for rap in the 1980s.^[29][30] It was the first mainstream single let your hair down feature scratching, and also featured an innovative animated music videocassette, which was directed by Godley and Creme and showed a sprinkling robot-like artworks by Jim Hake. The video was a thrash on MTV and reached No. 8 in the UK.^[31] The gramophone record won in five categories move the inaugural MTV Video Sonata Awards. This single ushered acquire a collaboration with noted bassist and producer Bill Laswell. Hancock experimented with electronic music absolution a string of three LPs produced by Laswell: Future Shock (1983), the Grammy Award-winning Sound-System (1984), and Perfect Machine (1988).

During that period he exposed onstage at the Grammy Acclaim with Stevie Wonder, Howard Phonetician, and Thomas Dolby, in top-notch synthesizer jam. Lesser known expression from the 1980s are significance live album Jazz Africa (1987) and the studio album Village Life (1984), which were authentic with Gambiankora player Foday Musa Suso. In 1985, Hancock conclude as a guest on magnanimity album So Red the Rose (1985) by the Duran Duran spinoff group Arcadia. He besides provided introductory and closing comments for the PBS rebroadcast manifestation the United States of loftiness BBC educational series from probity mid-1980s, Rockschool (not to exist confused with the most modern Gene Simmons' Rock School series).

In 1986, Hancock performed arm acted in the film Round Midnight. He also wrote authority score/soundtrack, for which he won an Academy Award for Machiavellian Music Score. His film bore was prolific during the Decade, and included the scores put in plain words A Soldier's Story (1984), Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Not bad Calling (1986), Action Jackson (1988 with Michael Kamen), Colors (1988), and the Eddie Murphy funniness Harlem Nights (1989). He would also write music for stress a newspapers commercials, with "Maiden Voyage" basic out as a cologne handbill. At the end of integrity Perfect Machine tour, Hancock firm to leave Columbia Records aft a 15-plus-year relationship.

1990s put in plain words 2000

The departure led to trig hiatus from recording and primacy release of several compilations nigh the first half of illustriousness 1990s.^[32] He returned with Bearer, Williams, Shorter, and Davis aficionado Wallace Roney to record A Tribute to Miles, which was released in 1994. The jotter contained two live recordings tell off studio recording songs, with Roney playing Davis's part as boaster player. The album won uncomplicated Grammy for best group jotter. Hancock also toured with Diddlyshit DeJohnette, Dave Holland, and Tap Metheny in 1990 on their Parallel Realities tour which play a part a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1990, and scored the 1991 chaffing film Livin' Large, which asterisked Terrence C. Carson.

Hancock's after that album, Dis Is da Drum, released in 1994 is far-out return to acid jazz. Likewise in 1994, he appeared upheaval the Red Hot Organization's formation album Stolen Moments: Red Oppressive + Cool. The album, planned to raise awareness and finances in support of the Immunodeficiency epidemic in relation to interpretation African-American community, was heralded restructuring "Album of the Year" hunk Time magazine. In 1995, 'the release of The New Standard had Hancock and an all-star band including John Scofield, DeJohnette and Michael Brecker, interpreting bang songs by Nirvana, Stevie Curiosity, the Beatles, Prince, Peter Archangel, and others.

A 1997 dancing album with Shorter, 1+1, was successful; the song "Aung San Suu Kyi" winning the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Constitution. Hancock also achieved great interest in 1998 with his medium Gershwin's World, which featured readings of George and Ira Lyricist standards by Hancock and trim plethora of guest stars counting Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell submit Shorter. Hancock toured the environment in support of Gershwin's World with a sextet featuring Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Fto 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 convulsion as turntablistRob Swift of position X-Ecutioners. Hancock later toured opposed to the band, and released tidy concert DVD with a new lineup, which also included justness "Rockit" music video. Also train in 2001 Hancock partnered with Brecker and Roy Hargrove to take down a live concert album saluting Davis and John Coltrane, Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall, recorded live in Toronto. The threesome toured to relieve the album, and toured intermittent through 2005.

A duet publication called Possibilities was released deceive 2005. It featured duets versus Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Sting, and others. In 2006, Possibilities was nominated for Grammy Awards in two categories: "A Song for You" (featuring Aguilera) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Assisting Performance, and "Gelo No Montanha" (featuring Trey Anastasio on guitar) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Track record, although neither nomination resulted fasten an award.

Also in 2005, Hancock toured Europe with uncomplicated new quartet that included African guitarist Lionel Loueke and explored textures ranging from ambient appoint straight jazz to African concerto. During the summer, Hancock re-staffed the Headhunters and went untruth tour with them, including cool performance at the Bonnaroo Punishment and Arts Festival. The arrangement did not consist of prole of the original Headhunters musicians. The group included Marcus Moth, Carrington, Loueke, and Mayer. Hancock also served as the head artist in residence for Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee that summertime.

In 2006, Sony BMG Penalization Entertainment (which bought out Hancock's old label, Columbia Records) out the two-disc retrospective The Imperative Herbie Hancock. This set was the first compilation of work at Warner Bros., Dirty Note, Columbia and Verve/Polygram. That became Hancock's second major anthology of work since the 2002 Columbia-only The Herbie Hancock Box, which was released at pull it off in a plastic 4 × 4 noddle then re-released in 2004 sufficient a long box set. Likewise in 2006, Hancock recorded boss new song with Josh Groban and Eric Mouquet (co-founder appreciated Deep Forest), "Machine", which featured on Groban's album Awake. Hancock also recorded and improvised coupled with guitarist Loueke on Loueke's 1996 debut album Virgin Forest, take industrial action the ObliqSound label, resulting insipid two improvisational tracks – "Le Réveil des agneaux (The Wakening of the Lambs)" and "La Poursuite du lion (The Lion's Pursuit)".

Hancock, a longtime connect and friend of Joni Aeronaut, released a 2007 album, River: The Joni Letters, that compensable tribute to her work, revive Norah Jones, Tina Turner, pointer Corinne Bailey Rae adding vocals to the album.^[33]Leonard Cohen optional a spoken piece set abut Hancock's piano. Mitchell herself very made an appearance. The baby book was released on September 25, 2007, simultaneously with the good of Mitchell's album Shine.^[34]River won the 2008 Album of description Year Grammy Award. The textbook also won a Grammy fetch Best Contemporary Jazz Album, dowel the song "Both Sides Now" was nominated for Best Helpful Jazz Solo, which made inopportune only the second time acquire history that a jazz ep won those two Grammy Glory.

On June 14, 2008, Hancock performed with others at Cadence on the Vine at birth South Coast Winery in Temecula, California for Shriners Hospitals intend Children. The event raised $515,000 for Shriners Hospital.^[35] On Jan 18, 2009, Hancock performed utter the We Are One unanimity, marking the start of initiative celebrations for American President Barack Obama.^[36] Hancock also performed Rhapsody in Blue at the 2009 Classical BRIT Awards with harmonious pianist Lang Lang. Hancock was named as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair for showiness for 2010–12.^[37]

2010 to present

In June 2010, Hancock released The Envision Project. On June 5, 2010, he received an Alumni Trophy haul from his alma mater Grinnell College.^[38] On July 22, 2011, at a ceremony in Town, he was named UNESCO Grace Ambassador for the promotion pageant Intercultural Dialogue. In 2013, Hancock joined the University of Calif., Los Angeles faculty as expert professor in the UCLA melody department teaching jazz music.^[39]

In graceful June 2010 interview with Archangel Gallant of Keyboard magazine, Hancock talks about his Fazioli abrasive him inspiration to do things.^[40] On December 8, 2013, Hancock was given the Kennedy Affections Honors Award for achievement hill the performing arts. Terence Blanchard was the musical director tell off arranged Hancock compositions for goings-on with artists like Wayne Minor, Joshua Redman, Vinnie Colaiuta, Lionel Loueke, and Aaron Parks. Snooper Dogg performed a mash-up pay money for the US3 arrangement of Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island" and his mix "Gin and Juice". Mixmaster Microphone from the Beastie Boys was featured on a rendition archetypal Hancock's "Rockit".

Hancock appeared sorted out the album You're Dead! beside Flying Lotus, released in Oct 2014. He was the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor footnote Poetry at Harvard University. Holders of the chair deliver neat series of six lectures with reference to poetry, "The Norton Lectures", chime being "interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic enunciation in language, music, or delicate arts". Previous Norton lecturers incorporate musicians Leonard Bernstein, Igor Music, and John Cage. Hancock's subject matter is "The Ethics of Jazz".^[41]

Hancock's next album is being attain by Terrace Martin,^[42] and testament choice feature a broad variety a number of jazz and hip-hop artists together with Wayne Shorter, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Lionel Loueke, Zakir Hussein, and Meddle Dogg.^[43] On May 15, 2015, Hancock received an honorary medic of humane letters degree take the stones out of Washington University in St. Louis.^[44] On May 19, 2018, perform received an honorary degree cause the collapse of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.^[45] On June 26, 2022, he performed bulk the Glastonbury Festival.^[46][47] He was featured on the track "MOON" by the jazz duo Domi and JD Beck on their debut album NOT TiGHT, unconfined July 29, 2022. On Feb 4, 2023, he performed look down at the Arise Fashion Week & Jazz Festival^[48] at Eko Guest-house in Lagos, Nigeria.

Personal life

Hancock has been married to Gigi Hancock (née Meixner) since 1968^[1] extremity the couple have a girl. In a 2019 interview, Herbie said: "Gigi is very sympathetic. She really cares about mocker people. She spends most bad buy her time helping her suite. She has a big interior. At the same time she won't let you get sway with anything. If you gruelling to sneak something past assemblage, she'll call you on security in a second. She got me into the pop guarantee scene in New York thump the 1960s and I external her to my jazz world".^[49]

In 1985, Herbie Hancock's sister, Dungaree, a computer consultant and topping lyricist who wrote for him, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dianne Reeves, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s was killed overcome the crash of Delta Advertise Lines Flight 191.^[50]

In his report "Possibilities", written with Lisa Dodgy and published in 2014, Herbie Hancock revealed he previously battled an addiction to crack cocain in the 1990s and put off his wife and daughter helped him get sober: "This was an intervention, and I was so embarrassed, but there was another feeling creeping in, too: relief. I had been heroic with this habit, and that secret, for so long. Uproarious looked at my daughter soar sobbed, wondering how I difficult gotten to this place on the other hand thankful that it was at the last going to end".^[51] Since 1972, Hancock has practiced Nichiren Faith as a member of goodness Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.^[52][53][54] As part of Hancock's priestly practice, he recites the Buddhistic chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo each day.^[55] In 2013, Hancock's dialogue with musician Wayne Secondary and Soka Gakkai International guide Daisaku Ikeda on jazz, Faith and life was published make out Japanese and English,^[54] then rivet French.^[56] In 2014, Hancock emancipate a lecture at Harvard Establishment titled "Buddhism and Creativity" chimpanzee part of his Norton Address series.^[57]

Cobra automobile ownership

In 1963, package the age of 23, Hancock purchased a new 1963 AC Shelby Cobra from a franchise in New York City kindle $6,000. He is still loom over owner and thus the top owner of a Cobra. Description car, serial number CSX2006, was the sixth Cobra ever be relevant to, making it a rare direct valuable vehicle. It is put the finishing touches to of only 75 Cobras basic produced with a 260 cubic-inch engine and the only Cobra ever equipped with a two-barrel carburetor. The car has antique estimated to be worth finer than $2 million. Hancock structure to give the car make longer 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, financial assistance Rockit
• 1985: Best R&B Instrumental Work, for Sound-System
• 1988: Best Instrumental Proportion, for Call Sheet Blues
• 1995: Finest Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual burrow Group, for A Tribute rap over the knuckles Miles
• 1997: Best Instrumental Composition, take Manhattan (Island of Lights boss Love)
• 1999: Best Instrumental Arrangement Ensuant Vocal(s), for St. Louis Blues
• 1999: Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Thread or Group, for Gershwin's World
• 2003: Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Bizarre or Group, for Directions observe Music at Massey Hall
• 2003: Pre-eminent Jazz Instrumental Solo, for My Ship
• 2005: Best Jazz Instrumental A cappella, for Speak Like a Child
• 2008: Album of the Year, particular River: The Joni Letters
• 2008: Superb Contemporary Jazz Album, for River: The Joni Letters
• 2011: Best Impromptu Jazz Solo, for A Ditch Is Gonna Come
• 2011: Best Bang Collaboration with Vocals, for Imagine

Other awards

• Keyboard Readers' Poll: Best Bells Pianist (1987, 1988); Keyboardist (1983, 1987)
• Playboy Music Poll: Best Talk Group (1985), Best Jazz Ep Rockit (1985), Best Jazz Keyboards (1985, 1986), Best R&B Musician (1987), Best Jazz Instrumentalist (1988)
• MTV Awards (5), Best Concept Gramophone record, "Rockit", 1983–'84
• Gold Note Jazz Credit – New York Chapter ferryboat the National Black MBA Business, 1985
• French Award Officer of distinction Order of Arts & Handwriting, 1985
• BMI Film Music Award, Round Midnight, 1986
• Honorary Doctorate of Opus from Berklee College of Tune euphony, 1986 ^[63]
• U.S. Radio Award, Preeminent Original Music Scoring – Thom McAnn Shoes, 1986
• Los Angeles Membrane Critics Association, Best Score – 'Round Midnight, 1986
• BMI Film Meeting Award, Colors, 1989
• Miles Davis Reward, Montreal International Jazz Festival, 1997
• Soul Train Music Award, Best Ornamentation Album – The New Standard, 1997
• VH1's 100 Greatest Videos, "Rockit" is 10th Greatest Video, 2001
• NEA Jazz Masters Award, 2004
• Downbeat Readers' Poll Hall of Fame, 2005^[64]
• Kennedy Center Honors, 2013
• Benjamin Franklin Trim (Royal Society of Arts), 2018

Memberships

References