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Herbie Hancock

Hancock in December 2013Background information

Birth name Herbert Jeffrey Hancock

Born April 12, 1940

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Genres Jazz, bebop, post-bop, hard bop,

modal jazz, jazz fusion, jazz-funk

funk, R&B, electro, classical

Occupation(s) Musician, composer, bandleaderInstruments Piano, electric piano, synthesizers

organ, clavinet, keytar, vocoder,

Fairlight CMI

Years active 1961present

Labels Columbia, Blue Note, Warner Bro

Verve

Associated

acts

Miles Davis Quintet, Wayne

Shorter, Chick Corea, TheHeadhunters, V.S.O.P., Jaco

Pastorius, Joni Mitchell

Website www.herbiehancock.com

(http://www.herbiehancock.com/

Herbie HancockFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Herbert Jeffrey"Herbie" Hancock(born April 12, 1940) isan American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and

omposer.[1]As part of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet,

Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm sectionand was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop"ound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embraceynthesizers and funk music (characterized by syncopated

drum beats). Hancock's music is often melodicandaccessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieveduccess among pop audiences. His music embraces elements

of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements fromazz. In his jazz improvisation, hepossesses a unique creative

blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with

harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussyand Maurice Ravel.

Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupesland", "Watermelon Man" (later performedby dozens of

musicians,including bandleader Mongo Santamara),Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thoughtt Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute albumRiver: The

Joni Letterswon the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the

Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award, after

Getz/Gilbertoin1965.

Hancock practices Nichiren Buddhism and is a member of

he Buddhist association S!ka Gakkai International.[2][3][4]

As part of Hancock's spiritual practice, he recites the

Buddhist chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo each day.[5]In 2013,Hancock's dialogue with WayneShorter and Daisaku Ikeda

on jazz, Buddhism and life was published in Japanese.[6]

On July 22, 2011, at a ceremony in Paris, Hancock wasnamed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion ofntercultural Dialogue. In 2013 Hancock joined the

University of California, Los Angeles faculty as a professorn the UCLA music department where he will teach jazz

music.[7]
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Hancock is the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. Holders of the chairdeliver a series of six lectures on poetry, "The Norton Lectures", poetry being "interpreted in the broadest senncluding all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts." Previous Norton lecturers include musicians

Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky and John Cage. Hancock's theme is "The Ethics of Jazz."[8]

Contents

1 Early life and career

2 Miles Davis Quintet (19631968) and Blue Note Records (19621969)

3 Fat Albert(1969) andMwandishi(1971)

4 FromHead Hunters(1973) to Secrets(1976)

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

6 1990s to 2000

7 2000 to 2009

8 Current work from 2010 to present

9 Discography

10 Selected concert films

11 Books

12 Awards

12.1 Academy Awards

12.2 Grammy Awards

12.3 Playboy Music Poll

12.4 Keyboard Magazine's Readers Poll

12.5 Other notable awards

13 References

14 External links

Early life and careerHancock was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Winnie Belle (Griffin), a secretary, and Wayman Edward

Hancock, a government meat inspector.[9]He attended the Wendell Phillips High School. Like many jazzpianists, Hancock started with a classical music education. He studied from age seven, and his talent was
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ecognized early. Considered a child prodigy,[10]he played the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto N26 in D Major, K. 537 (Coronation)at a young people's concert on February 5, 1952, with the Chicago

Symphony Orchestra (led by CSO assistant conductor George Schick) at age 11.[11]

Through his teens, Hancock never had a jazz teacher, but developed his ear and sense of harmony. He was alnfluenced by records of the vocal group the Hi-Lo's. He reported that:

the time I actually heard the Hi-Lo's, I started picking that stuff out; my ear was happening. I couldhear stuff and that's when I really learned some much farther-out voicings like the harmonies Iused on Speak Like a Child just being able to do that. I really got that from Clare Fischer'sarrangements for the Hi-Lo's. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept... He

and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it came from.[12]

n 1960, he heard Chris Anderson play just once, and begged him to accept him as a student.[13]Hancock oft

mentions Anderson as his harmonic guru. Hancock left Grinnell College, moved to Chicago and began workwith Donald Byrd and Coleman Hawkins, during which period he also took courses at Roosevelt University.He later graduated from Grinnell with degrees in electrical engineering and music. Grinnell also awarded hi

an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1972.[11][14]) Donald Byrd was attending the Manhattan School oMusic in New York at the time and suggested that Hancock study composition with Vittorio Giannini, whichdid for a short time in 1960. The pianist quickly earned a reputation, and played subsequent sessions with OlNelson and Phil Woods. He recorded his first solo album Takin' Offfor Blue Note Records in 1962.Watermelon Man" (from Takin' Off) was to provide Mongo Santamara with a hit single, but more importanor Hancock, Takin' Offcaught the attention of Miles Davis, who was at that time assembling a new band.

Hancock was introduced to Davis by the young drummer Tony Williams, a member of the new band.

Miles Davis Quintet (19631968) and Blue Note Records (19621969

Hancock received considerable attention when, in May 1963,[11]he joined Davis's Second Great Quintet. Dapersonally sought out Hancock, whom he saw as one of the most promising talents in jazz. The rhythm sectioDavis organized was young but effective, comprising bassist Ron Carter, 17-year-old drummer Williams, anHancock on piano. After George Coleman and Sam Rivers each took a turn at the saxophone spot, the quintewould gel with Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone. This quintet is often regarded as one of the finest jazzensembles, and the rhythm section has been especially praised for its innovation and flexibility.

The second great quintet was where Hancock found his own voice as a pianist. Not only did he find new wayo use common chords, but he also popularized chords that had not previously been used in jazz. Hancock al

developed a unique taste for "orchestral" accompaniment using quartal harmony and Debussy-like harmonwith stark contrasts then unheard of in jazz. With Williams and Carter he wove a labyrinth of rhythmic intricon, around and over existing melodic and chordal schemes. In the latter half of the 1960s their approach becao sophisticated and unorthodox that conventional chord changes would hardly be discernible; hence theirmprovisational concept would become known as "Time, No Changes".
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While in Davis's band, Hancock also found time to record dozens of sessions for the Blue Note label, bothunder his own name and as a sideman with other musicians such as Shorter, Williams, Grant Green, BobbyHutcherson, Rivers, Byrd, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard.

His albumsEmpyrean Isles(1964) andMaiden Voyage(1965) were to be two of the most famous andnfluential jazz LPs of the 1960s, winning praise for both their innovation and accessibility (the latter

demonstrated by the subsequent enormous popularity of theMaiden Voyagetitle track as a jazz standard, and

he jazz rap group US3 having a hit single with "Cantaloop" (derived from "Cantaloupe Island" onEmpyreansles) some twenty five years later).Empyrean Islesfeatured the Davis rhythm section of Hancock, Carter an

Williams with the addition of Hubbard on cornet, whileMaiden Voyagealso added former Davis saxophonisColeman (with Hubbard remaining on trumpet). Both albums are regarded as among the principal foundationof the post-bop style. Hancock also recorded several less-well-known but still critically acclaimed albums wiarger ensembles My Point of View(1963), Speak Like a Child(1968) and The Prisoner(1969) featuredlugelhorn, alto flute and bass trombone. 1963'sInventions and Dimensionswas an album of almost entirelymprovised music, teaming Hancock with bassist Paul Chambers and two Latin percussionists, Willie Bobo a

Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez.

During this period, Hancock also composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni's filmBlowup(1966), the fof many soundtracks he recorded in his career.

Davis had begun incorporating elements of rock and popular music into his recordings by the end of Hancocenure with the band. Despite some initial reluctance, Hancock began doubling on electric keyboards includihe Fender Rhodes electric piano at Davis's insistence. Hancock adapted quickly to the new instruments, whi

proved to be instrumental in his future artistic endeavors.

Under the pretext that he had returned late from a honeymoon in Brazil, Hancock was dismissed from Davisband. In the summer of 1968 Hancock formed his own sextet. However, although Davis soon disbanded hisquintet to search for a new sound, Hancock, despite his departure from the working band, continued to appeaon Davis records for the next few years. Noteworthy appearances includeIn a Silent Way,A Tribute to JackJohnsonand On the Corner.

at Albert(1969) andMwandishi(1971)

Hancock left Blue Note in 1969, signing with Warner Bros. Records. In 1969, Hancock composed the

oundtrack for the Bill Cosby animated children's television show Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Titled Fatlbert Rotunda(1969), the album was mainly an R&B-influenced album with strong jazz overtones. One of

azzier songs on the record, "Tell Me a Bedtime Story", was later re-worked as a more electronic sounding so

or the Quincy Jones album, Sounds...and Stuff Like That!!(1978).

Hancock became fascinated with accumulating musical gadgets and toys. Together with the profound influenof Davis'sBitches Brew(1970), this fascination would culminate in a series of albums, in which electronicnstruments are coupled with acoustic instruments.
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Hancock playing a Roland

AX-7 keytar, at The

Roundhouse, Camden,

London, 2006

Hancock's first ventures into electronic music started with a sextet comprising Hancock, bassist Buster Williand drummer Billy Hart, and a trio of horn players: Eddie Henderson (trumpet), Julian Priester (trombone), amultireedist Bennie Maupin. Dr. Patrick Gleeson was eventually added to the mix to play and program theynthesizers. In fact, Hancock was one of the first jazz pianists to completely embrace electronic keyboards.

The sextet, later a septet with the addition of Gleeson, made three albums under Hancock's name:Mwandish1971), Crossings(1972) (both on Warner Bros. Records), and Sextant(1973) (released on Columbia Record

wo more,RealizationandInside Out, were recorded under Henderson's name with essentially the samepersonnel. The music exhibited strong improvisational aspect beyond the confines of jazz mainstream andhowed influence from the electronic music of contemporary classical composers.

Synthesizer player Gleeson, one of the first musicians to play synthesizer on any jazz recording, introduced tinstrument on Crossings, released in 1972, one of a handful of influentialelectronic jazz/fusion recordings to feature synthesizer that year. On Crossi(as well as on Weather Report'sI Sing the Body Electric), the synthesizer isused more as an improvisatory global orchestration device than as a strictlymelodic instrument. An early review of CrossingsinDownbeat magazine

complained about the synthesizer, but a few years later the magazine noted cover story on Gleeson that he was "a pioneer" in the field of electronics in

jazz. In the albums following The Crossings, Hancock started to play synthhimself, with synth taking on a melodic role.

Hancock's three records released in 19711973 later became known as the"Mwandishi" albums, so-called after a Swahili name Hancock sometimes uduring this era (Mwandishiis Swahili for writer). The first two, including F

Albert Rotundawere made available on the 2-CD setMwandishi: theComplete Warner Bros. Recordings, released in 1994, but are now sold as

individual CD editions. Of the three electronic albums, Sextantis probably most experimental since the ARP synthesizers are used extensively, and somadvanced improvisation ("post-modal free impressionism") is found on thetracks "Hornets" and "Hidden Shadows" (which is in the meter 19/4)."Hornets" was later revised on the 2001 album Future2Futureas "VirtualHornets".

Among the instruments Hancock and Gleeson used were Fender Rhodes piano, ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, APro Soloist Synthesizer, a Mellotron and the Moog synthesizer III.

All three Warner Bros. albums Fat Albert Rotunda(1969),Mwandishi(1971), and Crossings(1972), were

emastered in 2001 and released in Europe but were not released in the US as of June 2005. In the winter of20067 a remastered edition of Crossingswas announced and scheduled for release in the spring.

FromHead Hunters(1973) to Secrets(1976)
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Hancock playing in Vredenburg,

Utrecht, Netherlands, December,

2006

After the sometimes "airy" and decidedly experimental "Mwandishi" albums, Hancock was eager to performmore "earthy" and "funky" music. TheMwandishialbums though laterseen as respected early fusion recordings had seen mixed reviews andpoor sales, so it is probable that Hancock was motivated by financialconcerns as well as artistic restlessness. Hancock was also bothered by tfact that many people did not understand avant-garde music. He explainethat he loved funk music, especially Sly Stone's music, so he wanted to t

to make funk himself.

He gathered a new band, which he called The Headhunters, keeping onlyMaupin from the sextet and adding bassist Paul Jackson, percussionist BSummers, and drummer Harvey Mason. The albumHead Hunters, releain 1973, was a major hit and crossed over to pop audiences, though itprompted criticism from some jazz fans.

Despite charges of "selling out", Stephen Erlewine of AllMusic positivelreviewed the album among other friendly critics, saying, "Head Hunters

still sounds fresh and vital three decades after its initial release, and itsgenre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul,

hip-hop."[15]

Drummer Mason was replaced by Mike Clark, and the band released asecond album, Thrust, the following year, 1974. (A live album from a Ja

performance, consisting of compositions from those first twoHead Huntersreleases was released in 1975 asFlood. The record has since been released on CD in Japan.) This was almost as well received as its predecessf not attaining the same level of commercial success. The Headhunters made another successful album calle

Survival of the Fittestin 1975 without Hancock, while Hancock himself started to make even more commerc

albums, often featuring members of the band, but no longer billed as The Headhunters. The Headhunterseunited with Hancock in 1998 forReturn of the Headhunters, and a version of the band (featuring Jackson a

Clark) continues to play live and record.

n 1973, Hancock composed his second masterful soundtrack to the controversial film The Spook Who Sat byhe Door. Then in 1974, he also composed the soundtrack to the firstDeath Wishfilm. One of his memorablongs, "Joanna's Theme", would later be re-recorded in 1997 on his duet album with Shorter, 1 + 1.

Hancock's next jazz-funk albums of the 1970s wereMan-Child(1975), and Secrets(1976), which point towahe more commercial direction Hancock would take over the next decade. These albums feature the member

he Headhunters band, but also a variety of other musicians in important roles.

From V.S.O.P.(1976) toFuture Shock(1983)

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hancock toured with his V.S.O.P. quintet, which featured all themembers of the 1960s Davis quintet except Davis, who was replaced by trumpeter Hubbard. There was conspeculation that one day Davis would reunite with his classic band, but he never did so. VSOP recorded seveive albums in the late 1970s, including The Quintet(1977).
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n 1978, Hancock recorded a duet with Chick Corea, who had replaced him in the Davis band a decade earlieHancock also released a solo acoustic piano album titled The Piano(1979), which, like so many Hancockalbums at the time, was initially released only in Japan. (It was finally released in the US in 2004.) Several oapan-only releases have yet to appear in the US, such asDedication(1974), V.S.O.P.'s Tempest in the

Colosseum(1977), andDirect Step(1978).Live Under the Skywas a VSOP album remastered for the US in2004, and included an entire second concert from the July 1979 tour.

From 1978 to 1982, Hancock recorded many albums consisting of jazz-inflected disco and pop music,beginning with Sunlight(featuring guest musicians including Williams and Pastorius on the last track) (1978

Singing through a vocoder, he earned a British hit,[16]"I Thought It Was You", although critics were

unimpressed.[17]This led to more vocoder on 1979 follow-up, Feets, Don't Fail Me Now, which gave him

another UK hit in "You Bet Your Love".[16]

Albums such asMonster(1980),Magic Windows(1981), andLite Me Up(1982) were some of Hancock's mriticized and unwelcomed albums, the market at the time being somewhat saturated with similar pop-jazz

hybrids from the likes of former bandmate Hubbard. Hancock himself had quite a limited role in some of tho

albums, leaving singing, composing and even producing to others.Mr. Hands(1980) is perhaps the one albuduring this period, that was critically acclaimed. To the delight of many fans, there were no vocals on thealbum, and one track featured Pastorius on bass. The album contained a wide variety of different styles,ncluding a disco instrumental song, a Latin-jazz number and an electronic piece, in which Hancock plays alo

with the help of computers.

Hancock also found time to record more traditional jazz while creating more commercially oriented music. Houred with Williams and Carter in 1981, recordingHerbie Hancock Trio, a five-track live album released onn Japan. A month later, he recorded Quartetwith trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, released in the US the follow

year. Hancock, Williams and Carter toured internationally with Wynton and his brother, saxophonist Branfor

Marsalis, in what was known as "VSOP II". This quintet can be heard on Marsalis's debut album on Columb1981). In 1984 VSOP II performed at the Playboy Jazz Festival as a sextet with Hancock, Williams, Carter,Marsalis Brothers and the addition of a third member into the horn section by way of Bobby McFerrinontributing his unique vocal styling's.

n 1982 Hancock contributed to the Simple Minds albumNew Gold Dream (81,82,83,84), playing a synthesiolo on the track "Hunter and the Hunted".

n 1983, Hancock had a mainstream hit with the Grammy-award winning instrumental single "Rockit" from

album Future Shock. It was the first jazz hip-hop song[18][19][20]and became a worldwide anthem for the

breakdancers and for the hip-hop culture of the 1980s.[21][22]

It was also the first mainstream single to featurcratching, and also featured an innovative animated music video, which was directed by Godley and Creme

and showed several robot-like artworks by Jim Whiting. The video was a hit on MTV and reached No. 8 in th

UK.[23]The video won in five categories at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards. This single ushered inollaboration with noted bassist and producer Bill Laswell. Hancock experimented with electronic music on tring of three LPs produced by Laswell: Future Shock(1983), the Grammy Award-winning Sound-System1984), and Perfect Machine(1988).
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Hancock live in concert

During this period, he appeared onstage at the Grammy Awards with Stevie Wonder, Howard Jones, andThomas Dolby, in a synthesizer jam. Lesser known works from the 1980s are the live albumJazz Africa(198

and the studio album Village Life(1984), which were recorded with Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso.Also, in 1985 Hancock performed as a guest on the album So Red the Rose(1985) by the Duran Duran spinogroup Arcadia. He also provided introductory and closing comments for the PBS rebroadcast in the UnitedStates of the BBC educational series from the mid-1980s,Rockschool(not to be confused with the most receGene Simmons' Rock Schoolseries).

n 1986 Hancock performed and acted in the film 'Round Midnight. He also wrote the score/soundtrack, forwhich he won an Academy Award for Original Music Score. Often he would write music for TV commerciaMaiden Voyage", in fact, started out as a cologne advertisement. At the end of the Perfect Machinetour,

Hancock decided to leave Columbia Records after a 15-plus-year relationship.

As of June 2005 almost half of his Columbia recordings have been remastered. The first three US releases,Sextant,Head Huntersand Thrust, as well as the last four releases, Future Shock, Sound-System, the soundtroRound Midnight, and Perfect Machine. Everything released in America fromMan-Child(1975) to Quarte1982) has yet to be remastered. Some albums, made and initially released in the US, were remastered betwe

999 and 2001 in other countries. Hancock also re-released some of his Japan-only releases in the West, suchThe Piano.

1990s to 2000

After a break following his leaving of Columbia, Hancock, together withCarter, Williams, Shorter, and Davis admirer Wallace Roney, recordedATribute to Miles, which was released in 1994. The album contained two liveecordings and studio recording classics, with Roney playing Davis's part as

rumpet player. The album won a Grammy for best group album. He alsooured with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and Pat Metheny in 1990 onheir Parallel Realitiestour, which included a performance at the Montreuxazz Festival in July 1990.

Hancock's next album,Dis Is da Drum, released in 1994, saw him return toacid jazz. Also in 1994, he appeared on the Red Hot Organization'sompilation album Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. The album, meant toaise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation tohe African-American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by

Time Magazine.

995's The New Standardfound Hancock and an all-star band includingohn Scofield, DeJohnette and Michael Brecker, interpreting pop songs by

Nirvana, Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Prince, Peter Gabriel and others.

A 1997 duet album with Shorter, entitled 1 + 1, was successful; the song "Aung San Suu Kyi" winning theGrammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. Hancock also achieved great success in 1998 with hisalbum Gershwin's World, which featured inventive readings of George and Ira Gershwin standards by Hanco
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Hancock performing in concert, 2006

and a plethora of guest stars, including Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Shorter. Hancock toured the world in suppof Gershwin's Worldwith a sextet that featured Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ira Coleman, EliDegibri and Eddie Henderson.

2000 to 2009

n 2001 Hancock recorded Future2Future, which reunited Hancock with Laswell and featured doses ofelectronica as well as turntablist Rob Swift of The X-Ecutioners. Hancock later toured with the band, andeleased a live concert DVD with a different lineup, which also included the "Rockit" music video. Also in 2

Hancock partnered with Brecker and Roy Hargrove to record a live concert album saluting Davis and JohnColtrane, entitledDirections in Music: Live at Massey Hall, recorded live in Toronto. The threesome toured upport the album, and toured on-and-off through 2005.

The year 2005 saw the release of a duet album called Possibilitiesfeatured duets with Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, JoMayer, Christina Aguilera, Sting and others. In 2006 Possibilities

was nominated for Grammy Awards in two categories: "A Song foYou", (featuring Aguilera) was nominated for a Grammy Award fBest Pop Instrumental Performance, and "Gelo No Montanha",(featuring Trey Anastasio on guitar, was nominated for a GrammyAward for Best Instrumental Performance, although neithernomination resulted in an award.

Also in 2005 Hancock toured Europe with a new quartet thatincluded Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke, and explored texturesranging from ambient to straight jazz to African music. Plus, durin

he summer of 2005, Hancock re-staffed the famous Headhunters and went on tour with them, including aperformance at The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. This lineup did not consist of any of the originalHeadhunters musicians. The group included Marcus Miller, Carrington, Loueke and Mayer. Hancock alsoerved as the first artist in residence for Bonnaroo that summer.

Also in 2006 Sony BMG Music Entertainment (which bought out Hancock's old label, Columbia Records)eleased the two-disc retrospective The Essential Herbie Hancock. This set was the first compilation of his w

at Warner Bros., Blue Note, Columbia and Verve/Polygram. This became Hancock's second major compilatiof work since the 2002 Columbia-only The Herbie Hancock Box, which was released at first in a plastic 4 "ube then re-released in 2004 in a long box set. Also in 2006, Hancock recorded a new song with Josh Groba

and Eric Mouquet (co-founder of Deep Forest), entitled "Machine". It is featured on Groban's CDAwake.

Hancock also recorded and improvised with guitarist Loueke on Loueke's 1996 debut album Virgin Forest, ohe ObliqSound label, resulting in two improvisational tracks "Le Rveil des agneaux (The Awakening of t

Lambs)" and "La Poursuite du lion (The Lion's Pursuit)".

Hancock, a longtime associate and friend of Mitchell released a 2007 album,River: The Joni Letters, that pa

ribute to her work with Norah Jones and Tina Turner, adding vocals to the album,[25]as did Corinne BaileyRae. Leonard Cohen contributed a spoken piece set to Hancock's piano. Mitchell herself also made an
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Hancock on stage performing in

Warszawa, Poland, November 29, 2010

with his Imagine Project.

appearance. The album was released on September 25, 2007, simultaneously with the release of Mitchell's

newest album at that time: Shine.[26]Riverwon the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy Award, only the seconime in history that a jazz album received either honor. The album also won a Grammy for Best Contemporaazz Album, and the song "Both Sides Now" was nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Solo.

On June 14, 2008 Hancock performed with others at Rhythm on the Vine at the South Coast Winery in

Temecula, California, for Shriners Hospitals for Children. The event raised $515,000 for Shriners Hospital.[2

On January 18, 2009 Hancock performed at the We Are One concert, marking the start of inaugural celebrati

or American President Barack Obama.[28]Hancock also performed Rhapsody in Blue at the 2009 ClassicalBRIT Awards with classical pianist Lang Lang. Hancock was named as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's

reative chair for jazz for 201012.[29]

His latest work includes assisting the production of the Kanye West track "RoboCop", found on 808s &Heartbreak.

Current work from 2010 to present

n June 2010 Hancock released The Imagine Project. On June 5,2010 Hancock received an Alumni Award from his alma mater,

Grinnell College.[30]On December 8, 2013 he was given theKennedy Center Honors Award for achievement in the performingarts with artists like Snoop Dogg and Mixmaster Mike from theBeastie Boys performing his music. He appears on the 5th FlyingLotus studio album "You're Dead," released in October 2014.

Discography

Title Year Label

Takin' Off 1962 Blue Note

My Point of View 1963 Blue Note

Inventions and Dimensions 1963 Blue Note

Empyrean Isles 1964 Blue Note

Maiden Voyage 1965 Blue Note

Blow-Up(Soundtrack) 1966 MGM

Speak Like a Child 1968 Blue Note

The Prisoner 1969 Blue Note

Fat Albert Rotunda 1969 Warner Bros.

Mwandishi 1970 Warner Bros.

Crossings 1972 Warner Bros.
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Dis Is da Drum 1994 Verve/Mercury

The New Standard 1995 Verve

1 + 1(with Wayne Shorter) 1997 Verve

Gershwin's World 1998 Verve

Future2Future 2001TransparentMusic

Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall

(Live album with Michael Brecker andRoy Hargrove)

2002 Verve

Possibilities 2005HancockMusic/HearMusic/Vector

River: The Joni Letters 2007 Verve

Then and Now: The Definitive HerbieHancock(Compilation)

2008 Verve

The Imagine Project 2010 Hancock Music

Selected concert films

2000:DeJohnette, Hancock, Holland and Metheny Live in Concert

2002:Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!with Ron Carter and Billy Cobham[31]

2002: The Jazz Channel Presents Herbie Hancock (BET on Jazz)with Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne

Carrington, Ira Coleman, Eli Degibri and Eddie Henderson (recorded in 2000)

2004:Herbie Hancock Future2Future Live

2005:Herbie Hancock's Headhunters Watermelon Man (Live in Japan)

2006:Herbie Hancock Possibilitieswith John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Joss Stone, and more

Books

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities(2014) ISBN 978-0-670-01471-2

Awards

Academy Awards

1986, Original Soundtrack, forRound Midnight

Grammy Awards
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Hancock presented with Gold Record Award byKazimierz Pu#aski of Sony Music Poland.

November 29, 2011

Michael Lington and Hancock (posingright) at the entrance of the Playboy Ja

Festival

1. 1984, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, forRockit

2. 1985, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Sound-System

3. 1988, Best Instrumental Composition, for Call Sheet Blues

4. 1995, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group, forA Tribute to Miles

5. 1997, Best Instrumental Composition, forManhattan

(Island of Lights and Love)6. 1999, Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying

Vocal(s), for St. Louis Blues

7. 1999, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual

or Group, for Gershwin's World

8. 2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or

Group, forDirections in Music: Live at Massey Hall

9. 2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, forMy Ship

10. 2005, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for Speak Like a

Child

11. 2008, Album of the Year, forRiver: The Joni Letters

12. 2008, Best Contemporary Jazz Album, forRiver: The Joni Letters

13. 2011, Best Improvised Jazz Solo, forA Change Is Gonna Come

14. 2011, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, forImagine

Playboy Music Poll

Best Jazz Group, 1985

Best Jazz Keyboards, 1985

Best Jazz Album Rockit, 1985

Best Jazz Keyboards, 1986

Best R&B Instrumentalist, 1987

Best Jazz Instrumentalist, 1988

Keyboard Magazine's Readers Poll

Best Jazz & Pop Keyboardist, 1983

Best Jazz Pianist, 1987

Best Jazz Keyboardist, 1987
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Pop_Collaboration_with_Vocalshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River:_The_Joni_Lettershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Contemporary_Jazz_Albumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River:_The_Joni_Lettershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Album_of_the_Yearhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directions_in_Music:_Live_at_Massey_Hallhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershwin%27s_Worldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tribute_to_Mileshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Contemporary_Jazz_Albumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Instrumental_Compositionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-System_(album)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_R%26B_Instrumental_Performancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy_Jazz_Festivalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Herbie_Playboy_2008.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HerbieHancock20101129C.jpg


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Best Jazz Pianist, 1988

Other notable awards

MTV Awards (5 awards in total) Best Concept Video Rockit, 198384

Gold Note Jazz Awards NY Chapter of the National Black MBA Association, 1985

French Award Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters Paris, 1985

BMI Film Music AwardRound Midnight, 1986

U.S. Radio Award "Best Original Music Scoring Thom McAnn Shoes", 1986

Los Angeles Film Critics Association "Best Score Round Midnight", 1986

BMI Film Music Award Colors, 1989

Miles Davis Award, granted by the Montreal International Jazz Festival, 1997

Soul Train Music Award "Best Jazz Album The New Standard", 1997

Festival International Jazz de Montreal Prix Miles Davis, 1997VH1's 100 Greatest VideosRockitis "10th Greatest Video", 2001

NEA Jazz Masters Award, 2004

Downbeat MagazineReaders Poll Hall of Fame, 2005[32]

Recipient of the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013[33]

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Wikimedia Commons has

media related to Herbie

Hancock.

External links

Herbie Hancock (http://www.herbiehancock.com) official site

Herbie Hancock

(https://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists/Jazz/Hancock%2C_Herbie/)

DMOZ

Herbie Hancock (http://www.musicodex.com/profile/herbiehancock) Herbie Hancock MusiCodex Pag

Herbie Hancock (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Herbie+Hancock) discography at Discogs

Herbie Hancock (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359372/) at the Internet Movie Database

Herbie Hancock (http://vervemusicgroup.com/artist.aspx?ob=pri&src=wiki&aid=2846) at Verve Reco

Herbie Hancock (http://vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=n&src=art&pid=11770) albumRiver:

Retrieved July 28, 2012.

22. ^"Meet Herbie Hancock" (http://www.monkinstitute.org/meet/herbiehancock.php). Thelonious Monk Institute of

Jazz. Retrieved July 28, 2012.

23. ^Brown, T. Kutner, J. & Warwick, N. The Complete Book of the British Charts. Omnibus Press (ISBN 0711990751

2002, p.447

24. ^[1] (http://www.pandora.com/music/artist/3feb50074a703d1a)

25. ^Andre Mayer (June 18, 2007). "Key figure: An interview with jazz legend Herbie Hancock"

(http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/hancock.html). CBC News. Retrieved September 11, 2007.

26. ^"The Official Website of Joni Mitchell" (http://www.jonimitchell.com/). Jonimitchell.com. Retrieved 2014-04-18.

27. ^Shriners Hospitals for Children, "About Rhythm on the Vine"

(http://www.rhythmonthevine.org/index.cfm/id/2/About-ROTV/), Rhythm on the Vine, 2008.

28. ^"Obama: People Who Love This Country Can Change It" (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/18/obama-

family-arrives-concert-lincoln-memorial/). Foxnews. January 18, 2009. Retrieved February 9, 2009.

29. ^Haga, E. Herbie Hancock Named L.A. Philharmonic's Next Creative Chair for Jazz

(http://jazztimes.com/articles/24981-herbie-hancock-named-l-a-philharmonic-s-next-creative-chair-for-jazz),Jazz TimAugust 5, 2009.

30. ^Alumni Award: Herbert J. Hancock '60(http://loggia.grinnell.edu/Page.aspx?pid=1098)Hancock received an Alum

Award from Grinnell College at the annual Alumni Assembly June 5, 2010.

31. ^"VIEW DVD Listing" (http://www.view.com/herbie_hancock_trio_hurricane_dvd.aspx). View.com. Retrieved

October 22, 2011.

32. ^[2] (http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/02.28/99-culturalrhythms.html)

33. ^"American Academy of Arts and Sciences membership" (http://www.amacad.org/content/members/members.aspx)

Amacad.org. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
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Joni Lettersrelease at Verve Records

Herbie Hancock (http://www.stamil.homepage.t-online.de/hhdisco.htm) fan discography

Herbie Hancock

(http://applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/the_applematters_interview_herbie_hancock)

interview about music and technology at AppleMatters (http://www.applematters.com)

Herbie Hancock (http://www.livedaily.com/interviews/liveDaily_Interview_Herbie_Hancock-8360.htminterview on the "Possibilities" album release at LiveDaily (http://www.livedaily.com)

Herbie Hancock (http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=11098&disp=all) Outside The Comfo

Zoneinterview at JamBase (http://www.jambase.com)

Herbie Hancock (http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-twelve-essential-herbie-hancock-

performances)Essential Recordingsby Ted Gioia at jazz.com (http://www.jazz.com)

Herbie Hancock (http://loggia.grinnell.edu/Page.aspx?pid=1098) Grinnell College Alumni Award

citation, from Grinnell College Alumni Assembly on June 5, 2010

Herbie Hancock (http://www.newyorkjazzworkshop.com/herbie-hancock/) In depth article by C.J She

on the New York Jazz Workshop blog, November, 2014

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