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Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. He started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. Hancock soon joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, he experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles using a wide array of…
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entertainment · American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940) · singer-songwriter · bandleader · conductor · jazz musician · keyboardist · actor · pianist · film score composer · music arranger · composer · also Herbie Hancock, Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock, Herbert Jeffrey Hancock, Herbert Hancock, Hancock
Born 12 April 1940 · Q105875
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Hoodline: Herbie Hancock Brings Miles Davis Legacy To Indianapolis Next Week
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Awarded Polar Music Prize (2025).
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Hancock was one of the 2025 laureates for the Polar Music Prize, awarded in Stockholm, Sweden
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Performed at the Arise Fashion Week & Jazz Festival at Eko Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria
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Performed at the Glastonbury Festival
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Received an honorary degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Hancock received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Washington University in St
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Hancock delivered a lecture at Harvard University titled "Buddhism and Creativity" as part of his Norton Lecture series
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Hancock revealed that he had previously battled an addiction to crack cocaine, in the 1990s, and that his wife and daughter helped him get sober: "This was an intervention, and I was so embarrassed, but there was another
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Hancock was given the Kennedy Center Honors Award for achievement in the performing arts
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Released album “The Acoustic Collection”.
Released album “The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972 - 1988”.
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2013).
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Hancock joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty as a professor in the UCLA music department teaching jazz music
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Hancock's dialogue with musician Wayne Shorter and Soka Gakkai International president Daisaku Ikeda on jazz, Buddhism and life was published in Japanese and English, then in French
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Herbie Hancock”.
Released album “The Best of Herbie Hancock”.
At a ceremony in Paris, he was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Intercultural Dialogue
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Released album “Legends (Remastered)”.
Released album “Timeless Jazz: Herbie Hancock”.
Career landmark: UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (2011).
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Released album “Watermelon Man: The Ultimate Hancock!”.
Released album “The Imagine Project”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance (2010).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (2010).
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Received an Alumni Award from his alma mater Grinnell College
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Released album “Blue Note TSF”.
Released album “Triple Best Of”.
Hancock performed at the We Are One concert, marking the start of inaugural celebrations for American President Barack Obama
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Released album “Then and Now: The Definitive”.
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2008).
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for Head Hunters (2008).
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Hancock performed with others at Rhythm on the Vine at the South Coast Winery in Temecula, California for Shriners Hospitals for Children
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Released album “Late Night Jazz Favorites”.
Released album “Les Incontournables du jazz : Herbie Hancock”.
Released album “Coleção Folha clássicos do jazz, Volume 2”.
Simultaneously with the release of Mitchell's album Shine
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Released album “River: The Joni Letters”.
Released album “The Finest in Jazz”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album for River: The Joni Letters (2007).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters (2007).
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Released album “The Essential Herbie Hancock”.
Released album “The Collection: A Selection of Tracks From the Blue Note Years”.
Released album “Jazz to Funk”.
Possibilities received nominations for Grammy Awards in two categories: "A Song for You" (featuring Aguilera) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, and "Gelo No Montanha" (featuring Trey
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment (which bought out Hancock's old label, Columbia Records) released the two-disc retrospective The Essential Herbie Hancock
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Hancock recorded a new song with Josh Groban and Eric Mouquet (co-founder of Deep Forest), "Machine", which featured on Groban's album Awake
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Released album “The Very Best of Herbie Hancock”.
Released album “Possibilities”.
Hancock toured Europe with a new quartet that included Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke and explored textures ranging from ambient to straight jazz to African music
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance (2004).
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Awarded NEA Jazz Masters (2004).
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Released album “Jazz Moods: ’Round Midnight”.
Released album “The Best of Herbie Hancock: Blue Note Years, Volume 20”.
Released album “Walk On the Wild Side”.
Released album “Rockit”.
And included a second concert from the tour in July 1979
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall (2002).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance (2002).
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Released album “The Herbie Hancock Box”.
Released album “Future 2 Future”.
Released album “Back-to-Back”.
Released album “Mouth Music”.
Hancock recorded Future2Future, which reunited Hancock with Laswell and featured doses of electronica as well as turntablist Rob Swift of the X-Ecutioners
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Hancock partnered with Brecker and Roy Hargrove to record a live concert album saluting Davis and John Coltrane, Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall, recorded live in Toronto
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Released album “Maiden Voyage / Speak Like a Child”.
Released album “Ken Burns Jazz”.
Released album “Nightlife Late Night”.
Released album “The Best of Herbie Hancock: The Hits!”.
Awarded Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album for Gershwin's World (1999).
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Released album “Dancin' Grooves”.
Released album “Backtracks”.
Released album “Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions”.
Released album “Mr Funk”.
Released album “Gershwin’s World”.
Released album “Dr Jazz”.
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for Maiden Voyage (1998).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for Gershwin's World (1998).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals (1998).
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Released album “This Is Jazz 35”.
With his album Gershwin's World, which featured readings of George and Ira Gershwin standards by Hancock and a plethora of guest stars, including Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Shorter
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For Return of the Headhunters, and a version of the band (featuring Clark) continues to play and record
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Released album “1+1”.
Released album “Dance Singles”.
Awarded Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album for The New Standard (1997).
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Released album “Jazz Profile: Herbie Hancock”.
Released album “Ses claviers multicolores”.
Released album “Les Incontournables”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition (1996).
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Released album “The New Standard”.
Released album “Piano Genius”.
Released album “Jazz & Blues Collection 63: Herbie Hancock”.
Released album “The Originals”.
The release of The New Standard had Hancock and an all-star band that included John Scofield, DeJohnette and Michael Brecker, interpreting pop songs by Nirvana, Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Prince, Peter Gabriel, and othe
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Released album “Mwandishi: Complete Warner Bros. Recordings”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for A Tribute to Miles (1994).
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1994).
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Released album “Cantaloupe Island”.
Released album “A Tribute to Miles”.
Appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
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Released album “Dis Is da Drum”.
Released album “The Best of Herbie Hancock, Vol. 2”.
Released album “The Very Best Of”.
Released album “Out of This World”.
Released album “The Collection”.
On their Parallel Realities tour which included a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1990, and scored the 1991 comedy film Livin' Large, which starred Terrence C
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Released album “Jazz Time - 2”.
Released album “Perfect Machine”.
Released album “The Best of Herbie Hancock: The Blue Note Years”.
Awarded César Award for Best Music Written for a Film for Round Midnight (1987).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Score for Round Midnight (1987).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition (1987).
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Released album “Nightwind”.
Hancock performed and acted in the film Round Midnight
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Released album “Village Life”.
Hancock's sister, Jean, a computer consultant and a lyricist who wrote for him; Earth, Wind & Fire; Dianne Reeves; and Booker T
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Hancock performed as a guest on the album So Red the Rose (1985) by the Duran Duran spinoff group Arcadia
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Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Best Concept Video (1984).
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Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction (1984).
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Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects (1984).
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Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing (1984).
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Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Most Experimental Video (1984).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance for Sound-System (1984).
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Released album “Sound-System”.
VSOP II performed at the Playboy Jazz Festival as a sextet with Hancock, Williams, Carter, the Marsalis Brothers, and Bobby McFerrin
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Released album “Future Shock”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance (1983).
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Hancock had a pop hit with the Grammy Award-winning single "Rockit" from the album Future Shock
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Released album “Lite Me Up”.
Hancock contributed to the album New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) by Simple Minds, playing a synthesizer solo on the track "Hunter and the Hunted"
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Released album “Quartet”.
Released album “Magic Windows”.
Recording Herbie Hancock Trio, a five-track album released only in Japan
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Released album “Mr. Hands”.
Released album “A Night With Herbie Hancock”.
Released album “Monster”.
Released album “Directstep”.
Released album “Feets Don’t Fail Me Now”.
Released album “Butterfly”.
Released album “The Piano”.
Released album “Sunlight”.
Released album “Third Plane”.
Hancock recorded a duet with Chick Corea, who replaced him in the Davis band a decade earlier
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After what one critic called due to "perhaps pangs of conscience," he formed VSOP with the Miles Davis classic quintet with Freddie Hubbard in Miles' role
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Released album “Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner”.
Released album “Secrets”.
Released album “Man-Child”.
Released album “Herbie Hancock”.
Without Hancock, while Hancock himself started to make even more commercial albums, often featuring members of the band, but no longer billed as the Headhunters
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Released album “Dedication”.
Released album “Thrust”.
Released album “Head Hunters”.
Released album “Sextant”.
Hancock was commissioned to compose the soundtrack for the controversial film The Spook Who Sat by the Door, based on the novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee, who had grown up in the same neighborhood of Chicago as Ha
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Released album “Crossings”.
Released album “Mwandishi”.
Released album “Jammin’ With Herbie”.
Released album “The Prisoner”.
Hancock composed the soundtrack for Bill Cosby's animated prime-time television special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert
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Released album “Fat Albert Rotunda”.
“Gigi is very compassionate. She really cares about other people. She spends most of her time helping her friends. She has a big heart. At the same time she won”
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Released album “Speak Like a Child”.
Released album “Maiden Voyage”.
Released album “Empyrean Isles”.
Released album “Inventions & Dimensions”.
Released album “My Point of View”.
At the age of 23, Hancock purchased a new 1963 AC Shelby Cobra from a dealership in New York City for $6,000
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Released album “Takin’ Off”.
With degrees in electrical engineering and music
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Hancock heard Chris Anderson play just once and begged him to accept him as a student
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With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (led by CSO assistant conductor George Schick) at the age of 11
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Born 1940-04-12.
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