Herbie Hancock

Sound

Born 1940-04-12 Chicago, Illinois, USA 117 credits Academy Awards 1 Grammy Awards 14 Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album 2 Grammy Hall of Fame 2 Library of Congress Living Legend 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won

1987 Best Original Score Won 'Round Midnight, Round Midnight

Golden Globe Awards 1 nominated

1986 Best Original Score Nominated Round Midnight

BAFTA Awards 1 nominated

1987 Best Original Music Nominated Round Midnight

Grammy Awards 14 won · 7 nominated

2010 Best Jazz Performance Won
2010 Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals Nominated
2010 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Won
2007 Best Contemporary Jazz Album Won River: The Joni Letters
2007 Album of the Year Won River: The Joni Letters
2005 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Nominated
2005 Best Pop Instrumental Performance Nominated
2004 Best Jazz Performance Won
2002 Best Jazz Instrumental Album Won Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
2002 Best Jazz Performance Won
1998 Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals Won
1998 Best Jazz Instrumental Album Won Gershwin's World
1996 Best Instrumental Composition Won
1995 Best Music Video Nominated
1994 Best Jazz Instrumental Album Won A Tribute to Miles
1987 Best Rock Instrumental Performance Nominated
1987 Best Instrumental Composition Won
1984 Best R&B Instrumental Performance Won Sound-System
1983 Best R&B Instrumental Performance Won
1979 Best R&B Instrumental Performance Nominated
1974 Best Pop Instrumental Performance Nominated Head Hunters

Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album 2 won · 1 nominated

1999 Best Jazz Album Won Gershwin's World
1997 Best Jazz Album Won The New Standard
1995 Best Jazz Album Nominated A Tribute to Miles

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Duo or Group 2 nominated

2013 Outstanding Duo or Group Nominated
2011 Outstanding Duo or Group Nominated

Grammy Hall of Fame 2 won

2008 Grammy Hall of Fame Won Head Hunters
1998 Grammy Hall of Fame Won Maiden Voyage

Library of Congress Living Legend 1 won

— Library of Congress Living Legend Won

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Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award after Getz/Gilberto in 1965. As a member of Soka Gakkai, Hancock is an adherent of the Nichiren school of Mahayana Buddhism.