American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor

Herbie Hancock

Jazz Funk Jazz fusion Disco Soul jazz Soul music Blues Jazz Bebop Jazz fusion Post-bop Modal jazz Funk Hard bop Electro Jazz-funk Rhythm and blues Pop rock Western classical music

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American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor

Genres

Jazz Funk Jazz fusion Disco Soul jazz Soul music Blues Jazz Bebop Jazz fusion Post-bop Modal jazz Funk Hard bop Electro Jazz-funk Rhythm and blues Pop rock Western classical music

Record Labels

Blue Note Columbia Records Verve Records Mercury Records PolyGram Sony BMG Warner Bros. Records

Awards Received

Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance

MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing

MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction

MTV Video Music Award for Best Concept Video

MTV Video Music Award for Most Experimental Video

Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance

MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects

Academy Award for Best Original Score

César Award for Best Music Written for a Film

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition

Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals

Grammy Hall of Fame

Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album

Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Grammy Award for Album of the Year

Grammy Hall of Fame

Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

Kennedy Center Honors

Library of Congress Living Legend

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Nominated For

Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year MTV Video Music Award for Best Concept Video MTV Video Music Award for Most Experimental Video MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction MTV Video Music Award – Viewer's Choice Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Score Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance César Award for Best Music Written for a Film BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album Grammy Award for Best Music Video Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance Grammy Award for Album of the Year Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Duo or Group NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Duo or Group NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Album

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Member of, past and present

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer, and actor. Hancock started his career with Donald Byrd. He shortly thereafter 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, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles.

Hancock's best-known compositions include the jazz standards "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon", as well as the hit 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 to win the award, after Getz/Gilberto in 1965.

Since 2012, Hancock has served as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He is also the chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz (known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz until 2019).