Who is Herbie Hancock

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Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois) 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.

Herbie's achievement



Academy Awards
1986, Original Soundtrack, for Round Midnight

Grammy Awards
1984, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Rockit
1985, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Sound-System
1988, Best Instrumental Composition, for Call Sheet Blues
1995, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group, for A Tribute to Miles
1997, Best Instrumental Composition, for Manhattan (Island Of Lights And Love)
1999, Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s), for St. Louis Blues
1999, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group, for Gershwin's World
2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, for Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for My Ship
2005, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for Speak Like a Child
2008, Album of the Year, for River: The Joni Letters
2008, Best Contemporary Jazz Album, for River: The Joni Letters

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
Best Jazz Pianist, 1988

Other notable awards
MTV Awards (5 awards in total) - Best Concept Video - Rockit, 1983–84
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 Award "Round 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
Soul Train Music Award "Best Jazz Album - The New Standard", 1997
Festival International Jazz de Montreal Prix Miles Davis, 1997
VH1's 100 Greatest Videos "Rockit" is "10th Greatest Video", 2001
NEA Jazz Masters Award, 2004
Downbeat Magazine Readers Poll Hall of Fame, 2005
Album of the Year, 2007
Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year, 2008


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