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EFTA00315128 | EFTA00315143 HERBIE HANCOCK Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his explorations, he has transcended limitations and genres while maintaining his unmistakable voice. With an illustrious career spanning five decades and 14 Grammy* Awards, including Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters, he continues to amaze audiences across the globe. There are few artists in the music industry who have had more influence on acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B than Herbie Hancock. As the immortal Miles Davis said in his autobiography, "Herbie was the step after Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and I haven't heard anybody yet who has come after him." Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. He also developed a passion for electronics and science, and double-majored in music and electrical engineering at Grinnell College. In 1960, Herbie was discovered by trumpeter Donald Byrd. After two years of session work with Byrd as well as Phil Woods and Oliver Nelson, he signed with Blue Note as a solo artist. His 1963 debut album, 'Takin' Off', was an immediate success, producing the hit "Watermelon Man." In 1963, Miles Davis invited Herbie to join the Miles Davis Quintet. During his five years with Davis, Herbie and his colleagues Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums) recorded many classics, including `ESP', `Nefertiti' and `Sorcerer. Later on, Herbie made appearances on Davis' groundbreaking 'In a Silent Way' and 'Bitches Brew, which heralded the birth ofjazz-fusion. Herbie's own solo career blossomed on Blue Note, Bill Laswell. The first, `Future Shock', again struck platinum, and the single "Rockit" rocked the dance and R&B charts, winning a Grammy for Best R&B Instrumental. The video of the track won five MTV awards. 'Sound System, the follow-up, also received a Grammy in the R&B instrumental category. Herbie won an Oscar in 1986 for scoring the film "'Round Midnight", in which he also appeared as an actor. Numerous television appearances over the years led to two hosting assignments in the 198os: "Rock School" on PBS and Showtime's "Coast To Coast". After an adventurous 1994 project for Mercury Records, `Dis Is Da Drum, he moved to the Verve label, forming an all-star band to record 1996's Grammywinning 'The New Standard'. In 1997, an album of duets with Wayne Shorter, `1+1, was released. The legendary Headhunters reunited in 1998, recording an album for Herbie's own Verve-distributed imprint, and touring with the Dave Matthews Band. That year also marked the recording and release of 'Gershwin's World', which included collaborators Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Kathleen Battle, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea. tershwin's World' won three Grammys in 1999, including Best Traditional Jazz Album and Best R&B Vocal Performance for Stevie Wonder's "St. Louis Blues." Herbie reunited with Bill Laswell to collaborate with some young hip-hop and techno artists on zom's FUTURE2FUTURE. He also joined with Roy Hargrove and Michael Brecker in toot to record a live concert album, 'Directions In Musk: Live at Massey Hall', a tribute to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. `Possibilities', released in August zoos, teamed with classic albums including 'Maiden Voyage, `Empyrean Herbie with many popular artists, such as Sting, Annie Lennox, Isles, and 'Speak Like a Child'. He composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film `Blow Up, which led to John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, Joss Stone and Damien Rice. That year, he played a number a successful career in feature film and television music. of concert dates with a re-staffed Headhunters, After leaving Davis, Herbie put together a new band called The Headhunters and, in 1973, recorded 'Head and became the first-ever Artist-In-Residence at the Tennessee-based festival Bonnaroo. Hunters.' With its crossover hit single "Chameleon," In tow, Hancock recorded and released `River: The music to express its central themes of peace and global responsibility, the 'Imagine' project was recorded around the world and features a stellar group of musicians including Jeff Beck, Seal,Pink, Dave Matthews, The Chieftains, Lionel Loueke, Oumou Sangare, Konono #1, Anoushka Shankar, Chaka Khan, Marcus Miller, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Tinariwen, and Ceu. Herbie Hancock also maintains a thriving career outside the performing stage and recording studio. Recently named by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Creative Chair For Jazz, he currently also serves as Institute Chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, the foremost international organization devoted to the development of jazz performance and education worldwide. Hancock is also a founder of The International Committee of Artists for Peace, and was recently awarded the much esteemed "Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres" by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon. In July of ton Hancock was designated a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova. Recognizing Herbie Hancock's "dedication to the promotion of peace through dialogue, culture and the arts," the Director-General has asked the celebrated jazz musician "to contribute to UNESCO's efforts to promote mutual it became the first jazz album to go platinum. By mid-decade, Herbie was playing for stadium-sized Joni Letters', a tribute to longtime friend and collaborator Joni Mitchell featuring Wayne Shorter, guitarist Lionel Loueke, crowds all over the world and had no fewer than four albums in bassist Dave Holland and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and co- fostering the emergence of new and creative ideas amongst youth, to find solutions to global problems, as well as ensuring the pop charts at once. In total, Herbie had 11 albums in the pop charts during the 19705. His '7os output inspired and provided produced by Larry Klein. He enlisted vocalists Norah Jones, equal access to the diversity of artistic expressions." UNESCO's Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza, Leonard Cohen and Mitchell herself to perform songs she wrote or was Goodwill Ambassadors are an outstanding group of celebrity advocates who have generously accepted to use their talent inspired by. The album received glowing reviews and was a and status to help focus the world's attention on the objectives year-end Top to choice for many critics. It also garnered three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; Herbie is one and aims of UNESCO's work in its fields of competence: education, culture, science and communication/information samples for generations of hip-hop and dance music artists. Herbie also stayed close to his love of acoustic jazz in the '7os, recording and performing with VSOP (reuniting him with his Miles Davis colleagues), and in duet settings with Chick Corea and Oscar Peterson. In 198o, Herbie introduced the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to the world as a solo artist, producing his debut album and touring with him as well. In 1983, a new pull to the alternative side led Herbie to a series of collaborations with of only a handful of jazz musicians ever to receive that honor. In tow Hancock released the critically-acclaimed CD, 'Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project,' winner of two understanding among cultures, with a particular emphasis on Now in the fifth decade of his professional life, Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: in the forefront of world culture, technology, business and music. toll Grammy Awards for Best Pop Collaboration and Best Though one can't track exactly where he will go next, he is Improvised Jazz Solo. Utilizing the universal language of sure to leave his inimitable imprint wherever he lands. EFTA00315143
April 27, 2026 at 6:15 AM