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Known For
Sound
Birthday
April 12, 1940
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
- Herbert Hancock
Herbie Hancock
0.9 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
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Self (Archives)
Herbie
2025
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Self
Don Lewis and The Live Electronic Orchestra
2024
8.5
Self
They All Came Out to Montreux
2023
9.0
Self
Joni Mitchell - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song
2023
7.0
Self
Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes
2022
🎬
0.0
Self
Herbie Hancock - Live at SummerStage 2022
2022
7.0
Self
Hargrove
2022
5.0
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
3.3
Self
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
2020
8.8
Self
That Click
2019
Credits
Herbie
as Self (Archives)
2025
0.0
Don Lewis and The Live Electronic Orchestra
as Self
2024
0.0
They All Came Out to Montreux
as Self
2023
8.5
Joni Mitchell - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song
as Self
2023
9.0
Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes
as Self
2022
7.0
🎬
Herbie Hancock - Live at SummerStage 2022
as Self
2022
0.0
Hargrove
as Self
2022
7.0
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
5.0
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
as Self
2020
3.3
That Click
as Self
2019
8.8
Buster Williams Bass to Infinity
as Himself
2019
0.0
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician
2019
7.2
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
as Self
2019
6.9
International Jazz Day Australia Concert 2019
as Self
2019
8.0
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
as Self
2018
7.0
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
as Self
2018
8.2
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Defence Minister
2017
6.6
Chick Corea: The Musician
as Self
2017
0.0
More Than Jazz
as Himself
2016
0.0
Jazz at the White House
as Self
2016
0.0
River of Gold
as Narrator
2016
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Miles Ahead
as Live Concert Band
2016
6.4
Kareem: Minority of One
as Self
2015
7.2
Jay Leno's Garage
as Self
2015
7.3
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
as Self
2015
6.6
Marcus
as Self
2015
6.0
🎬
Herbie Hancock Trio - Full Concert - 08/14/88 - Newport Jazz Festival
as Self
2014
0.0
Charles Lloyd - Arrows Into Infinity
as Piano
2014
6.0
Girl Meets World
as Self
2014
8.3
Keep On Keepin' On
as Self
2014
7.1
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Experience Montreux
as Self
2013
0.0
Lang Lang & Herbie Hancock - Live in Berlin
as Himself
2012
7.5
Gustavo Dudamel and Herbie Hancock Celebrate Gershwin
2011
0.0
The Girls in the Band
2011
6.2
A Man's Story
as Self
2011
6.9
🎬
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
as Self
2011
0.0
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
as Piano
2011
0.0
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself
2011
6.0
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
as Performer
2011
5.6
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
6.3
Music
as Self
2010
0.0
🎬
DeJohnette, Metheny, Holland, Hancock - Parallel Realities Live
as Himself
2010
8.0
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
as Self
2009
4.6
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
as Self
2008
3.8
Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux
as Self
2008
6.2
Herbie Hancock - The River Of Possibilities Tour - Jazz a Vienne
as Piano
2008
0.0
Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound
as Self
2008
0.0
Marcus Miller - Master Of All Trades
as Self
2006
4.2
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
as Self
2006
5.4
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue
as Self
2004
6.0
🎬
Herbie Hancock Special
2004
0.0
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
as Self
2004
7.5
One Night with Blue Note
as Self
2004
6.9
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
2004
7.0
Larry presents: Best of The 80s
as Self
2004
0.0
Prachtig 80: Volume 2
as Self
2003
0.0
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
as Self
2003
5.9
Hitters
as District Attorney
2002
2.8
World of Rhythm: Live in Lugano
as Self
2002
0.0
The Jazz Channel Presents Herbie Hancock
as Himself
2002
0.0
Herbie Hancock Future2future Live
as Himself
2002
3.8
Herbie Hancock: Jazz Channel
as Herbie Hancock
2001
4.5
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
as Self
1997
7.2
Classic Albums
as Self
1997
7.7
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
1996
10.0
Kulturzeit
as self
1995
3.5
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
as Self
1995
0.0
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Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute
as Self - Pianist
1995
0.0
Indecent Proposal
as Himself
1993
6.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
🎬
ECHO-Verleihung
as Self
1992
0.0
The Neville Brothers: Tell It Like It Is
1991
8.5
Miles Davis - At La Villette
as Himself
1991
4.2
Branford Marsalis: Steep
as Self
1991
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Dejohnette, Hancock, Holland and Metheny in Concert
1990
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Jazz Under the Skies
as Self
1990
0.0
Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland: Parallel Realities Live... (Live at Mellon Jazz Festival)
as Keyboards
1990
0.0
Celebrity Guide to Wine
as Self
1990
10.0
Live at Munich Summer Piano Festiva
1988
0.0
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Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
as Himself
1987
0.0
🎬
Herbie Hancock At The Munich Summer Piano Festival
as Himself
1987
6.0
🎬
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
as Self
1986
0.0
'Round Midnight
as Eddie Wayne
1986
7.1
Before Midnight
as Self (archive footage)
1986
4.0
The Making of Sun City
as Self
1985
9.0
I Love Quincy
as Self
1984
0.0
Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!
as Self - Piano
1984
0.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
1975
7.0
PBS Soundstage 1974: Chick Corea & Return to Forever + Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters
1974
0.0
Rock Concert
as Self
1973
8.0
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
as Self
1972
6.5
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
1964
0.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Grammys
as Self
1959
8.6
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Herbie Hancock And The Rockit Band Live in London
as Themself
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Herbie Hancock And The Rockit Band
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