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'''Round Midnight. He also wrote the score/soundtrack, for which he won an Academy Award for Original Music Score. Often he would write music for TV commercials. "Maiden Voyage", in fact, started out as a cologne advertisement. At the end of the Perfect Machine tour, Hancock decided to leave Columbia Records after a 15-plus-year relationship.
As of June 2005, almost half of his Columbia recordings have been remastered
. The first three US releases, Sextant, Head Hunters and Thrust as well as the last four releases Future Shock, Sound-System, the soundtrack to Round Midnight and Perfect Machine. Everything released in America from Man-Child to Quartet has yet to be remastered. Some albums, made and initially released in the US, were remastered between 1999 and 2001 in other countries such as Magic Windows and Monster. Hancock also re-released some of his Japan-only releases in the West, such as The Piano.
1990s and later.
After leaving Columbia, Hancock took a break. In 1991, three years after Perfect Machine was released, his mentor Miles Davis, died. Along with friends Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, and Davis admirer Wallace Roney, they recorded A Tribute to Miles which was released in 1994. The album contained two live recordings and studio recording classics with Roney playing Davis's part as trumpet player. The album won a Grammy for best group album. He also toured with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and Pat Metheny in 1990 on their Parallel Realities tour, which included a memorable performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1990.
Hancock's next album, Dis Is Da Drum released in 1994 saw him return to Acid Jazz. 1995's The New Standard found him and an all-star band including John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette and Michael Brecker interpreting pop songs by Nirvana, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Prince, Peter Gabriel and others. A 1997 duet album with Wayne Shorter titled 1 + 1 was successful, the song "Aung San Suu Kyi" winning the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, and Hancock also achieved great success in 1998 with his album ''Gershwin's World which featured inventive readings of George & Ira Gershwin standards by Hancock and a plethora of guest stars including Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Shorter.
In 2001, Hancock recorded Future2Future, which reunited Hancock with Bill Laswell and featured doses of electronica as well as turntablist Rob Swift of The X-Ecutioners. Hancock later toured with the band, and released a live concert DVD with a different lineup which also included the "Rockit" music video. Also in 2001, Hancock partnered with Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove to record a live concert album saluting Davis and John Coltrane called Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall recorded live in Toronto. The threesome then toured together, and have toured on and off through 2005.
2005 saw the release of a duet album called Possibilities. It features duets with Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Sting and others. In 2006, Possibilities was nominated for Grammy awards in two categories: "A Song For You," featuring Christina Aguilera was nominated in the Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals category, and "Gelo No Montanha," featuring Trey Anastasio on guitar was nominated in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance category. Neither nomination resulted in an award.
Also in 2005, Hancock toured Europe with a new quartet that included Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke, and explored textures ranging from ambient to straight jazz to African music. Plus, during the Summer of 2005, Hancock re-staffed the famous Head Hunters and went on tour with them, including a performance at The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.
However, this lineup did not consist of any of the original Headhunters musicians. The group included Marcus Miller, Terri Lyne Carrington, Lionel Loueke and John Mayer. Hancock also served as the first artist in residence for Bonnaroo that summer.
Also in 2006, Sony BMG Music Entertainment (which bought out Hancock's old label, Columbia Records) released the two-disc retrospective The Essential Herbie Hancock. This two-disc set is the first compilation of Herbie's work at Warner Bros. Records, Blue Note Records, Columbia and at Verve/Polygram. This became Hancock's second major compilation of work since the 2002 Columbia-only "The Herbie Hancock Box" which was released at first in a plastic 4x4 cube then re-released in 2004 in a long box set. Hancock also in 2006, recorded a new song with Josh Groban and Eric Mouquet (co-founder of Deep Forest) titled "Machine". It is featured on Josh Groban's CD "Awake." Hancock also recorded and improvised with guitarist Lionel Loueke on Loueke's debut album Virgin Forest on the ObliqSound label in 2006, resulting in two improvisational tracks "Le Réveil des Agneaux (The Awakening of the Lambs)" and "La Poursuite du lion (The Lion's Pursuit)".
Hancock, a longtime associate and friend of Joni Mitchell released a 2007 album, River: The Joni Letters, that paid tribute to her work. Norah Jones and Tina Turner recorded vocals, as did Corinne Bailey Rae, and Leonard Cohen contributed a spoken piece set to Hancock's piano. Mitchell herself also made an appearance. The album was released on September 25, simultaneously with the release of Mitchell's album Shine. "River" was nominated for and won the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy Award, only the second jazz album ever to receive either honor. The album also won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, and the song "Both Sides Now" was nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Solo.
Recently Hancock performed at the Shriner's Children's Hospital Charity Fundraiser with Sheila E, Jim Brickman, Kirk Whalum and Wendy Alane Wright.
Discography As a leader - ''Takin' Off (1962) – Blue Note
- My Point of View (1963) – Blue Note
- Inventions and Dimensions (1963) – Blue Note
- Empyrean Isles (1964) – Blue Note
- Maiden Voyage (1965) – Blue Note
- Blow-Up (Soundtrack) (1966) – MGM
- Speak Like a Child (1968) – Blue Note
- The Prisoner (1969) – Blue Note
- Fat Albert Rotunda (1969) – Warner Bros.
- Mwandishi (1970) – Warner Bros.
- Crossings (1972) – Warner Bros.
- Sextant (1973) – Columbia
- Head Hunters (1973) – Columbia
- The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Soundtrack) (1973)
- Thrust (1974) – Columbia
- Death Wish (Soundtrack) (1974) – Columbia
- Dedication (1974) – Columbia
- Man-Child (1975) – Columbia
- Flood (1975) – Columbia – live album only released in Japan
- Secrets (1976) – Columbia
- VSOP (1976) – Columbia
- VSOP: The Quintet (1977) – Columbia
- VSOP: Tempest at the Colosseum (1977) – Columbia
- Sunlight (1978) – Columbia
- Direct Step (1978) – Columbia
- An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978) – Columbia
- The Piano (1979) – Columbia
- ''Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979) – Columbia
- VSOP: Live Under the Sky (1979) – Columbia
- Monster (1980) – Columbia
- Mr. Hands (1980) – Columbia
- Herbie Hancock Trio (1981) – Columbia
- Magic Windows (1981) – Columbia
- Lite Me Up (1982) – Columbia
- Quartet (1982) – Columbia
- Future Shock (1983) – Columbia
- Sound-System (1984) – Columbia
- Village Life (1985) - Columbia (with Foday Musa Suso)
- Round Midnight (Soundtrack) (1986) – Columbia
- Perfect Machine (1988) – Columbia
- A Tribute to Miles (1994) – Qwest/Warner Bros. (with Wallace Roney, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams)
- Dis Is Da Drum (1994) – Verve/Mercury
- The New Standard (1995) – Verve
- 1 + 1 (1997) – Verve (with Wayne Shorter)
- ''Gershwin's World (1998) – Verve
- Mr. Funk (2001) - Columbia
- Future2Future (2001) – Transparent
- Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall (2002) – Verve
- Possibilities (2005) – Concord/Hear Music
- The Essential Herbie Hancock (2006) – Columbia/Sony BMG
- River: The Joni Letters (2007) – Verve
There are also these albums: Cantaloupe Island (CDP724382933120), Jazz To Funk (AI432) & Piano Genius (QED076)
As a sideman To Miles Davis:
- Seven Steps to Heaven (1963) – Columbia (on portions of album)
- E.S.P. (1965) – Columbia
- Miles Smiles (1966) – Columbia
- Sorcerer (1967) – Columbia
- Nefertiti (1967) – Columbia
- Miles in the Sky (1968) – Columbia
- Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968) – Columbia
- In a Silent Way (1969) – Columbia
- A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1970) – Columbia
- On the Corner (1972) – Columbia
- Big Fun (album) (1974) - Columbia (on portions of album)
- Get Up with It (1974) - Columbia (on portions of album)
- Water Babies (1976) (recorded in 1968) - Columbia
To Donald Byrd:
- Royal Flush (1961) - Blue Note
- Free Form (1961) - Blue Note
- A New Perspective (1963) - Blue Note
To Bobby Hutcherson:
- Components (1965) - Blue Note
- Happenings (1966) - Blue Note
- Oblique (1979 Japan Only) - Blue Note
To Jackie McLean:
- ''It's Time (1964) - Blue Note
To Freddie Hubbard:
- Hub-Tones (1962) - Blue Note
To Sam Rivers:
- Contours (1965) - Blue Note
To Grant Green:
- ''Feelin' the Spirit (1962) - Blue Note
To Lee Morgan:
- Search for the New Land (1964) - Blue Note
- Cornbread: (1965) - Blue Note
- The Procrastinator (1967) - Blue Note
To Kenny Dorham:
- Una Mas (1963) - Blue Note
To Joe Henderson:
- Power to the People (Milestone 1969)
- Double Rainbow: The Music Of Antonio Carlos Jobim (1994)
To Joni Mitchell:
- Travelogue (2002) - Nonesuch records
To Hank Mobley:
- No Room For Squares (1963) - Blue Note
To Milt Jackson:
- Sunflower (1972) – CTI/Columbia
To Wayne Shorter:
- Speak No Evil (1964) - Blue Note
- ''Adam's Apple (1966) - Blue Note
- Schizophrenia (1967) - Blue Note
- Native Dancer (1974) – Columbia
- Etcetera (1995) - Blue Note
To Grachan Moncur III:
- Some Other Stuff (1964) - Blue Note
To Tony Williams:
- Lifetime (1964) - Blue Note
- The Joy of Flying (1979) – Columbia
To Ron Carter:
- Third Plane (1996) – Columbia
To Terry Plumeri
- He Who Lives In Many Places (1971) – (original- Airborne) (re-released in 2007- GMMC)
To/With Quincy Jones:
- Sounds...and Stuff Like That (1978) – A&M
To/With Quincy Jones and Lesley Gore:
- Love Me By Name (1975) - A&M
To Stevie Wonder:
- Songs in the Key of Life (1976) - Motown
To Jaco Pastorius:
- Jaco Pastorius (1976) - Epic/Legacy (Sony Music)
To Jack DeJohnette:
- Parallel Realities (1990, with Pat Metheny and Dave Holland) - MCA
To Miroslav Vitous:
- Magical Shepherd (1976) - Warner
To/With Simple Minds:
- ''Synthesizer solo on 'New Gold Dream', track: 'Hunter And The Hunted
To/With Marcus Miller:
- M² (2001), plays piano on two tracks (including a solo on Goodbye Pork Pie Hat)
To/With Lionel Loueke:
- Virgin Forest (2006) - ObliqSound - Improvisational duets with Loueke on two tracks: Le Réveil des Agneaux (The Awakening of the Lambs) and La poursuite du Lion (The Lion's Pursuit)'
AwardsAcademy Awards- 1986, Original Soundtrack, for Round Midnight
Grammy Awards- 1983, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Rockit
- 1984, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Sound-System
- 1987, Best Instrumental Composition, for Call Sheet Blues
- 1994, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group, for A Tribute to Miles
- 1996, Best Instrumental Composition, for Manhattan (Island Of Lights And Love)
- 1998, Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s), for St. Louis Blues
- 1998, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group, for ''Gershwin's World
- 2002, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, for Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
- 2002, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for My Ship
- 2004, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for Speak Like a Child
- 2008, Best Contemporary Jazz Album, for River: The Joni Letters
- 2008, Album of the Year, 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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