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HANCOCK Herbie
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Personal Data:

Born:

12.04.1940

(Chicago, USA, as Herbert Jeffrey Hancock)

Appearances:

cca 1962	Donald Byrd Band
1963-70	Miles Davis
1977	Herbie Hancock Quintet
cca 1979	V.S.O.P.
1982	Herbie Hancock Quartet
cca 7/04	Directions In Music

Former Members:

Ray Obiedo (g, cca 1/79); John Mayer (g, cca 6/05); Lionel Loueke (g, cca 6/05)
Paul Jackson (bg, cca 7/76-cca 1/79); Ron Carter (bg, 1977, 1982); Marcus Miller (bg, cca 6/05)
Webster Lewis (kb, cca 1/79)
Tony Williams (ds, 1977, 1982); Alphonse Mouzon (ds, cca 1/79); Terri Lyne Carrington (ds, cca 6/05)
Bill Summers (perc, cca 1/79); Munyungo Jackson (perc, cca 6/05)
Bennie Maupin (sax, cca 7/76-cca 1/79); Wayne Shorter (sax, 1977)
Freddie Hubbard (tr, 1977); Wynton Marsalis (tr, 1982); Roy Hargrove (tr, cca 6/05)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Takin' Off featuring: Dexter Gordon (sax), Freddie Hubbard (tr), Butch Warren (bg), Billy Higgins (ds)	1962	Blue Note
2.	My Point Of View featuring: Donald Byrd (tr), Gracken Moncur (tromb), Hank Mobley (sax), Grant Green (g), Chuck Israels (bg), Tony Williams (2) (ds)	1963	Blue Note
3.	Inventions & Dimensions featuring: Paul Chambers (bg), Willie Bobo (perc), Osvaldo Martinez (perc)	1963	Blue Note
4.	Empyrean Isles featuring: Freddie Hubbard (tr), Ron Carter (bg), Tony Williams (2) (ds)	6/1964	Blue Note
5.	Maiden Voyage featuring: Freddie Hubbard (tr), Ron Carter (bg), Tony Williams (2) (ds), George Coleman (sax)	5/1965	Blue Note
6.	Blow Up & The Yardbirds	5/1967	MGM
7.	Speak Like A Child featuring: Ron Carter (bg), Mickey Roker (ds), Thad Jones (tr), Jerry Dodgion (fl), Peter Phillips (trom)	3/1968	Blue Note
8.	The Prisoner	1969	Blue Note
9.	The Best Of Herbie Hancock	1970	Blue Note
10.	Fat Albert Rotunda featuring: Bennie Maupin (tr), Buster Williams (bg), Billy Hart (ds), Leon Chancler (ds), Julian Priester (trom), Eddie Henderson (tr)	1970	Warner Bros
11.	Mwandishi	1971	Warner Bros
12.	Crossings	2/1971	Warner Bros
13.	Corea, Hancock, Jarrett, Tyner & Chick Corea & Keith Jarrett & Tyner	1972
14.	Sextant	5/1973	Columbia
15.	Head Hunters	13.10.1973	Columbia			13
16.	Blow Up	1974
17.	Dedication	29.07.1974	Columbia
18.	Thrust	9/1974	Columbia			13
19.	Treasure Chest (2LP)	10/1974	Warner Bros
20.	Succotash	1975	Blue Note
21.	Live In Japan	1975	2LP
22.	Water Babies	1975
23.	Hancock	1975	Blue Note
24.	Flood (2LP)	1975	Columbia
25.	Death Wish	21.02.1975	Columbia
26.	Kawaida	15.08.1975	DJM
27.	Man Child	9/1975	Columbia			21
28.	Live Under The Sky	1976
29.	Happy The Man	1976
30.	Secrets	17.09.1976	CBS
31.	Herbie Hancock Trio	1977
32.	Quintet	1977
33.	V.S.O.P. (2LP) produced by: David Rubinson & Friends Inc.	03.06.1977	CBS			79
34.	Tempest In The Colosseum & V.S.O.P.	1978
35.	An Evening With Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea (2LP)	2/1978	Columbia/Legacy			100
36.	Sunlight produced by: David Rubinson & Friends Inc./Herbie Hancock	14.07.1978	Columbia		27	58
37.	Feets Don't Fail Me Now	09.02.1979	Columbia		28	38
38.	In Concert	1979
39.	Direct Step	1979
40.	Butterfly & Kimiko Kasai	1979
41.	Hancock Alley	1980
42.	The Best Of Herbie Hancock	1/1980	CBS
43.	Monster	4/1980	Columbia			94
44.	Swing Of Delight & Carlos Santana (2LP)	9/1980	Columbia		65	65
45.	Mr. Hands	11/1980	Columbia
46.	By All Means & Alphonse Mouzon	4/1981	MPS Jazz
47.	Magic Windows featuring: Ray Parker Jr. (g,ds), George Johnson (g), Adrian Belew (g), Freddie Washington (bg), Louis Johnson (bg), John Robinson (ds), Alphonse Mouzon (ds), Sylvester (voc), Vicki Randle (voc), Gavin Christopher (voc)	10/1981	Columbia
48.	Double Rainbow	1982
49.	Jingle Bells Jazz	1982
50.	Lite Me Up	5/1982	Columbia
51.	Herbie Hancock Quartet (2LP)	1/1983	Columbia
52.	Love Me By Name	1983
53.	Future Shock produced by: Bill Laswell	8/1983	Columbia		27	43
54.	Sound-System produced by: Bill Laswell/Michael Beinhorn featuring: Wayne Shorter (lyricon), Henry Kaiser (g), Nicky Skopelitis (g), Bill Laswell (bg,synths), William Alexander (kb), Bob Stevens (kb), Johnny St.Cyr (DJ), Anton Fier (ds), Hamid Drake (perc), Daniel Ponce (perc), Aiyb Diene (perc), Foday Musa Suso (balafon), Bernard Fowler (voc), Toshinori Kondo (voc)	8/1984	Columbia			71
55.	Hot & Heavy	11/1984	Chase
56.	The Best Of Herbie Hancock	11/1984	Columbia
57.	Village Life & Foday Musa Suso, prod. Bill Laswell	5/1985	Columbia
58.	Round Midnight	1986	Columbia
59.	Perfect Machine produced by: Bill Laswell	6/1988	Columbia
60.	The Collection	1991	Castle
61.	Hot Piano	7/1991	Jazz Collection
62.	Yanarete & Milton Nascimento	1992	Columbia
63.	Cantaloupe Island	7/1994	Blue Note
64.	Live In New York	11/1994	Jazz Door
65.	Mwandishi - The Complete Warner Bros Recordings (2CD)	11/1994	Warner Bros
66.	Dis Is Da Drum	6/1995	Mercury
67.	The New Standard	19.02.1996	Verve
68.	1+1 & Wayne Shorter	7/1997	Verve
69.	This Is Jazz #35	28.04.1998	Columbia
70.	Gershwin's World produced by: Robert Sadin	12.10.1998	Verve
71.	Riot	13.04.1999
72.	HMV Jazz	13.09.1999
73.	Backtracks & Quincy Jones	28.09.1999	Renaissance
74.	The Best Of Herbie Hancock - The Hits!	08.02.2000	Legacy
75.	Ken Burns Jazz - Herbie Hancock	07.11.2000	Legacy
76.	Future 2 Future produced by: Herbie Hancock/Bill Laswell	25.09.2001	Transparent
77.	Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall & Michael Brecker & Roy Hargrove	11.06.2002	Verve
78.	Day Dreams	25.06.2002	Prism
79.	The Herbie Hancock Box	01.10.2002	Legacy
80.	The Spook Who Sat By The Door	08.12.2003	UAR Inc
81.	Jazz Moods: 'Round Midnight	15.06.2004	Sony
82.	Herbie Hancock Box	14.09.2004	Sony
83.	The Piano	21.09.2004	Columbia/Legacy
84.	Trios	14.12.2004	Sony International
85.	Herbie Hancock	07.06.2005	Platinum Disc
86.	Live: Detroit / Chicago	12.07.2005	Hudson Street
87.	Inventions & Dimensions	19.07.2005	Blue Note
88.	Possibilities featuring: John Mayer (g), Sting, Annie Lennox, Carlos Santana, Damien Rice, Trey Anastasio, Paul Simon, Angelique Kidjo, Christina Aguilera	30.08.2005	Vector			22
89.	Left Alone & Eric Dolphy Quintet	07.02.2006	Fruit Tree
90.	Essential Herbie Hancock	28.02.2006	Sony
91.	The Collection: A Selection Of Tracks From The Blue Note Years	06.03.2006	EMI
92.	Blue Note's Great Sessions: Herbie Hancock	04.04.2006	Blue Note
93.	Jazz to Funk	13.06.2006	Aim
94.	Mastercuts	24.04.2007	Mastercuts Artists
95.	Out of This World	08.05.2007	West Wind
96.	Gaslight 1962 & Eric Dolphy Quintet	22.05.2007	Get Back
97.	The Finest In Jazz	25.06.2007	Blue Note
98.	Rock Your Soul	28.08.2007
99.	Jazz Biography	11.09.2007	United Multi Consign
100.	River: The Joni Letters produced by: Herbie Hancock/Larry Klein featuring: Leonard Cohen, Norah Jones, Joni Mitchell, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza, Tina Turner	25.09.2007	Verve Labels			5
101.	Late Night Jazz Favorites	27.05.2008	Cleopatra
102.	Hear O Israel	10.06.2008	Trunk
103.	Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock	23.09.2008	Verve
104.	Playlist: The Very Best of Herbie Hancock	28.10.2008
105.	The Imagine Project featuring: Dave Matthews, Seal, Pink, Jeff Beck, Chieftains, Toumani Diabete, Wayne Shorter, Chaka Khan, India.Arie, Anoushka Shankar, John Legend, Lionel Loueke, Lisa Hannigan	22.06.2010	Univ ersal			54
106.	The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988 (34CD box set)	08.11.2013	Columbia
107.	The Warner Bros Years: 1969-1972 (3CD)	18.07.2014	Warner Bros
108.	Omaha Civic Auditorium: 17th November 1975	19.05.2015	Hi Hat
109.	Bread & Roses Festival, 1978 & Joni Mitchell	07.08.2015	Great American Broadcast Company
110.	Live At The Boston Jazz Workshop 1973 credited to: Herbie Hancock Septet	14.08.2015	Hi Hat
111.	The Herbie Hancock Box (box set)	25.09.2015	Sony Music
112.	Live in Chicago 1977 & Jaco Pastorius	22.01.2016	Forced Exposure
113.	Paul's Mall Jazz Workshop, Boston, November 1973 & The Headhunters	26.08.2016	Hi Hat
114.	The Early Years: Selected Recordings 1961-62	09.09.2016	Acrobat
115.	5 Original Albums	28.10.2016
116.	VSOP II: Tokyo 1983	10.03.2017	Hi Hat
117.	Adam's Apple & Wayne Shorter & Reginald Workman & Joe Chambers	8/2022

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Watermelon Man & Dexter Gordon (with Freddie Hubbard)	3/1963	Blue Note
2.	Blind Man, Blind Man / Blind Man, Blind Man (part 2)	1963	Blue Note
3.	Wiggle-Waggle / Fat Mama	2/1970	Warner Bros
4.	Water Torture / Crossings	3/1972	Warner Bros
5.	Watermelon Man (edit) / Sly (edit)	1/1974	Columbia
6.	Chameleon (edit) / Vein Meter (edit)	3/1974	Columbia		42
7.	Palm Grease / Butterfly (v GB 28.2.75)	11/1974	Columbia
8.	Spank-A-Lee / Actual Proof	2/1975	Columbia
9.	Hang Up Your Hang Ups / Suntouch	10/1975	Columbia
10.	Doin' It / People Music	9/1976	Columbia		104
11.	Spider / Maiden Voyage	6/1977	Columbia
12.	I Thought It Was You / No Means Yes produced by: David Rubinson	8/1978	Columbia	15
13.	Sunlight / Come Running To Me	10/1978	Columbia
14.	You Bet Your Love / Knee Deep	19.01.1979	Columbia	18
15.	Ready Or Not / Trust Me (v USA)	4/1979	Columbia
16.	Tell Everybody / Trust Me (v GB)	4/1979	CBS
17.	Tell Everybody / Honey From The Jar (v USA)	6/1979	Columbia
18.	Doin' It / Honey From The Jar	12/1979	Columbia
19.	Go For It / Trust Me (v USA)	4/1980	Columbia
20.	Go For It / Making Love (v GB)	4/1980	CBS
21.	Stars In Your Eyes / Go For It	5/1980	Columbia
22.	Go For It / Stars In Your Eyes	9/1980	Columbia
23.	Making Love / It All Comes Round	11/1980	Columbia
24.	Everybody's Broke / Help Yourself 12" + Magic Number	10/1981	Columbia
25.	Magic Number / Help Yourself	1/1982	Columbia
26.	Lite Me Up / Satisfied With Love	4/1982	Columbia
27.	I Thought It Was You / No Means Yes (reissue)	5/1982	Columbia
28.	The Fun Tracks / Give It All Your Heart (v GB)	7/1982	CBS
29.	The Fun Tracks / Gettin' To The Good Part (v USA)	7/1982	Columbia
30.	Paradise / The Fun Tracks	1/1983	Columbia
31.	Rockit / Rockit (part 2)	7/1983	Columbia		71
32.	Rockit / Rough	7/1983	CBS	6
33.	Autodrive / The Bomb 12" + Chameleon	23.09.1983	Columbia	24
34.	Future Shock / Earthbeat 12" + Herbie Hancock Megamix: Rockit / Autodrive / Future Shock / TFS / Rough / Chameleon	1/1984	Columbia	54
35.	Hardrock / Hardrock (version)	7/1984	Columbia
36.	Hardrock / TFS produced by: Bill Laswell/Michael Beinhorn	7/1984	CBS	46
37.	Metal Beat / Karabali	9/1984	Columbia
38.	You Bet Your Love / I Thought It Was You	9/1985	Old Gold
39.	Tell Everybody / Trust Me (reissue)	4/1986	CBS
40.	Vibe Alive / Maiden Voyage	5/1988	Columbia
41.	Beat Wise / Chemical Residue	9/1988	Columbia
42.	The Essence (Joe Clausell remixes) / Bonita / Drumming	24.09.2001	Transparent Music
	The Essence (LTJ Bukem, DJ Krush remixes) / Future 2 Future (album mix)	24.09.2001	Transparent Music
43.	Rockit / I Thought It Was You (reissue)	29.04.2002	Vinyl Junkie
	Rockit (Coldcut remix, Bill Laswell remix featuring Mixmaster Mike, DXT, Rob Swift, Qbert, Babu. Faust & Shortee)	29.04.2002	Transparent Music
44.	The Disco-Tech Of Julien Jabre (Stars In Your Eyes / I Want You For Myself / Rude Movements / The Garden / Delivrance) & George Duke & Sun Palace & Blaze & Julien Jabre	07.04.2003	Yellow
45.	Rockit (reissue)	09.06.2003	Columbia
46.	Rockit (Herbie Hancock meets Coldcut - full length version) press (re)	14.03.2005	Transparent Music
47.	Funk For Your Face #03 EP (I Thought It Was U (Barna Soundmachine remix) / Change (Barna Soundmachine remix) / Megamix #01: Let's Funk Tonite) & Mr White & Barna Soundmachine & Kimko Kasai	03.07.2006	Blind Test
48.	Saturday Night / Esperitu Libre (Beatconductor rework) & Mongo Santamaria	12.03.2007	Gamm
49.	Wiggle Waggle / Fat Mama	24.09.2007	Warner Bros
50.	Bring Down The Birds	22.12.2008	MGM
51.	Supreme Edits 777 EP (Fear (Prins T & Wade Nichols edit) / Magic Number (edit) / Life's A Jungle) & Kikrokos & Easy Going	01.04.2011	Supreme
52.	Twilight Clone / Just Around The Corner	01.05.2014	Boogie Down
53.	The Mighty Tree & 9th Wonder & Kamasi Washington & Robert Glasper & Rapsody & Terrace Martin	10/2020	Empire

Videos:

1. Future 2 Future - 26.11.2002, Legacy
2. The Jazz Channel Presents Herbie Hancock - 24.10.2009, UMC

Bibliography:

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (23.10.2014, Viking)

Awards:

1983 Grammy Awards - Best R&B Instrumental Performance (SP "Rockit")
1984 Grammy Awards - Best R&B Instrumental Performance (LP "Sound-System")
1987 Grammy Awards - Best Instrumental Composition (track "Call Sheet Blues", & Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter & Billy Higgins)
1994 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group ("A Tribute To Miles", & Ron Carter, Wallace Roney, Wayne Shorter & Tony Williams)
1996 Grammy Awards - Best Instrumental Composition (track "Manhattan (Island Of Lights And Love)", & Jean Hancock)
1997 Grammy Awards - Best Instrumental Composition (track "Aung San Suu Kyi", & Wayne Shorter)
1998 Grammy Awards

- Best Male R&B Vocal Performance (Stevie Wonder: St. Louis Blues, track from LP "Gershwin's World")
- Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group ("Gershwin's World")
- Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) (track "St. Louis Blues", & Robert Sadin & Stevie Wonder)

1999 Grammy Hall Of Fame ("Maiden Voyage")
2002 Grammy Awards

- Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (track "My Ship")
- Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group ("Directions In Music", & Michael Brecker & Roy Hargrove)

2004 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (track "Speak Like A Child")
2007 Grammy Awards

- Album Of The Year ("River: The Joni Letters")
- Best Contemporary Jazz Album ("River: The Joni Letters")

2009 Grammy Hall Of Fame (LP "Head Hunters", 1973)
2010 Grammy Awards

- Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals (track "Imagine", & Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare)
- Best Improvized Jazz Solo (track "A Change Is Gonna Come")

2016 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Various:

2000 own label Transparent Music

appeared on the LP:

Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil (12/64, Blue Note)
Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye (3/65, Blue Note)
Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple (2/66, Blue Note)
Wayne Shorter: Schizophrenia (3/67, Blue Note)
George Benson: White Rabbit (11/71, CTI)
Wayne Shorter & Milton Nascimento: Native Dancer (6/75, Columbia)
Wayne Shorter: Etcetera (3/81, Liberty)
Alphonse Mouzon: Morning Sun (11/81, London)
Material: The Third Power (7/91, Axiom)
Guru: Guru's Jazzmatazz: StreetSoul (3.10.00, Virgin)
Traffic OST (9.1.01, TVT)
Marcus Miller: M2 (22.5.01, Telarc Jazz)
Queen Latifah: The Dana Owens Album (28.9.04, Vector)
Stephen Stills: Man Alive (9.8.05, Pyramid)
Paul Simon: Surprise (9.5.06, Warner Bros)
George Benson & Al Jarreau: Givin' It Up (24.10.06, Concord)
Josh Groban: Awake (7.11.06, Reprise)
Norah Jones: ...Featuring (2.11.10, Blue Note)
Flying Lotus: You're Dead! (6.10.14, Warp)

Compilation Appearances:

"I'm Gonna Be A Wheel" on charity compilation "Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino" (25.9.07, Vanguard, George Porter Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste & Renard Poche)

Press References:

&musiQ
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
2002	9		36	Festivaly - Montreux Jazz Festiv	gig review
Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1980	5		141
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1973	33	18.08.1973	46	Caught In The Act	gig review
1974	44	02.11.1974	34	Caught In The Act	gig review
1976	30	24.07.1976	18	Soul Food	interview
1976	33	14.08.1976	26	Caught In The Act	gig review
1977	28	09.07.1977	24	Jazz Albums	album review
1977	52	24.12.1977	10		interview
1978	8	25.02.1978	18	Caught In The Act	gig review
1978	44	18.11.1978	14		interview
1979	2	13.01.1979	4
1980	4	26.01.1980	24	Albums	album review
1982	19	08.05.1982	23	Singles	single review
1983	33	13.08.1983	27		interview
1983	34	20.08.1983	24	Albums	album review
1983	38	17.09.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	39	24.09.1983	22	Singles	single review
1983	52	24.12.1983	16	Videodrome
1984	1	07.01.1984	14	It's Alive	gig review
1984	5	04.02.1984	13	It's Alive!	gig review
1984	24	28.07.1984	4	Fast Forward - Record News
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1974	0	23.11.1974	34
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1994	19	27.09.1994	7	Galerie
1997	9		112	Recenze - Atd	album review
1998	8		117	Recenze - Jazz Café	album review
1998	9		115	Recenze - Jazz Café	album review
1998	12		116	Recenze - Jazz Café	album review
2001	9		14	Pelmel
2002	2		86	Jazz Café	album review
2006	1		87	Jazz Café	album review
Rolling Stone
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
2000	6		85	12 nej ...