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 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 2011: Best Improvised Jazz Solo, for A Change Is Gonna Come 2011: Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, for Imagine Other awards Keyboard Readers' Poll: Best Jazz Pianist (1987, 1988); Keyboardist (1983, 1987) Playboy Music Poll: Best Jazz Group (1985), Best Jazz Album Rockit (1985), Best Jazz Keyboards (1985, 1986), Best R&B Instrumentalist (1987), Best Jazz Instrumentalist (1988) MTV Awards (5), Best Concept Video, "Rockit", 1983–'84 Gold Note Jazz Awards – New York Chapter of the National Black MBA Association, 1985 French Award Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters, 1985 BMI Film Music Award, Round Midnight, 1986 Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music, 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 Miles Davis Award, Montreal International Jazz Festival, 1997 Soul Train Music Award, Best Jazz Album – The New Standard, 1997 VH1's 100 Greatest Videos, "Rockit" is 10th Greatest Video, 2001 NEA Jazz Masters Award, 2004 Downbeat Readers' Poll Hall of Fame, 2005 Kennedy Center Honors, 2013 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts), 2018 References External links Herbie Hancock interview about music and technology at AppleMatters Herbie Hancock Outside The Comfort Zone interview at Hancock Article by C.J Shearn on the New York Jazz Workshop blog, November 2014 Herbie Hancock NAMM Oral History Program Interview (2006) Herbie Hancock on YouTube 1940 births Living people 20th-century American composers 20th-century American keyboardists 20th-century American male musicians 20th-century American singers 20th-century jazz composers 21st-century American composers 21st-century American keyboardists 21st-century American male musicians 21st-century American singers 21st-century jazz composers African-American jazz composers African-American jazz