Grammy Award Album Of The Year River: The Joni Letters 2008
Grammy Award Best Contemporary Jazz Album River: The Joni Letters 2008
Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Solo "Speak Like a Child" 2004
Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group "Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall" 2002
Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Solo "My Ship" 2002
Grammy Award Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) "St. Louis Blues" 1998
Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group "Gershwin's World" 1998
Grammy Award Best Instrumental Composition "Manhattan (Isle of Lights and Love)" 1996
Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group "A Tribute to Miles" 1994
Grammy Award Best Instrumental Composition "Call Sheet Blues" 1987
Academy Award Best Original Music Score "Round Midnight" 1986
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Music Score "Round Midnight" 1986
Grammy Award Best R&B Instrumental Performance "Sound-System" 1984
MTV Video Music Award Best Concept Video "Rockit" 1984
Grammy Award Best R&B Instrumental Performance "Rockit" 1983
2007 Released the album, River: The Joni Letters, a tribute album in honor of Joni Mitchell, a longtime associate and friend of Hancock; earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year
2005 Released the duet album, Possibilities, which featured duets with Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Sting and others; the album earned two Grammy nominat
2001 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
1998 Achieved success with his album Gershwin's World, which featured Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Shorter
1998 Reunited with Headhunters for the album, Return of the Headhunters
1994 Released the album, Tribute to Miles to honor his mentor Miles Davis who had died in 1991
1990 Appeared as himself in the biographical feature, "Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones"
1989 Served as music director, also featured in the Cinemax special, "The Neville Brothers: Tell It Like It Is"
1986 Feature acting debut, also credited for music, music arrangement, and music direction, "'Round Midnight"; earned Best Original Music Score Oscar
1986 First TV-movie music credit, "The George McKenna Story" (CBS)
1979 Feature debut as song performer, "The Bitch"; also received song credit for, "I Thought It Was You"
1976 Returned to earlier jazz influences and formed the acoustic group, V.S.O.P.
1974 Made TV debut with the soundtrack, "Fat Albert Rotunda" a Bill Cosby animated special
1973 Formed band and released breakthrough album of the same title, Headhunters
1971 Ceased collaborating with Davis and branched out musically to pursue fusion with Mwandishi
1966 Feature debut, scored Michelangelo Antonioni's, "Blow-Up"
1963 Released first solo LP, Watermelon Man, after working with trumpeter Donald Byrd
1963 - 1968 Worked with Miles Davis, with whom he recorded often for Blue Note Records
1951 By age 11, was performing with the Chicago Symphony
1947 Began playing piano at age seven
Born and raised in Chicago, IL
Played jazz piano in a trio, while working towards an engineering degree at Grinnell College
Hosted the cable series "Showtime Coast to Coast"
