Herbie Hancock award received Kennedy Center Honors
2010 to present
In June 2010, Hancock released The Imagine Project.
On June 5, 2010, he received an Alumni Award from his alma mater Grinnell College. On July 22, 2011, at a ceremony in Paris, he was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Intercultural Dialogue. In 2013, Hancock joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty as a professor in the UCLA music department teaching jazz music.In a June 2010 interview with Michael Gallant of Keyboard magazine, Hancock talks about his Fazioli giving him inspiration to do things.On December 8, 2013, he was given the Kennedy Center Honors Award for achievement in the performing arts with artists like Snoop Dogg and Mixmaster Mike from the Beastie Boys performing his music.
He appeared on the album You're Dead! by Flying Lotus, released in October 2014.
Hancock was the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. Holders of the chair deliver a series of six lectures on poetry, "The Norton Lectures", poetry being "interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts". Previous Norton lecturers include musicians Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky and John Cage. Hancock's theme is "The Ethics of Jazz".Hancock's next album is being produced by Terrace Martin, and will feature a broad variety of jazz and hip-hop artists including Wayne Shorter, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Lionel Loueke, Zakir Hussein and Snoop Dogg.On May 15, 2015, Hancock received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Washington University in St. Louis.On May 19, 2018, Hancock received an honorary degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.On June 26, 2022, Hancock performed at the Glastonbury Festival.Hancock was featured on the track "MOON" by the jazz duo Domi and JD Beck on their debut album NOT TiGHT, released July 29, 2022.
On Feb 4, 2023, Hancock performed at the Arise Fashion Week & Jazz Festival at Eko Hotel, Lagos, NigeriaOther 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
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