Berklee College of Music no relation NEA Jazz Masters
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
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