Awards

Award Type

Award Category

Name
2014
- Jazz Foundation of America
  
  Lifetime Achievement Award
2014
- SF Jazz
  
  Lifetime Achievement Award
2014
- Harvard
  
  Norton Professor of Poetry
2013
- Kennedy Center Honors
2012
- UNESCO
  
  Ambassador of Goodwill
2011
- Grammy®
  
  Best Pop Collaboration w/ Vocals
  
  The Imagine Project
- Grammy®
  
  Best Improvised Jazz Solo
  
  The Imagine Project
2007
- Grammy®
  
  Album Of The Year
  
  River: The Joni Letters
- Grammy®
  
  Best Contemporary Jazz Album
  
  River: The Joni Letters
2004
- Grammy®
  NEA Jazz Masters Award
  
  Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
  
  Speak Like A Child
- NEA
  
  Jazz Masters Award
2002
- Grammy®
  
  Best Jazz Instrumental Album
  
  Directions In Music
- Grammy®
  
  Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
  
  My Ship
2001
- VH1's 100 Greatest Videos
  
  10th Greatest Video
  
  Rockit
1998
- Grammy®
  
  Best Jazz Instrumental Performance
  
  Gershwin's World
- Grammy®
  
  Best Instrumental Arrangement
  Accompanying Vocals
  
  St. Louis Blues
1997
- Soul Train Music Award
  
  Best Jazz Album
  
  The New Standard
- Festival International Jazz de Montreal Prix
  
  Best Jazz Album
  
  Miles Davis
1996
- Grammy®
  
  Best Instrumental Composition
  
  Manhattan (Island of Lights and Love)
1994
- Grammy®
  
  Best Jazz Instrumental Album
  By A Group
  
  A Tribute to Miles
1989
- BMI
  
  Film Music Award
  
  Colors
1988
- Playboy
  
  Music Poll
  
  Best Jazz Instrumentalist
- Keyboard Magazine
  
  Best Jazz Pianist
- BMI
  
  TV/Film Award
  
  25yrs Affiliation
1987
- Keyboard Magazine
  Readers' Poll
  
  Best Jazz Keyboardist
- Keyboard Magazine
  Readers' Poll
  
  Best Jazz Keyboardist
- Grammy®
  
  Best Instrumental Composition
  
  Call Sheet Blues
- Playboy Music Poll
  
  Best R&B Instrumentalist
1986
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association
  
  Best Score
  
  Round Midnight
- Oscar®
  
  Best Original Score
  
  Round Midnight
- BMI
  
  Film Music Award
  
  Round Midnight
- Playboy Music Poll
  
  Best Jazz Keyboardist
- Clio Award
- U.S. Radio Award
  
  Best Original Music Scoring
  
  Thom McAnn Shoes
1985
- Playboy Music Poll
  
  Best Jazz Group
- Playboy Music Poll
  
  Best Jazz Album
  
  Future Shock
- Gold Note Jazz Awards
  
  Best R&B Instrumental Performance
  
  Rockit
- National Black MBA Association
  
  Member, NY Chapter
- France
  
  Officer of The Order of Arts & Letters
1984
- MTV Video Awards
  
  Most Experimental Video
  
  Rockit
- MTV Video Awards
  
  Best Art Direction in a Video
  
  Rockit
- MTV Video Awards
  
  Best Concept Video
  
  Rockit
- MTV Video Awards
  
  Best Video Editing
  
  Rockit
- MTV Video Awards
  
  Best Special Effects in a Video
  
  Rockit
- Grammy®
  
  Best R&B Instrumental Performance
  
  Sound-System
1983
- Keyboard Magazine Readers Poll
  
  Best Jazz & Pop Keyboardist
- Grammy®
  
  Best R&B Instrumental Performance
  
  Rockit

Herbie has received six honorary doctorates

2013

Columbia College
2011

Julliard
2009

Bentley University
1997

CSU Fresno
1986

Berklee College of Music
1972

Grinnell College