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Awards

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