Herbie Hancock Biography
- Born: 12-04-1940
- Birth Place: Chicago, USA
Music

Takin' Off (1962) – Blue Note
My Point of View (1963) – Blue Note
Inventions and Dimensions (1963) – Blue Note
Empyrean Isles (1964) – Blue Note
Maiden Voyage (1965) – Blue Note
Blow-Up (Soundtrack) (1966) – MGM
Speak Like a Child (1968) – Blue Note
The Prisoner (1969) – Blue Note
Fat Albert Rotunda (1969) – Warner Bros.
Mwandishi (1970) – Warner Bros.
Crossings (1972) – Warner Bros.
Sextant (1973) – Columbia
Head Hunters (1973) – Columbia
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Soundtrack) (1973)
Thrust (1974) – Columbia
Death Wish (Soundtrack) (1974) – Columbia
Dedication (1974) – Columbia
Man-Child (1975) – Columbia
Flood (1975) – Columbia – live album only released in Japan
Secrets (1976) – Columbia
VSOP (1976) – Columbia
VSOP: The Quintet (1977) – Columbia
VSOP: Tempest at the Colosseum (1977) – Columbia
Sunlight (1978) – Columbia
Direct Step (1978) – Columbia
An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978) –
Columbia
The Piano (1979) – Columbia
Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979) – Columbia
VSOP: Live Under the Sky (1979) – Columbia
Monster (1980) – Columbia
Mr. Hands (1980) – Columbia
Herbie Hancock Trio (1981) – Columbia
Magic Windows (1981) – Columbia
Lite Me Up (1982) – Columbia
Quartet (1982) – Columbia
Future Shock (1983) – Columbia
Sound-System (1984) – Columbia
Village Life (1985) - Columbia (with Foday Musa Suso)
Round Midnight (Soundtrack) (1986) – Columbia
Perfect Machine (1988) – Columbia
A Tribute to Miles (1994) – Qwest/Warner Bros. (with Wallace
Roney, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams)
Dis Is Da Drum (1994) – Verve/Mercury
The New Standard (1995) – Verve
1 + 1 (1997) – Verve (with Wayne Shorter)
Gershwin's World (1998) – Verve
Mr. Funk (2001) - Columbia
Future2Future (2001) – Transparent
Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall (2002) – Verve
Possibilities (2005) – Concord/Hear Music
The Essential Herbie Hancock (2006) – Columbia/Sony BMG
River: The Joni Letters (2007) – Verve
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