NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Herbie Hancock on 3 November 2023. Herbie Hancock has been played over 500 times on NTS, first on 21 February 2013. Herbie Hancock's music has been featured on 422 episodes.

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, United States. Hancock is one of jazz music's most important and influential pianists and composers. He embraced elements of rock, funk, and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz.

As part of Miles Davis' "second great quintet" Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was…