In an uplifting ‘passing of the baton’, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz was in 2019 renamed to the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, after the longtime chairman, himself an innovator in the genre. Among other duties, the Institute provides college-level mentorship to new generations of Jazz students.

In 1929, W.C. Handy & Bessie Smith made a glamorous premier of their movie “St. Louis Blues” with red carpet & limousines in Memphis, Tennessee, on Beale Street at The Daisy Theater — an establishment which stands to this day.

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