According to blues legend Bessie Smith’s son, when a car dealer snidely told her there was ‘no way a negro woman could afford a Cadillac’, she went to her bank, withdrew enough money to buy a house, threw it in the salesman’s face, told him to ‘f___ himself’ and drove away in the car.

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.

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