Maceo Parker, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, also played with Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s & Prince in the 2000s.

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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