At the end of “One For Daddy-O” on Cannonball Adderley’s landmark Jazz release Somethin’ Else, Miles Davis (in one of his last sessions as a sideman) can clearly be heard asking the producer, “is that what you wanted, Alfred?”

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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