Blue Öyster Cult had to ban people from bringing cowbells to their concerts after the wildly famous “Needs More Cowbell” Saturday Night Live sketch that poked fun at the band’s song “Don’t Fear The Reaper”.

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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