The Police’s Sting got his nickname in his twenties from his affinity for wearing a black and yellow striped rugby sweater, making him look like a wasp. His real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner.

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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