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.

Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his bassist Norman Owens in the chest while trying to hit a soda bottle. Owens survived — but was never paid for the hospital bill. “It was just one of them things,” Lewis later quipped.

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