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.

“Most of the songs that are written uptown in Tin Pan Alley, that’s where most of the folk songs come from nowadays” – Bob Dylan

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