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.

The Band’s Robbie Robertson said “I was noodling on a Martin guitar, and I looked inside,” the guitar was manufactured in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, which sparked the idea for “The Weight”, with the opening line “I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ ‘bout half-past dead.”

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