Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz

Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz

Founded	1986
Headquarters	Los Angeles
Key people	Herbie Hancock, Thomas R. Carter
Website	hancockinstitute.org
Formerly called	Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz

The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz is a non-profit music education organization founded in 1986. Before 2019, it was known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, but was then renamed after its longtime board chairman, Herbie Hancock.^[1]

The institute has held its International Jazz Competition annually since 1987 and offered a full scholarship graduate-level college program since 1995. It organizes free jazz education programs in public schools throughout the United States and the world “to encourage imaginative thinking, creativity, a positive self-image and respect for one’s own and others’ cultural heritage.”^[2] It is also the lead non-profit responsible for coordinating the annual celebration of International Jazz Day, a United Nations initiative.^[3]