Herbie Hancock Institute Monthly Residency

These musicians are students at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This intensive, graduate-level college program enables a select group of the world’s most gifted young jazz musicians to study tuition-free with legendary jazz musicians and educators including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, Jimmy Heath, John Scofield, Lewis Nash and Danilo Pérez, among others. The mission of the nonprofit Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz is to offer the world’s most promising young musicians college level training by internationally acclaimed jazz masters and to present public school-based music education programs for young people around the world. The Institute preserves, perpetuates and expands jazz as a global art form, and utilizes jazz as a means to unite people of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities. All of the Institute’s programs are provided free of charge to students, schools and communities worldwide.