Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz

The world’s preeminent jazz education organization, the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz is a leader in global cultural diplomacy. Our mission 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 across the United States and 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.