Daniel Seeff is the West Coast director of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. In this role, he is program director of the institute and also directs the institute’s Los Angeles public school outreach programming, including Jazz in the Classroom and BeBop to Hip-Hop, and serves as an associate producer of the institute’s annual international jazz competition.

Seeff coordinated the Institute’s summer jazz colony for six years and has produced dozens of Institute educational presentations in Los Angeles, around the country and throughout the world. He is the host and producer of the hip-hop and jazz radio show ExcursionsRadio on KJazz in Los Angeles.

Seeff is also a bassist and guitarist who has toured internationally and performed on many major label albums with artists such as Eminem, Jay-Z, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Cypress Hill. He co-wrote and played bass on the number 6 Billboard hit song “The Man” by Aloe Blacc and wrote music for and played on Grammy-nominated albums by Anderson .Paak, Ledisi, and the soundtrack to the Oscar-winning animated feature film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. He has received a Soul Train Award and ASCAP Songwriters Award for his compositions.