Award / Grant News

Bobby Sanabria is 2006 Bronx Walk of Fame Inductee

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2006

Bronx born and bred Grammy nominated drummer, percussionist, bandleader, arranger, composer, educator, Bobby Sanabria will be inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame during this year's Bronx Week. The Walk of Fame Induction Ceremony will be part of the Bronx Week Grand Finale and take place at the Grand Concourse and E. 161st St. at 11:00 am on Saturday, June 24th.

The NY Daily News Bronx Week supplement (in last Thursday's paper) list this year's other inductees as actor CHAZZ ...

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JazzWeek Awards Recognize Best Jazz Radio Stations, Programmers, Labels, Musicians Of 2006

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2006

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (June 20, 2006) -- The fourth annual JazzWeek Awards were presented at the JazzWeek Awards brunch during the fifth annual JazzWeek Summit on June 17, 2006, in Rochester, N.Y.

Award winners in 13 categories were chosen by readers of JazzWeek in balloting during May, while the Duke Dubois Award winner was chosen by a selection committee. JazzWeek readers submitted nominations for each category and the top five nominees in each comprised the ballot.

WEMU, Ypsilanti, Mich., music director ...

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JJA Announces 2006 Jazz Award Winners

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2006

Sonny Rollins Named “Musician of the Year" & “Tenor Saxophonist of the Year"; Roy Haynes Honored with the “Lifetime Achievement" Award

June 20, 2006: New York, NY--The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) recently held its tenth annual Jazz Awards, honoring jazz musicians and their supporters, on Monday, June 19, at B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill in New York City. In attendance at the sold-out event were over 500 musicians, journalists, photographers, and industry executives. There were musical performances by the ...

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ASCAP To Add Six Music Greats To Jazz Wall Of Fame on June 21st

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2006

ASCAP TO ADD SIX MUSIC GREATS TO JAZZ WALL OF FAME AT SOCIETY'S NEW YORK OFFICES

NEW GROUP OF INDUCTEES INCLUDES THREE JAZZ GIANTS OF THE PAST AND LIVING LEGENDS FRANK FOSTER, HORACE SILVER AND CLARK TERRY

KEN HATFIELD TO BE RECOGNIZED WITH THE ASCAP FOUNDATION VANGUARD AWARD

Event Will Also Celebrate Recipients Of The Fourth Annual ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards, Sponsored by The Gibson Foundation

New York, NY, June 12, 2006. ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman ...

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Jazz Vocalist Hale Baskin of Menlo-Atherton High School wins her second DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award

Source: All About Jazz
June 11, 2006

Elmhurst, Illinois

Menlo-Atherton High School student Hale Baskin is awarded an “outstanding performance" for her submission to the 29th DOWNBEAT Student music awards.

DOWNBEAT Magazine was first impressed with Hale's vocal talents when they awarded her first place in the Junior High School division of their 2002 Student Music Awards. Her prize: a scholarship to Berklee College of Music's summer program, which she completed in 2003.

This years winning offering to DOWNBEAT consisted of three songs. First was a powerful ...

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Jazz Journalists Association's 10th Annual Jazz Awards At B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill - June 19

Source: All About Jazz
June 7, 2006

Roy Haynes, Andrew Hill, Lee Konitz, Marian McPartland and Paul Motian--"Lifetime Achievement" Nominees; Dave Douglas, Hill, Joe Lovano, Motian, Sonny Rollins and Ken Vandermark--Nominees for “Musician of the Year"

New York, NY--The Jazz Journalists Association is gearing up for its 10th annual Jazz Awards, which will take place on Monday, June 19, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at B. B. King's Blues Club and Grill, 237 W. 42nd St., in New York City. With votes culled from the international ...

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Theodore Croker lands jazz-mentor spot

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

Theodore L. Croker, a junior at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Cleveland, has been selected for an internship this summer with the jazz-mentor program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. The 20-year-old is the grandson of the late jazz great Adolphus “Doc" Cheatham. He is the son of Alicia Croker of Leesburg and the late William H. Croker. Croker, who plays the trumpet, also was the recipient this year of the Theodore Presser Music Award, a $7,000 grant ...

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Washington jazz bands score Ellington awards

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

High-school bands from Western Washington state claimed two of the top four honors at Lincoln Center's elite Essentially Ellington jazz competition Saturday while one local high school senior garnered an Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Vocalist Award. This is the fourth year four bands from Washington made the finals. But it was Roosevelt senior Isabella Du Graf's first trip to the competition in New York. She received the outstanding vocalist award after singing Duke Ellington's “Rocks in My Bed." “It was the ...

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