Results for "Award / Grant"

Puerto Rican Senate Honors Carlos "Patato" Vald

May 28, 2002

New England Conservatory Awards Honorary Degree to Saxophone Legend Sonny Rollins

May 22, 2002

BOSTON--The attached photograph was taken of jazz saxophone legend Sonny Rollins at New England Conservatory's 131st Commencement Exercises before he received his honorary Doctor of Music degree on Sunday. In the photo, he is talking with New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies and Improvisation Department Chair Ken Schaphorst and New England Conservatory President Daniel Steiner (L to ...

Jazz Legend Percy Heath Receives Honors from Hometown Wilmington, NC

May 14, 2002

Jazz At Lincoln Center Announces Winners Of Its Seventh Annual Essentially

May 13, 2002

The Best High School Jazz Bands In The Country! 1st Place - ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL, Seattle, Washington 2nd Place - GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL, Seattle, Washington 3rd Place - NEW WORLD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, Miami, Florida New York, NY, May 13, 2002: Tonight, three ...

Woodside California School Student Wins Downbeat Jazz Student Competition

May 10, 2002

Down Beat's Student Music Awards are 25 years old. That's more than one-fourth the time that jazz has been tickling eardrums. For 25 years the awards have honored and acknowledged the students and teachers that have cultivated and nurtured the growth of jazz education. For the first time, a student at Woodside School has been honored ...

Fourth Annual Marian Mcpartland/Eastman Jazz Series Spotlights Rising Star Of Jazz, Jason Moran

McPartland honored through new exhibit in Sibley Music Library ROCHESTER, NY ‹ For the fourth time in as many years, legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland and the Eastman School of Music have teamed up to shine the spotlight on an exceptional jazz pianist who deserves wider recognition. Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Moran whose CD Black Stars was named ...

Jazz legend Vernon Alley to receive SFSU Presidential Medal

SAN FRANCISCO, May 7, 2002 -- Vernon Alley, the legendary jazz bassist who has played a major role in San Francisco's jazz scene since the 1940s, will receive the San Francisco State University Presidential Medal this year. Alley, an undergraduate music studies student in 1940, will accept the medal at a special ceremony for SFSU alumni ...

Queen Elizabeth II recognizes a jazz guitarist

Alyn Shipton Wins 'Jazz Writer of the Year' Award

Alyn Shipton has won the award for 'Jazz Writer of the Year' for his New History of Jazz in the British Hamlet Jazz Awards. The prize was presented at the Pizza on the Park ceremony by Humphrey Lyttelton, who described the book as 'the definitive history of jazz'. Alyn's book has also been nominated the in ...

Kahil El'zabar Receives "Percussionist Of The Year" Award From Jazz Journalist Association

At a benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America on Wednesday June 19, 2002, Kahil El'Zabar was presented with the “Percussionist of the Year" award by the Jazz Journalist Association. The results were based on votes cast by the 400 member J.J.A. international membership. For more information on the JJA Awards, please go to the websites: ...