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Jazz Hall of Fame may refer to: Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, an organization based in Birmingham, Alabama; Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, an organization based in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1978–2004), a defunct annual recognition in San Diego County, California; DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame, sponsored by DownBeat magazine ...
Each year the IAJE leadership selected recipients for the Jazz Education Hall of Fame from nominations received from the IAJE membership. The purpose of the Hall of Fame was to honor those individuals whose musical contributions and dedication to jazz education created new directions and curricular innovations for jazz education worldwide. [3] [4]
Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Birmingham, Alabama; American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; ... International Jazz Festivals Organization; J
The Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame is named for Nesuhi Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records. A 60-person international voting panel, which includes musicians, scholars and educators from 17 countries, is charged to nominate and select "the most definitive artists in the history of jazz for induction into the Hall of Fame". [13]
The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame (AJHF) is an organization and museum in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.It was founded in 1978, and opened as museum on September 18, 1993, with a mission "to foster, encourage, educate, and cultivate a general appreciation of the medium of jazz music as a legitimate, original and distinctive art form indigenous to America.
2001 – Harlem Jazz and Music Festival's Legend Award; 1996 – International Jazz Hall of Fame Induction and Award (performed "Flying Home" with Illinois Jacquet and the Count Basie Orchestra) 1996 – National Medal of Arts presented by President Bill Clinton; 1995 – Honorary Commissioner of Civil Rights by George Pataki
On April 7, Kaye, who joined the Austin music scene in 1975, will be inducted into the Austin Jazz Hall of Fame. During the 1970s, while in college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Mady Kaye ...
The Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame is part of a US-based non-profit organization (The Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame Foundation [1]) that began operations in 1978 and continues to the present (2022) in San Diego County, California. David Larkin is current president.