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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.
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 ...
WAJH (91.1 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, and owned and operated by the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Inc. The station broadcasts smooth jazz and other music programs. The station's antenna is located on Shades Mountain in Homewood, Alabama.
The City of Birmingham, seeking to improve the area where many events of the Civil Rights Movement took place, purchased the Carver in 1990 and remodeled it for live performance use, with an eye toward remembering the Carver's place in the African-American Community. One of the planned uses was a home for the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Birmingham, Alabama American Jazz Museum , Kansas City , Missouri Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians , Chicago , Illinois
Is it time for "Weird Al" Yankovic to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Since the 65-year-old parody musician's career began in the 1970s, he's earned legitimate hits, won five Grammy ...
Erskine Ramsay Hawkins (July 26, 1914 – November 11, 1993) [1] was an American trumpeter and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed "The 20th Century Gabriel". [2] He is best remembered for composing the jazz standard " Tuxedo Junction " (1939) with saxophonist and arranger Bill Johnson .
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 ...