TOOTS THIELEMANS BECOMES 2009 NEA JAZZ MASTER
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2009 NEA JAZZ MASTER
The highest American distinction
National Endowment for the Arts announces
the
2009 NEA Jazz Masters.
Washington,
DC –
The National Endowment for the Arts announced the recipients of the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Award—the nation’s
highest honor in this distinctly American music. The six recipients will each
receive a $25,000 grant award, and will be publicly honored in an awards
ceremony and concert at the Lincoln Center NY on Friday, October 17, 2008, where
the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis dedicates the program to the
honorees’ works .
The
six 2009 NEA Jazz Masters are: George Benson //
(vocalist and solo instrumentalist,
guitar), Jimmy Cobb (rhythm instrumentalist, drums), Lee Konitz//
(solo
instrumentalist, saxophone), Toots Thielemans (solo instrumentalist, harmonica
and guitar), and Snooky Young (solo instrumentalist, trumpet). Recording
engineer Rudy Van Gelder will receive the 2009 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters
Award for Jazz Advocacy.
More
information is available at :
http://www.nea.gov/national/jazz/press/JazzMasters2009.html