{"id":1739,"date":"2014-10-24T13:25:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2019-09-12T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:33:29","slug":"jazz-men-and-women-and-jazz-itself-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2014\/10\/jazz-men-and-women-and-jazz-itself-honored.html","title":{"rendered":"Jazz men and women — and jazz itself — honored"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celebrity non-squares: Herbie Hancock (top left) with (counterclockwise) JFA Great Night guests Quincy Jones, Questlove, Clark Terry, Susan Tedeschi and Bruce Willis – Jazz Foundation of America<\/p><\/div>\n

Tonight (Oct. 24) will be a Great Night in Harlem<\/a>, as pianist Herbie Hancock, <\/strong>winner of the Jazz Journalists Association’s 2014 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz,\u00c2\u00a0receives likewise\u00c2\u00a0recognition at\u00c2\u00a0the Jazz Foundation of America’s gala fundraising
\nshow (goal: $1.7 million to help health-, housing- and employment-challenged jazz and blues musicians), genuinely studded with stars and heartfelt tributes.<\/p>\n

The concert at the Apollo Theater, being\u00c2\u00a0broadcast live by New Orleans radio station WWOZ<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0starting at 8:30 pm Eastern time, includes the first ever\u00c2\u00a0reconvening of Hancock’s music-stretching\u00c2\u00a0early ’70s Mwandishi band; Chaka Khan, guitarist Ray Parker, drummer Questlove and bassist Verdeen White of Earth, Wind and Fire hailing\u00c2\u00a0Verdeen’s brother and EWF founder Maurice White, who copes with Parkinson’s disease ,and a segment devoted to trumpeter Clark Terry, 93 and ailing yet right now\u00c2\u00a0on movie screens in the documentary Keep On Keepin’ On<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quincy Jones will present Hancock’s award and a dozen sterling\u00c2\u00a0musicians ranging from tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath, now 88, to 13-year-old piano prodigy Matthew Whitaker will be featured throughout the evening. For some reason, Bruce Willis will be there, too. If you can’t attend, you can still donate — the JFA does truly great\u00c2\u00a0work in support of creators of\u00c2\u00a0America’s cultural treasure which, as ArtsJournal<\/strong> today headlines, “don’t get no respect<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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JoAnne Brackeen, BNY Mellon Living Legacy Award winner, and an inquisitive jazz journalist. Photo by Valerie Russell for Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n

This Great Night caps a couple of weeks of similar\u00c2\u00a0ceremonies. In Washington D.C. the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation presented the BNY Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award<\/a> to pianist-educator\u00c2\u00a0JoAnne Brackeen <\/strong>at the Kennedy Center.\u00c2\u00a0I was there, along with a prestigious coterie of\u00c2\u00a0previous honorees including Kenny Barron, Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Larry Ridley, Roy Haynes, Rufus Reid and Muhal Richard Abrams, who performed with a superb quintet. Early in the day, prior to the Award reception, program and concert,\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>this troupe had been gotten a tour of precious jazz artifacts held at the National Museum of American History by Ken Kimery, director of the\u00c2\u00a0Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra<\/a>, and John Edward Hasse, NMAH curator of music. They were reportedly wowed by Ellington’s handwritten signature and scores, Coltrane’s chart for A Love Supreme\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>and\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Louis Armstrong’s horn.<\/p>\n

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Muhal Richard Abrams (l.) onstage at the Kennedy Center, introduced by Jason Moran. Photo by Kevin Struthers.<\/p><\/div>\n

In Chicago on Oct 15, the Jazz Institute <\/a>held a gala at the Drake Hotel, during which\u00c2\u00a0honors were conferred on\u00c2\u00a0Muhal<\/strong> (as co-founder of the AACM, mentor to generations of free-thinking musicians, NEA Jazz Master, and composer\/bandleader\/pianist extraordinaire — incidentally, he’s performing again with a quintet tonight in NYC<\/a>),\u00c2\u00a0Richard Wang<\/strong> (U of Illinois music prof\u00c2\u00a0emeritus), Dr. Carol Adams<\/strong> (exec\u00c2\u00a0director of the\u00c2\u00a0DuSable Museum of African American History<\/a>), \u00c2\u00a0James Fahey<\/strong> (director of programming<\/p>\n

for Symphony Center Presents<\/a>), and Marjorie Kiewit<\/strong> (Jazz Institute of Chicago supporter and philanthropist). The JIC gala brought something like $70k to the activist organization that programs the annual free summer jazz festival, but just as importantly runs year-round programs in parks and schools throughout the city, presentations in decentralized locales and has helped enormously to better\u00c2\u00a0a scene that now\u00c2\u00a0reaches\u00c2\u00a0across some longstanding social\/racial\/ethnic chasms towards more inclusiveness and outright neighborly relations.<\/p>\n

Awards events and galas like these are not empty or self-congratulatory, though they are sometimes criticized as such. They all serve as signal occasions meant to raising the profile of (besides $$ for) our\u00c2\u00a0American cultural treasure, a gift enjoyed and\u00c2\u00a0practiced\u00c2\u00a0world-wide, maybe taken for granted or deemed uncommercial but deep in the heart of the soundtrack here at home.<\/p>\n

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Tonight (Oct. 24) will be a Great Night in Harlem, as pianist Herbie Hancock, winner of the Jazz Journalists Association’s 2014 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz,\u00c2\u00a0receives likewise\u00c2\u00a0recognition at\u00c2\u00a0the Jazz Foundation of America’s gala fundraising show (goal: $1.7 million to help health-, housing- and employment-challenged jazz and blues musicians), genuinely studded with stars and heartfelt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BzDiIvCIgAM3eb5.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-s3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":819,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/03\/which-herbie-hancock-comes-to-jazz-at-lincoln-center.html","url_meta":{"origin":1739,"position":0},"title":"Which Herbie Hancock comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"March 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Pianist Herbie Hancock is a chameleon -- as I say in my newest column in\u00c2\u00a0CityArts-New York. 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