Tuesday, September 13, 2005
New NEA Jazz Master
Many enthusiastic and warm congratulations to John Levy, named today as a National Endowment for the Arts Chairman "living legend of American music". Born in 1912 in New Orleans, a place we are all a bit more familiar with than we were two weeks ago, the great-grandson of Louisiana slaves and George Shearing's former bassist, Levy will officially join the ranks of the NEA Arts Jazz Masters in January at a ceremony in NYC. Already a member of the International Jazz Hall of Fame, he will receive the Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy for his career as a manager for more than 85 artists, eight of whom are previous NEA Jazz Masters. Details about the award, jazz, and Levy, etc. are available in the press release, Levy's website at lushlife.com and the award's site at neajazzmasters.org.
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