The Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship. Providing support and recognition to outstanding high school students, this program is presented in partnership with the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and is supported in part by the Herb Alpert Jazz Endowment Fund.
The Gil Evans Commission, ASCAP Commission, and SOCAN/Phil Nimmons Established Composer Award, providing support to emerging and established composers.
The Sisters in Jazz program, promoting participation of young women in jazz education and performance.
The Historically Black Colleges and Universities All-Star Big Band, which performs each year at the IAJE Annual Conference and provides opportunities for outstanding students attending HBCUs. This program is administrated in partnership with IAJE’s African-American Jazz Caucus.
The Community College All-Star Big Band, providing opportunities for outstanding students attending Community College programs. This program is administered in partnership with IAJE’s Community College Committee.Committee.
IAJE places a high value on recognizing those whose efforts have contributed to advancing jazz and jazz education through it’s annual Hall of Fame, Humanitarian, and Lawrence Berk Leadership Awards among others. In that spirit, we are honored to host the annual National Endowment for Arts Jazz Masters Awards, the highest award presented to master jazz artists by the United States.
With support from Berklee College of Music and the Campaign for Jazz, IAJE will establish a Jazz Educator of the Year Award beginning in 2007. The award will be named after legendary jazz educator John LaPorta, who played a pivotal role in the earliest stages of formalized jazz education and served as a distinguished professor at Berklee College of Music for more than three decades prior to his death in 2004. The award will recognize an outstanding high school educator who represents the highest standards of teaching and whose results in the classroom have brought distinction to their institution and their students. The award will include benefits in excess of $30,000 and will be presented annually at the IAJE International Conference.
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