Down Beat Awards for Jazz

DownBeat Magazine, the most prestigious Jazz publication, has been giving awards for Jazz performance since its inception.

Contents 1 Awards 1.1 Lifetime Achievement Award 1.2 Hall of Fame 1.3 Veterans Committee Hall of Fame 1.4 Album of the Year 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award

Hall of Fame

The DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame is maintained at Universal Studios' City Jazz club in Orlando, Florida. Current membership, by year, is listed in the following table. The critics' poll was not initiated until 1961, so winners before then were all chosen by readers' polls. In 2010, the Veterans Committee Hall of Fame began electing deserving, deceased musicians of bygone eras.

Year	Readers Poll	Critics Poll
1952	Louis Armstrong[1]
1953	Glenn Miller[2]
1954	Stan Kenton[3]
1955	Charlie Parker[4]
1956	Duke Ellington[5]
1957	Benny Goodman[6]
1958	Count Basie[7]
1959	Lester Young[8]
1960	Dizzy Gillespie[9]
1961	Billie Holiday[10]	Coleman Hawkins[11]
1962	Miles Davis[12]	Bix Beiderbecke[13]
1963	Thelonious Monk[14]	Jelly Roll Morton[15]
1964	Eric Dolphy[16]	Art Tatum[17]
1965	John Coltrane[18]	Earl Hines[19]
1966	Bud Powell[20]	Charlie Christian[21]
1967	Billy Strayhorn[22]	Bessie Smith[23]
1968	Wes Montgomery[24]	Sidney Bechet & Fats Waller[25]
1969	Ornette Coleman[26]	Pee Wee Russell & Jack Teagarden[27]
1970	Jimi Hendrix[28]	Johnny Hodges[29]
1971	Charles Mingus[30]	Roy Eldridge & Django Reinhardt[31]
1972	Gene Krupa[32]	Clifford Brown[33]
1973	Sonny Rollins[34]	Fletcher Henderson[35]
1974	Buddy Rich[36]	Ben Webster[37]
1975	Cannonball Adderley[38]	Cecil Taylor[39]
1976	Woody Herman	King Oliver[40]
1977	Paul Desmond	Benny Carter[41]
1978	Joe Venuti	Rahsaan Roland Kirk[42]
1979	Ella Fitzgerald	Lennie Tristano[43]
1980	Dexter Gordon	Max Roach[44]
1981	Art Blakey	Bill Evans[45]
1982	Art Pepper	Fats Navarro[46]
1983	Stéphane Grappelli	Albert Ayler[47]
1984	Oscar Peterson[48]	Sun Ra[49]
1985	Sarah Vaughan	Zoot Sims[50]
1986	Stan Getz	Gil Evans[51]
1987	Lionel Hampton	Johnny Dodds, Thad Jones, Teddy Wilson[52]
1988	Jaco Pastorius	Kenny Clarke[53]
1989	Woody Shaw	Chet Baker[54]
1990	Red Rodney	Mary Lou Williams[55]
1991	Lee Morgan	John Carter[56]
1992	Maynard Ferguson	James P. Johnson[57]
1993	Gerry Mulligan	Edward Blackwell[58]
1994	Dave Brubeck	Frank Zappa[59]
1995	J. J. Johnson	Julius Hemphill[60]
1996	Horace Silver	Artie Shaw[61]
1997	Nat King Cole	Tony Williams[62]
1998	Frank Sinatra	Elvin Jones[63]
1999	Milt Jackson[64]	Betty Carter[65]
2000	Clark Terry	Lester Bowie[66]
2001	Joe Henderson	Milt Hinton[67]
2002	Antonio Carlos Jobim	John Lewis[68]
2003	Ray Brown	Wayne Shorter[69]
2004	McCoy Tyner	Roy Haynes
2005	Herbie Hancock	Steve Lacy
2006	Jimmy Smith	Jackie McLean[70]
2007	Michael Brecker	Andrew Hill[71]
2008	Keith Jarrett[72]	Joe Zawinul
2009	Freddie Hubbard	Hank Jones
2010	Muhal Richard Abrams	Chick Corea

Veterans Committee Hall of Fame

• 2008: Jo Jones, Jimmie Lunceford, Erroll Garner, Harry Carney, Jimmy Blanton
• 2009: Oscar Pettiford, Tadd Dameron
• 2010: Baby Dodds, Chick Webb, Philly Joe Jones, Billy Eckstine

Album of the Year

An essential contribution of the critics' and readers' polls published in the August resp. December issues are the selections for "Jazz Album of the Year", listing the dozen or so most popular albums. Listed here are the top 3 albums of the selections:

2006 critics' poll:
(1) Andrew Hill: Time Lines (Blue Note)
(2) Wayne Shorter Quartet: Beyond the Sound Barrier (Verve)
(3) Sonny Rollins: Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert (Milestone)

2007 critics' poll:
(1) Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
(2) Trio Beyond: Saudades (ECM)
(3) Sonny Rollins: Sonny, Please (Doxy)

2008 critics' poll:
(1) Maria Schneider: Sky Blue (ArtistShare)
(2) Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage (Heads Up)
(3) Joe Lovano and Hank Jones: Kids: Duets Live At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Blue Note)

2010 critics' poll:
(1) Vijay Iyer Trio: Historicity (ACT)
(2) Joe Lovano Us Five: Folk Art (Blue Note)
(3) Miguel Zenón: Esta Plena (Marsalis)

See also

• The Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Award
• International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (not jazz, exclusively, but many recipients are jazz musicians)
• BBC Jazz Awards
• NEA Jazz Masters

References

External links

• The Jazz Journalists Association Lifetime Achievement Award
• Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame
• Down Beat website
• "About Down Beat: A History As Rich As Jazz"
• Arts For Art Lifetime Achievement Award