BENNY GOLSON AWARD
The HUJE created the Benny Golson Jazz Master Award in 1996 to honor the legacy of Howard University Alumnus and 1995 NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson. Dr. Golson, a jazz composer and saxophonist is the composer of jazz standards: Killer Joe, Along Came Betty, Blues March, I Remember Clifford, Stablemates, and others.
The Benny Golson Jazz Master Award has been awarded to the following giants and supporters of this American Art Form, JAZZ
1996 Benny Golson
1997 Frank Wess
1998 Frank Foster
1999 Clark Terry
2000 Grady Tate
2000 Donald Byrd
2001 Larry Ridley
2001 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
2001 Yusef A. Lateef
2002 Frederick C. Tillis
2002 Jimmy Heath
2002 Doris Evans McGinty
2002 Marcus Belgrave
2003 Willie L. Hill, Jr.
2003 Roger “Buck” Hill
2003 Eddie Henderson
2004 Charles Tolliver
2004 Billy Harper
2005 Abraham S. Venable
2005 Joe Wilder
2005 Arthur C. Dawkins
2005 Geri Allen
2005 Wallace Roney
2006 A.B. Spellman
2006 Bill Pierce
2007 Fred Wesley, Jr.
2007 Andrew White
2008 Jimmy Owens
2008 Cecil Bridgewater
2009 McCoy Tyner
2009 Billy Taylor
2009 Jazz Mobile, Inc
2010 T. S. Monk
2010 The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Thomas R. Carter, President
2010 Greg Osby
2011 Pharoah Sanders
2011 Bennie Maupin
2012 Larry Willis
2012 Javon Jackson
2013 Reppard Stone
2013 Bobby Watson
2013 The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts
Donald Gardner, Executive Director
Lovett Hines, Artistic Director
2013 Sonny Fortune
2014 Hubert Laws
2014 Davey Yarborough
2014 Paul Carr
2014 Tom Williams
2015 Westminster Presbyterian Church
Richard and Ruth Hamilton, Pastors
Richard “Dick Smith”, Jazz Patron
2015 Andre Heyward
2015 DC Jazz Festival
Sunny Sumter, Executive Director
Willard Jenkins, Artistic Director
2016 Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives
Judith A. Korey, Curator
2016 Cyrus Chestnut
2016 Fred Irby, III
2016 Anacostia Community Museum
Tony Thomas, Education Program Coordinator
2017 Warren Wolf
2017 Donald Brown
2018 Charles Funn
2018 Gary Bartz
2018 Tia Fuller
2019 George E. Allen
2019 George L. Starks
2019 Derrick Gardner
2019 Jimmy Greene
2021 Suzan E. Jenkins
2021 William “Bill” Alston Brower, Jr.
2021 Allyn Johnson
2022 Orrin Evans
2022 Omrao Brown
2023 Calvin James Jones, Sr.
2023 The Excelsior Brass Brand (1883) of Mobile, Alabama
2023 Hugh Joseph “Rusty” Hassan
2023 Marc Cary