Jazz Photo Archive
Pictured enjoying the recent BMI-sponsored Grammy nominees reception at Gracie Mansion are BMI’s Charlie Feldman, BMI songwriter/artist Cyndi Lauper, and BMI’s Samantha Cox. View Photo
BMI’s Robbin Ahrold (center) congratulates Grammy nominee Darcy James Argue (right) and his guest (left). Argue’s “Infernal Machines” garnered a 2011 Grammy nod for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. View Photo
BMI President & CEO Del Bryant; Rocco Landesman, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman; and Joan Shigekawa, National Endowment for the Arts Senior Deputy Chairman pause for a photo during the luncheon saluting the 2011 Class of NEA Jazz Masters at Jazz at Lincoln Center. View Photo
BMI President & CEO Del Bryant (far left) and National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman (far right) pause for a photo with 2011 NEA Jazz Masters Jason Marsalis, Hubert Laws, Orrin Keepnews, Ellis Marsalis, Jr., David Liebman, Johnny Mandel, Branford Marsalis, and Wynton Marsalis at the Jazz Masters Reunion Luncheon on January 11, 2011. View Photo
BMI President & CEO Del Bryant welcomes guests to the luncheon saluting the 2011 Class of NEA Jazz Masters at Jazz at Lincoln Center. View Photo
BMI President & CEO Del Bryant (left) presents an engraved silver plate to 2011 Jazz Master and BMI composer Hubert Laws, with NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman. View Photo
BMI composer and 2011 Jazz Master David Liebman celebrates with NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman and BMI President & CEO Del Bryant. View Photo
Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition Grand Prize winner Tarek Yamani recently visited BMI’s New York office to play some of his new compositions. Pictured are (seated) Tarek Yamani; (back row) with BMI’s Robbin Ahrold, Ron Solleveld and Charlie Feldman. View Photo
Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) isn’t until April, but leaders are already coming together to plan next year’s full slate of events. Pictured at a recent JAM Task Force meeting are (standing) Marty Ashby, Executive Producer, MCG Jazz; John Hasse, Curator of American Music, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; Joann Stevens, Program Manager, Jazz Appreciation Month Initiatives, National Museum… View Photo
The $3,000 BMI Foundation annual Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize was awarded to talented composer Nathan Smith for his composition “Now What?,” on July 1 at the BMI Jazz Composer Workshop Showcase Concert. Pictured at the concert are trombonist John Fedchock; jazz authority Dan Morgenstern; BMI VP, Corporate Communications Robbin Ahrold; showcase winner Nathan Smith; saxophonist Steve Wilson; Workshop Associate… View Photo