Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards

Ornette Coleman

Avant-garde jazz icon saxophonist-composer Ornette Coleman was celebrated with highest honors at the 2007 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards on June 28, 2007 at the Jazz Standard in New York City. Coleman, who received a Pulitzer Prize earlier in 2007, received four awards: Musician of the Year, Alto Saxophonist of the Year, Record of the Year, and Small Group of the Year. Other ASCAP top honorees were Anat Cohen, Up and Coming Artist and Clarinetist of the Year; Maria Schneider, Jazz Arranger of the Year; Wycliffe Gordon, Trombonist of the Year; Regina Carter, String Player of the Year; and Donald Harrison, artistic director of the New Orleans-based Tipitina's Foundation, with an A Team Award for activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz.