[Dixielandjazz] [Tradjazz] Jazz Hall of Fame

[Rick Knittel]

This passed on from Trad Jazz Mailing List written by Don Robertson

Rick Knittel
 
Here is a write up I did for Jersey Jazz last year  about the AJHoF and
how 
the AJHoF works.

"The idea for a Jazz Hall of Fame was the brainchild of the late  
bassist/author Warren Vaché, Sr., one of the founders of the New Jersey
Jazz  Society. He 
proposed it to the Society’s Directors in 1980 and the idea was  quickly 
accepted. We have always had close ties with the Rutgers Institute for 
Jazz 
Studies and its Director, Dan Morgenstern, who added their support to the
 effort.  
After some initial organizational and procedural matters were  attended
to, 
the first election was held in 1983 and has been an annual event  ever
since. I 
have served as the Secretary of the group for most of the AJHoF’s 
existence 
and preside over the balloting

How Artists Are Selected.

An eleven-member panel of Electors makes the selection of honorees. The  
panel consists of three representatives from Rutgers (the Director and
Assistant  
Director of the IJS and the Director of the Jazz Music program;
respectively,  
Dan Morgenstern, Ed Berger and Ralph Bowen) three from the Jazz Society
(the  
President, Vice-President and one other person; respectively, Andrea
Tyson, 
Lou  Iozzi and Stan Myers) and five distinguished “jazz world” figures, 
currently:  bassist/author Bill Crow, jazz critic/writer George Kanzler,
bassist 
John Lee,  producer/broadcaster Bob Porter and Star-Ledger jazz columnist
Zan 
Stewart. Each  serves a staggered term. Others from the jazz world who
have 
served include  multi-instrumentalist Benny Carter, record producer Milt
Gabler, 
jazz  photographer Bill Gottlieb, bassist Milt Hinton, pianist Marian 
McPartland,  record producer Helen Oakley-Dance, and singer Maxine
Sullivan.

The election process has evolved over time, and might now be called a  “
self-generating” ballot. The Electors are first polled, by mail, to name
a  number 
of deserving artists. Most recently, they were asked to name eight living
 and 
eight deceased, with no other qualification other than they aren’t
already  
in the Hall of Fame. Given the turnover in Electors and to provide a
sense of  
continuity, each Elector is given a “reminder” list of artists who came
close 
to  election in prior years. This is just to assure that deserving
artists 
aren’t  “lost in the shuffle.” The most frequently named artists from the
first 
round  are then listed on a second ballot and the Electors are instructed
to 
choose a  number of those artists to be honored. The criterion for
election is 
to receive  six or more votes from the eleven Electors. Those receiving
less 
than six, but  more than two votes are added to the “reminder” list for
next 
year.

Although there is no physical site for the Hall of Fame and no formal  
induction ceremonies, living honorees are presented with an engraved faux
 crystal 
plaque when and as they can be located, usually at a performance in New 
York 
or elsewhere."
 
Don Robertson

Here are the names of the current inductees into the American Jazz Hall
of  
Fame:

Nat Adderley
J. "Cannonball" Adderley
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Henry "Red"  Allen
Albert Ammons
Gene Ammons
Lillian Hardin Armstrong
Louis  Armstrong
Buster Bailey 
Mildred Bailey
Chet Baker
Danny  Barker
Charlie Barnet 
Kenny Barron
William “Count” Basie 
Sydney  Bechet 
Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke 
Louis Bellson 
R. B. “Bunny” Berigan  
Leon “Chu” Berry
Barney Bigard
Eubie Blake 
Art Blakey 
Jimmy  Blanton
Ruby Braff 
Bob Brookmeyer
Clifford Brown
Lawrence Brown  
Ray Brown
Dave Brubeck
Ray Bryant
Cabell "Cab" Calloway 
Harry  Carney 
Betty Carter 
Benny Carter
Ron Carter
Al Casey
Sid  Catlett 
Paul Chambers
A. “Doc” Cheatham 
Charlie Christian
Kenny  Clarke 
Wilbur “Buck” Clayton
Jimmy Cobb
Al Cohn 
Nat “King”  Cole
Wm. R. "Cozy" Cole 
Bill Coleman
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane  
Eddie Condon
Tadd Dameron
Kenny Davern 
Miles Davis 
Wm. “Wild  Bill” Davison 
B. “Buddy” DeFranco
Paul Desmond 
Vic  Dickenson
Johnny Dodds 
Warren "Baby" Dodds
Eric Dolphy
Jimmy  Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
Eddie Durham 
George Duvivier 
Harry “Sweets”  Edison 
Roy Eldridge 
Edw. K.“Duke”Ellington 
George “Pee Wee” Erwin  
Bill Evans
Gil Evans
Herschel Evans
Talmage "Tal" Farlow
Art  Farmer
Maynard Ferguson
Ella Fitzgerald
Tommy Flanagan 
Carl  Fontana
Frank Foster
Lawrence “Bud” Freeman 
Erroll Garner 
Stan  Getz
Terry Gibbs
John B. “Dizzy” Gillespie 
Benny Golson
Benny  Goodman
Dexter Gordon
Norman Granz 
Stephane Grappelli
Freddie  Green
Sonny Greer 
Bobby Hackett 
Bob Haggart 
Edmond Hall  
Lionel Hampton
L. W. “Slide” Hampton
Herbie Hancock 
W. C.  Handy
Roland Hanna
Barry Harris
Bill Harris
Coleman Hawkins 
Roy  Haynes
Jimmy Heath
Percy Heath
Fletcher Henderson 
Jon Hendricks  
Woody Herman 
J.C. Higginbotham
Earl “Fatha” Hines 
Milt Hinton  
Johnny Hodges 
Billie Holiday
Bill Holman
Helen Humes
Dick Hyman  
Milt Jackson 
Illinois Jacquet
Ahmad Jamal
Albert “Budd”  Johnson
James P. Johnson 
James L. “JJ” Johnson
Elvin Jones 
Hank  Jones 
Jonathan “Jo” Jones
Quincy Jones
Robert E. "Jonah" Jones
Thad  Jones
Louis Jordan 
Max Kaminsky 
Wynton Kelly
Stan Kenton
John  Kirby
Andy Kirk
Lee Konitz
Gene Krupa
Donald Lambert
Eddie Lang  
John Lewis
Jimmie Lunceford
Shelly Manne
Wynton Marsalis
Jimmy  McGriff
Dave McKenna 
Jimmy McPartland
Marian McPartland
Carmen  McRae 
Jay McShann
Bubber Miley 
Charlie Mingus 
Hank  Mobley
Thelonious Monk 
Wes Montgomery
James Moody
Joe Mooney
Joe  Morello 
Ferd. “Jelly Roll” Morton 
Benny Moten
Gerry Mulligan
Ray  Nance
Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton
Theodore "Fats" Navarro
Frankie  Newton
Jimmie Noone 
Kenneth “Red” Norvo 
Anita O’Day 
Joe “King”  Oliver 
Melvin J.”Sy” Oliver 
Edward "Kid" Ory
Oran “Hot Lips” Page  
Charlie Parker
Joe Pass
Les Paul
Oscar Peterson
Art  Pepper
Oscar Pettiford
Joseph "Flip" Phillips 
Bucky  Pizzarelli
Benny Powell
Earl “Bud” Powell
Russell Procope
Ma Rainey  
Don Redman 
Django Reinhart 
Bernard “Buddy” Rich 
Max Roach  
Sonny Rollins 
Frank Rosolino
Annie Ross
Jimmy Rowles
Jimmy  Rushing
Chas. “Pee Wee” Russell
Charlie Shavers 
Artie Shaw
George  Shearing 
Wayne Shorter
Horace Silver 
John Haley “Zoot” Sims  
Arthur “Zutty” Singleton 
Bessie Smith
H. Leroy "Stuff" Smith
Jimmy  Smith 
Willie “The Lion” Smith 
F. J. "Muggsy" Spanier
Jess  Stacy
Leroy E. “Slam” Stewart 
Rex Stewart 
Sonny Stitt 
Billy  Strayhorn 
Ralph Sutton
George "Buddy" Tate 
Art Tatum
Billy Taylor  
Jack Teagarden 
Clark Terry 
Eli "Lucky" Thompson
Mel Torme
Dave  Tough
Lennie Tristano
Frank Trumbauer 
Sarah Vaughan 
Joe Venuti  
Thomas “Fats” Waller 
William “Chick” Webb 
Ben Webster 
Dick  Wellstood
Frank Wess
Randy Weston
Bob Wilber 
Joe Wilder
Chas.  “Cootie” Williams
Claude "Fiddler" Williams
Joe Williams 
Mary Lou  Williams
Gerald Wilson
Teddy Wilson
Phil Woods
Eugene “Snooky” Young  
James "Trummy" Young 
Lester Young