[Dixielandjazz] Sacramento Jazz Festival List of Emperors

[Robert Ringwald]

Each year since 1977 the Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee honors someone who they feel have contributed a lot to the Festival and Jazz in general.  

Bill Haesler was asking for the list.  Thanks to the STJS Jazz Historian Ron Swehla and the STJS newsletter editor "And All That Jazz" Nancy Giffin, here is the list.  

1977: Shakey Johnson
1978: Benson Curtis
1979: Vince Marino
1980: Joe Darensbourg
1981: Pete Daily
1982: Papa Jack Assunto
1983: Norma Teagarden Friedlander
1984: Bob Crosby
1985: Floyd Levin
1986: Dick Cary
1987: Wild Bill Davison
1988: Dr. Ed Lawless
1989: Willis Conover
1990: Monte Ballou
1991: Phil Jenkins
1992: Abe Most
1993: Bill Borcher
1994: Phil Elwood
1995: Spiegle Willcox
1996: Bob Helm
1997: George Probert
1998: Bill Allred
1999: Pat Yankee
2000: Tom Saunders
2001: Charles Champlin
2002: Jake Hanna
2003: Johnny Varro
2004: Howard Alden
2005: Jim Galloway
2006: Chuck Hedges
2007: Steve Hammond
2008: Big Tiny Little
2009: Bob Havens
2010: Bob Draga
2011 Tom Rigney
2012 Bob Ringwald


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