Guggenheim’s seven jazz-related winners

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial FoundationÂ last weekÂ announced recipients in the U.S. and Canada of 180 fellowships from nearly 3000 applicants. Fellows in this 85th year of the program include seven who are jazz-related: composer-pianistsÂ Billy ChildsÂ (winner of two Grammies in 2006),Â Ryan CohanÂ (Chicago-based, in trumpeter Orbert Davis’s ensembles) and Chuck OwenÂ (prof of jazz studies at University of South Florida, Tampa), trumpeter-composer-educatorÂ Wadada Leo SmithÂ (of the AACM, a professor at California Institute of the Arts), professors Thomas BrothersÂ (a Louis Armstrong expert at Duke University) and Ingrid MonsonÂ (Harvard’s Quincy Jones Professor of African-American music) and choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of the dance troupe Urban Bush Women.Â

No information about the no-strings financial awards connected to the fellowship is available, but the one-time grants last year were reported to be in the neighborhood of $35,000. Congrats to all.

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