American Book Awards
Jazz musicians who received the American Book Awards: list of 7 recipients by year.
The American Book Awards are an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers." The Award is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980. The Award honors excellence in American literature without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. Previous winners include novelists, social scientists, philosophers, poets, and historians such as Dana Gioia, Toni Morrison, Edward Said, MacKenzie Bezos, Isabel Allende, bell hooks, Don DeLillo, Derrick Bell, Robin Kelley, Joy Harjo and Tommy J. Curry.
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Recipients
| 2015 | Carlos Santana American guitarist |
| 2009 | George Lewis American composer, performer, and music scholar |
| 2001 | Ted Joans American artist (1928-2003) |
| 2000 | David Toop British musician (born 1949) |
| 1999 | Arturo Sandoval Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer |
| 1996 | Fred Ho American jazz musician, author, and activist |
| 1990 | Miles Davis American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991) |