Pulitzer Prize for Music
Jazz musicians who received the Pulitzer Prize for Music: list of 7 recipients by year.
The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of seven Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually in Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first given in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year, and this was eventually converted into a prize: "For a distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year." Because of the requirement that the composition have its world premiere during the year of its award, the winning work had rarely been recorded and sometimes had received only one performance. In 2004, the terms were modified to read: "For a distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year."
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Recipients
| 2020 | Anthony Davis American pianist and composer |
| 2016 | Henry Threadgill American jazz musician (born 1944) |
| 2007 | Ornette Coleman American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer… |
| 1997 | Wynton Marsalis American jazz musician and educator |
| 1994 | Gunther Schuller American composer and conductor (1925–2015) |
| 1990 | Mel Powell American composer (1923-1998) |
| 1945 | Aaron Copland American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor… |