Awards
- In 1980 David Murray was named Village Voice Musician of the Decade
- Murray was honoured with the Bird Award in 1986.
- Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989
- David Murray and his band earned a Grammy Award in 1989 in the Best Jazz Instrumental Group Performance category for Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane
- 1991 honoured with the Danish Jazzpar Prize
- Newsday named him Musician of the Year in 1993
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