Recognition/Awards
- 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Arts / Music Composition category
- Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Award ("Skies Over Emilia")
- 2006 Fellowship, from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
- The 2005 Mellon Jazz 2005 Living Legacy Award, from The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
- The Distinguished Achievement Award, 2001, The International Society of Bassists
- Outstanding Educator of 1999, The New Jersey Chapter of the IAJE
- Humanitarian Award, 1997, The International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)
- 1998 Jazz Educator Achievement Award, BASS PLAYER magazine
- Raymond and Beverly Sackler Composition Competition 2006 Award Winner, administered by the University of Connecticut
- 2006 ASCAP/IAJE Billy Strayhorn Commission Recipient
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