J@LC 2005 Jazz Hall of Fame Class

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August 8, 2005 (NEW YORK) – Today, Jazz at Lincoln Center released the names of the jazz masters being inducted into the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame in 2005: Count Basie, Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines, Johnny Hodges, Jo Jones, Charles Mingus, King Oliver, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins and Fats Waller. Inductees, family members of inductees, friends and fellow artists will be on hand to receive honors at the second annual private induction ceremony on September 8th at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Performers and participants will be announced prior to the event.

A 58-person international voting panel, which includes musicians, scholars and educators from 17 countries, was charged with nominating and selecting these definitive jazz artists. Each year, criteria for nomination into the hall include excellence and the significance of the artists' contributions to the development and perpetuation of jazz. The Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame was named by Jazz at Lincoln Center Board member Ahmet Ertegun and his wife, Mica, in honor of his late brother and Atlantic Records partner, Nesuhi Ertegun.

Currently, the hall's installation features its 2004 inaugural class of inductees: Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Jelly Roll Morton, Art Tatum, and Lester Young. The multi-media exhibit including the 2005 inductees, will be unveiled at the September 8th ceremony and open to the public beginning September 9th. The hall is free and open to the public between the hours of 10am-4pm, Tuesday through Sunday. The space is also open to ticket-holders in the evening.

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