Jazz Museum in Harlem Founder Leonard Garment Awarded the National Medal of The Arts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 11/10/05

Washington, DC— Jazz Museum in Harlem founder Leonard Garment was awarded the National Medal of The Arts along with fellow Jazz Museum Board Member Wynton Marsalis. Other honorees included author Louis Auchincloss of New York, symphony orchestra conductor James DePreist of Portland, Ore., jazz musician Paquito D'Rivera of Bergen, N.J., actor Robert Duvall of Plains, Va., and film animator and artist Ollie Johnston of La Canada, Calif., the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, choreographer Tina Ramirez of New York and singer and actress Dolly Parton.

The National Humanities Medal recipients are historian Walter Berns of Bethesda, Md., New York Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos, professor Eva Brann of Annapolis, Md., historian John Lewis Gaddis of New Haven, Conn., The Papers of George Washington, Charlottesville, Va., legal scholar Mary Ann Glendon of Cambridge, Mass., historian Alan Kors of Wallingford, Pa., art historians and appraisers Leigh and Leslie Keno of New York, author and columnist Judith Martin of Washington, D.C., and history patrons Richard Gilder of New York and Lewis Lehrman of Greenwich, Conn.