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The Tribeca Film Festival announced the sponsors for the 2007 Festival, which includes the addition of marquee brands AARP, Axium Entertainment, Montblanc, Target and Yahoo!, as well as the continued support of numerous returning sponsors, including Founding Sponsor American Express.

Montblanc will present the 15th Annual International Montblanc de la Culture Award at an exclusive gala during the Festival. The nominees for the award, which supports the arts in ten countries, are Wynton Marsalis, Quincy Jones and Martha Richards.
The Tribeca Film Festival, now in its sixth year, will take place April 25 - May 6, 2007.

On June 22, Wynton has been honored with the 2006 Drum Major for Justice Award.
The event was organized by the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy and took place in New York, on June 22, at Lotus (409 West 14th Street).

Here’s a complete photo-set from the event.

Jazz ABZ, written by Wynton Marsalis and illustratred by Paul Rogers, is the Winner of the 2006 Bologna Ragazzi Special Award: Words and Music.
This is a special section for books on music to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of W. A. Mozart, who lived in Bologna while studying at the Conservatoire.
BolognaRagazzi 2006 is promoted by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in collaboration with Ibby Italia. Among the most prestigious international awards conferred each year to the children’s publishers.

Jazz ABZ is available on Amazon.com

Wynton’s latest album: Live at House of Tribes has been nominated for a Grammy in “Best Jazz Instrumental Album” category.

U.S. President George Bush plans to present the 2005 National Humanities Medals and National Medals of Arts in Oval Office ceremonies Thursday.
Wynton is among those who will receive a National Medal of Arts.
In addition to Wynton, this year’s Medal of Arts honorees are author Louis Auchincloss; conductor James DePriest; musician Paquito D’Rivera; arts advocate Leonard Garment; artist Ollie Johnston; musician Wynton Marsalis; singer Dolly Parton; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and dancer Tina Ramirez.

In occasion of Smithsonian’s 35th anniversary, the Smithsonian Magazine wrote a list of 35 individuals who made a difference.
Wynton is one of them.

At a special U.S. Department of State ceremony December 13, Secretary of State Colin Powell honored 13 celebrities in the arts and sports who serve as the Department’s CultureConnect ambassadors, reaching out to young people around the world. The CultureConnect program, created by Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia S. Harrison, recruits men and women acclaimed in their fields who are willing to contribute their time and talent on behalf of youth.

Those honored at the ceremony include: dancer and choreographer Debbie Allen; opera singer Denyce Graves; architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of the new World Trade Center site in New York; Michael Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington; cellist Yo-Yo Ma; jazz trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis; Frank McCourt, teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela’s Ashes; photographer Joel Meyerowitz, whose exhibit of post-9/11 images from the World Trade Center has toured the world; actress Doris Roberts, an Emmy award winner for her role in the popular television series Everybody Loves Raymond; actor, director and producer Ron Silver; and singer Mary Wilson, an original member of the famous Motown group, the Supremes.

The 4th Annual International Assosiation for Jazz Education Gala Dinner, scheduled for Wednesday, January 21, at the New York Sheraton Hotel, will honor Jazz at Lincoln Center Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis with the IAJE President’s Award.
The Gala will be hosted by Nancy Wilson, and all proceeds will benefit the IAJE Global Outreach Fund. The IAJE Presidents Award, which honors an individual for their extraordinary contributions to the field of jazz education, was presented to Dr. Oscar Peterson in 2003, Quincy Jones in 2002 and Ken Burns in 2001.