With this award, Jamey joins other jazz luminaries such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong and others. In 1989, the International Association of Jazz Educators inducted Jamey into their Hall of Fame at the San Diego convention. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music by Indiana University in 1992. He attended college at Indiana University and graduated in 1962 with a Masters Degree in Saxophone. Jamey Aebersold was born July 21, 1939, in New Albany, Indiana. Note: A full transcript of the interview is available here: He is currently performing, recording, teaching, writing, and has completed a new book, The Art of Is. He lives with his family in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has published articles in a variety of fields since 1966, and has created computer software including The World Music Menu and Visual Music Tone Painter. He has collaborated with other artists in media including music, dance, theater, and film, and has developed programs melding art, music, literature, and computer technology. He has presented master classes and workshops at many conservatories and universities, and has had numerous appearances on radio, television, and at music and theater festivals. In the 1970s he was a pioneer in free improvisation on violin, viola and electric violin. He has taught and lectured widely in the United States and abroad on creativity and the spiritual underpinnings of art.

His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson. in the History of Consciousness for an exploration of William Blake.

Born in 1950, he graduated in 1971 from Harvard and in 1975 from the University of California, where he earned a Ph.D. He is the author of Free Play (Penguin, 1990) and The Art of Is (New World Library, 2019). Stephen Nachmanovitch performs and teaches internationally as an improvisational violinist, and at the intersections of music, dance, theater, and multimedia arts. His new book The Art of Is: Improvisation as a way of life

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