Ken Page Lifetime Achievement Award 

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2008 Lifetime Achievement Award  (read more about this Award below)

Our 2008 honoree is journalist and music critic, Geoff Chapman, who received his award on 8th April 2008, at the National Jazz Awards. [read more about Geoff (pdf)]
 
 
Geoff Chapman 2008 recipient of the Ken Page Lifetime Achievement Award
- photo by Don Vickery

 
 Geoff Chapman receives his personalised keepsake award from Jim Galloway
- photo by Don Vickery

 
Jim Galloway honours Geoff Chapman in the foreground of the projected Ken Page Lifetime Achievement  Award - photo by Don Vickery

About the Ken Page Lifetime Achievement Award 

The Ken Page Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually by the Ken Page Memorial Trust in recognition of exceptional individual contributions to the development and growth of jazz in Canada.

Each year the honoree will receive a personalised rendering of the award as a lasting keepsake.

This is the permanent display memento, commissioned by the Ken Page Memorial Trust in 2008 for design by Rita So of Creative Art Glass Inc., Toronto.

The medium is etched glass on an engraved base which commemorates the names of all previous recipients from the time the KPMT honours were first bestowed during the 2002 National Jazz Awards.
(larger picture below)

The stylized music staff in the design depicts the final four bars of “Why Did I Choose You?” from the 1965 Broadway production of “The Yearling” (music by Michael Leonard; lyrics by Herbert Martin) 

“…if I had to choose again, I would still choose you…”

 

 


PREVIOUS HONOREES

2007 Jack Long, founding Chairman of Long & McQuade Musical Instruments

2006 Lothar & Brigitte Lang, owners and operators of the Montreal Bistro & Jazz Club

2005 Doug Cole, founding owner and operator of Canada’s longest-running jazz club, George’s Spaghetti House

2004 John Norris, co-founder of Sackville Records; founding editor of Coda Magazine

2003 Ted O’Reilly, broadcaster, writer, producer

2002 Phil Sheridan, recording engineer, producer, record label principal

© Ken Page Memorial Trust 2008

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