Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame Inductees
1990
Ernestine Anderson
Al Hood
Chuck Metcalf
Floyd Standifer
1991
Buddy Catlett
Don Lanphere
1992
Jabo Ward
Jim Wilke
1993
Fred Greenwell
Melody Jones
1994
Clarence Acox
Bud Young
1995
Jerome Gray
1996
Norm Bobrow
William O. (Bill) Smith
1997
Lola Pedrini
Bill Ramsay
1998
Jan Stentz
Leon Vaughn
1999
Vonne Griffin
Red Kelly
2000
Bud Shank
Chuck Stentz
2001
John Dimitriou
Julian Priester
2002
Paul de Barros
2003
Ronnie Pierce
Jay Thomas
2004
Gaye Anderson
Hadley Caliman
Robert Knatt
2005
Gary Steele
Mack Waldron
Woody Woodhouse
2006
Jim Knapp
KPLU
2007
John Bishop
Dean Hodges
2008
KBCS 91.3
Phil Sparks
2009
Marc Seales
Stuart Dempster
2010
Chuck Deardorf
Wayne Horvitz
2011
Overton Berry
Jeff Johnson
Jovino Santos Neto
2012
Scott Brown
Dave Peck
2013
Bill Frisell
Bert Wilson
2014
Amy Denio
Greta Matassa
2015
Ruby Bishop
Sonny Booker
Randy Halberstadt
2016
Bill Anschell
Jay Clayton
2017
Patty Padden
Skerik
2018
Bob Hammer
Helen and David Marriott Sr.
Wally Shoup
2019
Michael Brockman
Suzanne Weghorst
Gary Bannister
2020
Robin Holcomb
Moc Escobedo
Hans Teuber
2021
Geoff Harper
Marv Thomas
Oscar Holden
2022
Milo Petersen
Nathan Breedlove
2023
Thomas Marriott
Eugenie Jones
About the Golden Ear Awards
Earshot Jazz initiated the Golden Ear Awards in 1990 to recognize the accomplishments of Seattle jazz artists over the previous year, and to induct significant members of the jazz community into the local Jazz Hall of Fame. Over the years, the award categories have shifted slighty, but the essence of the process has remained the same.
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