When I look around me, I can't believe what I see

IAJE may be dead and buried, but the Canadian branch, CAJE, is soldiering on. And, um, they decided to give me an award:

Thank you very much for your submission to the 2008 SOCAN/IAJE Canada Phil Nimmons Jazz Composers Awards.

The winning 2008 Award recipients have been chosen and they are Mike Mallone - Phil Nimmons Established Composer Award, and Darcy James Argue - Emerging Composer Award.

There's a commission and premiere associated with the award... normally this happens at the main IAJE conference, but since that's no longer an option, they are working on some kind of alternate arrangement. Anyway, I am humbled and grateful -- it's an honor.

In other jazzcanada news, I have contributed a chapter to Brian Lillos's Jazz Pedagogy: A Canadian Perspective. My chapter is, as you may have intuited, part of "Unit 6: Contemporary Jazz Composition," alongside contributions by Secret Society North co-conspirators Christine Jensen and Lina Allemano, as well as many other worthy artists.

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1.

Congratulations, Darcy! That's awesome! :)

[mrG]

2.

All part of the master plan: We're wooing you back to the Great White North. C'mon, admit it, when was the last time you had a decent poutine? Or had to plug in a block heater? Eh? And don't you even kinda miss completely irrelevant politics? Phil Nimmons is gettin' grey; we need ya back.

[Gregory Dudzienski]

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Congrats Darcy...very well deserved!

[Auguste]

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Congratulations!

[cbj smith]

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No less than you deserve, my man! Great news.

And Phil Nimmons (Canada's Duke Ellington) is the guy pretty much single-handedly responsible for me being a composer today.

[ACB]

6.

Wow, I'm so behind on things!! Congrats, man!