Aretha Franklin to be Honored at Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz

Aretha Franklin Isaiah Trickey/FilmMagic Aretha Franklin will receive the Thelonious Monk Rosetta Stone Spanish Institute of Jazzs Founders Award at the organizations 25th anniversary event in Washington, D.C. next month. The soul legend will be honored at a gala event held at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater on September 12th, which will be sponsored by Cadillac and feature appearances from luminaries such as Madeleine Albright, Quincy Jones and Colin Powell. Photos: The Best Soul Singers of All TimeIn addition to celebrating the music of Franklin, the institution will also present its 2011 International Jazz Piano Competition Semifinals, in which 12 pianists will compete. The performances will be critiqued by a panel of judges including Herbie Hancock, Ellis Marsalis, Danilo Perez and Jason Moran. Three finalists will then go on to compete for scholarship prizes and a recording contract with Concord Music Group. And if it depresses you to think that the musics defining masterpiece came out the same year as the first hand-held calculator, how must its creators feel? Their obsession with Exile ended when everyone elses began that is, when the last of the tracks finally Cheap Rosetta Stone Software got mixed and theyre long since burned out on the subject. But theyre being good sports; their brand-label, Universal Music Group, has invested a fortune in this conspicuously backward-looking venture. The first words out of Richards mouth are, "Exile on fucking Main Street, right?" He laughs when he says it, but he has spent the past year "stuck in trying to remember the past" while working with the writer James Fox on an autobiography due to be published in October. "If theyd look up the court records," he says, "theyd have more facts than I do." The other Stones and their circle have been sharing recollections for Richards book, the new documentary required still more interviews, and now that the Exile package is finally coming out, its the reporters turn. "Its just gone on a bit," Watts says. "Im sure Micks fed up with it Rosetta Stone Japanese, because hes not a great lover of yesterday."

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