AACM Members have been important
innovators and influencers since 1965

Executive Team

Coco Elysses

Chair
Email Chair
Khari B

Vice Chair
JoVia Armstrong

Secretary
Nicole Mitchell

Communications Secretary
Ugochi Nwaogwugwu

Treasurer
Kyla Clark

Executive Assistant

Members

Members marked with * have transitioned

AACM Awardees

Grammy Nominated Artist

Isaiah Collier
Kahil El Zabar
Justin Dillard
Corey Wilkes

   
Ugochi Nwaogwugwu

Emmy Award Winner

Corey Wilkes

Pulitzer Prize

Henry Threadgill

MacArthur Fellows

George Lewis
Anthony Braxton
Henry Threadgill
Tomeka Reid

Doris Duke

Muhal Richard Abrams
Nicole Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell
George Lewis
Anthony Braxton
Wadada Leo Smith
Henry Threadgill

Herb Alpert Award

Nicole Mitchell
Matana Roberts
Tomeka Reid

NAACP

Roscoe Mitchell

NEA Jazz Masters

Henry Threadgill 
Muhal Richard Abrams
Roscoe Mitchell
Anthony Braxton

Donovan Mixon

Guggenheim

Wadada Leo Smith
Anthony Braxton
George Lewis
Nicole Mitchell

French Knights

Kahil El Zabar
Mike Reed

McKnight Award

Douglas R. Ewart

McKnight Community Engaged Artist Fellow

Mankwe Ndosi

Creative City Making Artist

Mankwe Ndosi

3Arts

Shanta Nurullah
Dee Alexander
Coco Elysses
Mankwe Ndosi

Luminarts Fellow

Isaiah Collier

Next Jazz Legend

Alexis Lombre

City of Chicago Esteemed Artist Grant

Dee Alexander

Jesse White Award for Music Arts

Dee Alexander

Chicagoan of the Year

Dee Alexander
Nicole Mitchell
Mwata Bowden

Chicago Music Awards Jazz Entertainer of the Year

      Dee Alexander

April 11, 1999 Muhal Richard Abrams Day in Chicago, proclamation presented by Richard M. Daley, Mayor of the City of Chicago

Muhal Richard Abrams - Recipient of the Following Recognitions

      Doctor of Humane Letters – DuPaul University

  The BNY Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award

New York City Jazz Record's Musician of the Year

Honorary Doctorate of Music - Columbia University

Downbeat Magazine "Jazz Hall of Fame"