takes the reader on a wonderful, exciting journey from America to Africa and back with the ease of a person who loved every minute of it. The book is hard to put down and is an engaging, pleasing literary work that is worthy of being required reading in any history or literature school course." Archives In 2015–16, Weston's archives were acquired by the Jazz Research Initiative in collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Loeb Music Library, the Harvard College Library, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Randy Weston Collection comprises hundreds of manuscripts, scores, videos, films, photographs, and more than 1,000 tape recordings, and among its highlights are correspondence with Langston Hughes and Alvin Ailey; photographs with Dizzy Gillespie, Pharoah Sanders, Muhammad Ali, and Cornel West; and records of Weston's African Rhythms Club in Tangier, Morocco, from 1967 to 1972. Awards and honors 1997: Order of Arts and Letters, France 1999: Swing Journal Award, Japan 2000: Black Star Award, Arts Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana 2001: NEA Jazz Master 2006: Honorary degree, Brooklyn College, City University of New York 2009: Giants of Jazz concert in his honor with Monty Alexander, Geri Allen, Cyrus Chestnut, Barry Harris, Mulgrew Miller and Billy Taylor. 2011: Guggenheim Fellowship award. 2011: Honored by King Mohammed VI of Morocco for "lifelong engagement with Morocco and deep commitment to bringing Morocco's Gnaoua music tradition to the attention of the Western world" 2011: Honored by Congressional Black Caucus Foundation at the Jazz Issue Forum and Concert during the 40th Annual Legislative Conference 2012: Honorary degree of Doctor of Music from Colby College 2013: Honorary degree, New England Conservatory of Music 2014: Doris Duke Artist Award 2014: JJA Jazz Award, Trio or Duo of the Year: Randy Weston – Billy Harper 2015: JJA Jazz Award, Lifetime Achievement in Jazz 2016: Malcolm X Black Unity award, National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO) with the International African Arts Festival (IAAF) 2016: DownBeat Hall of Fame. 2016: United States Artists Fellowship Award 2017: National Jazz Museum in Harlem Legends Award Discography As leader 1954: Cole Porter in a Modern Mood (Riverside) - 10-inch LP 1955: The Randy Weston Trio (Riverside) - 10-inch LP 1955: Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio (Riverside) 1956: With These Hands... (Riverside) 1955–56: Trio and Solo (Riverside) - includes all tracks on The Randy Weston Trio