Robert Ginsburg, host of KUAF's "Shades of Jazz" and founder of the Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society, will be one of 26 people from across the U.S. to receive the Jazz Journalist Association Hero Award for 2016, according to a news release from the Walton Arts Center.
The award is meant to honor people who are “advocates, altruist activist, aiders and abettors of jazz and who have had significant impact in their community," the news release stated.
Ginsburg began as a volunteer producer of a jazz radio show on KUAF in 1979, founded the Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society in 1992 and launched the society's summer concert series in 1999. He is also the jazz curator for the Walton Arts Center.
“The Jazz Journalist Association couldn’t have awarded a more deserving recipient representing our jazz community than Robert Ginsburg,” said Peter B. Lane, president & CEO, Walton Arts Center. “He has played an active role fostering an appreciation of jazz through music performances, his radio program and educating our youth in Northwest Arkansas.”