Chuck Niles Jazz Music Award Competition accepting submissions

The fourth annual Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival, presented by Paradise Cadillac, the City of Temecula, Riverside County Third District Supervisor Jeff Stone, Paul and Diane Garrett/Better World Together and Altura Credit Union, is now accepting submissions for the Chuck Niles Jazz Music Award Competition. “We have inherited Chuck’s private music collection and are in the beginning stages of building the Temecula Valley Cultural Arts & Music Center, which will be home to the Chuck Niles Memorial Jazz Library,” said festival founder and CEO Jon Laskin. “To help bring attention to this project, and to help keep jazz music alive, we have created the Chuck Niles Jazz Music Award Competition as a part of the International Jazz Festival.”

Niles’ widow, Nancy, and daughter Tracy will serve as judges for the competition, with the finalists given $500 to help them perform at this year’s festival, Saturday, July 14. The winner will also receive the Chuck Niles Jazz Music Award certificate, as well as a day of recording at the Parkhill Music–Gwenn Gordy Studio.

Musicians and bands wishing to enter may do so online at http://www.musiciansworkshop.org/ChuckNilesJazzMusicAward.html. For more information call Jon or Jane Laskin at (951) 678-2517 or visit http://www.TemeculaJazzFest.com.