Awards
Jeannie has received many awards over the course of her career both independently as well as with her husband and musical partner, bass trombonist/arranger Jimmy Cheatham.
Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham were inducted into the San Diego Music Hall of Fame --- November 2022
San Diego Press Club
47th Annual Excellence In Journalism Awards
Magazines: Entertainment Reporting
1st Place - Jimmy Cheatham and Jim Trageser
San Diego Tribune --- 2020
Jeannie and Jimmy received The Grand Prix du Disque from the Hot Club of France. The equivalent to the Grammy (U.S.) for the CD "Sweet Baby Blues" (Concord Records)
Jeannie and Jimmy received The Bronze Award International Film and TV Festival of New York for the television special "Three Generations of the Blues" featuring Sippie Wallace – Big Mama Thornton – Jeannie Cheatham
Produced by Anasa Briggs
(A Cheatham Concept)
Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham
Jean E. Cheatham was awarded “Woman Of The Year” by the Wisconsin Women In The Arts at the conference “Women Together: A Moving Mosaic”
Jeannie and Jimmy received Lifetime Achievement Award from The Los Angeles Jazz Society - presented by Mayor Bradley
Ms. Cheatham is listed in the book “Jazz Singers - The Ultimate Guide” by Scott Yanow
Three Emmy Nominations
Jeannie received a Congressional Certificate of Recognition --- 2012
Lifetime Achievement Award – from San Diego Music, Inc.
Jeannie received Mayoral Proclamation from the city of
Madison, Wisconsin --- 2010
Placed In The Library of Congress Sound Division
The "Jazz Musician of the Year" was awarded to Jeannie by the Museum of Making Music --- 2009.
Jimmy and Jeannie were presented with The Jazz Legends Award by the San Diego Jazz Party --- 2007
Jeannie was awarded the "Zora Neale Hurston Award" by the National Association of Black Storytellers for her book, "Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On"--- 2007
The Silver Award from The Houston International Film Festival --- 1989
CEBA: Communicating Excellence To Black Audiences Award
First Place in San Diego from The National Conference of Christians and Jews
*Nominations by “The Blues Foundation” in Memphis, Tennessee:
Jeannie Cheatham - 16th W.C. Handy Blues Award Traditional Blues Female Artist --- 1995
Jeannie Cheatham - 12th Annual Blues Award Traditional Blues Female Artist --- 1991
Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham - 10th Annual Blues Award Traditional Blues Album “Back To The Neighborhood”
(Concord Jazz) --- 1989
Jeannie Cheatham - 10th Annual Blues Award Traditional Blues Female Artist --- 1989
Jeannie Cheatham - 9th Annual Blues Music Award Traditional Blues Female Artist --- 1988
Jeannie Cheatham - 8th Annual Blues Award Traditional Blues Female Artist --- 1987
Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham
and the Sweet Baby Blues Band was inducted into the Library of Congress, Fall 1997
Jeannie Cheatham - Piano/Composer/Vocalist
Jimmy Cheatham - Bass Trombone/Composer - Arranger
Band Personnel
Nolan Shaheed - Trumpet
Ricky Woodard - Tenor Sax, Clarinet
Ed “Dinky” Morris - Baritone Sax
Curtis Peagler - Alto Sax
Jimmy Noone, Jr. - Tenor Sax, Clarinet
Richard Reid - Bass
John “Iron Man” Harris - Drums
The video is part of the “Club Date”/KPBS Collection
Produced by Paul Marshall
Curated by Larry Applebaum, with support from
The Music Division and Motion Picture, Broadcast and
Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress
Made possible by Andy and Tina Rathbone.
The video was shown at the “Mary Pickford Theatre”
at the Library of Congress, September 26,1997.
Introduced by Nap Turner, Bassist, singer, and actor whose jazz radio
program can be heard on WPFW-FM in Washington, D.C.
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