Jazz Legends Awards

Dominion Energy

Charitable Foundation

Dominion Energy and the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation are longtime supporters of Cuyahoga Community College and Tri-C JazzFest. Since this partnership began decades ago, Dominion Energy’s support of scholarships and programs has advanced the lives of thousands of individuals and their families by providing opportunities for them to pursue their dreams. Through JazzFest and the Tri-C Youth Jazz Camp, hundreds of youth experience world-class music education and receive instruction from renowned artists. Dominion Energy’s engagement continues to build a vibrant community through education and the music we love.

Steve Enos

Trumpeter, Jazz Educator

As founding director of the award-winning Tri-C JazzFest High School AllStars program, trumpeter Steve Enos has a strong passion and vision for advancing the future of jazz.

Enos began his musical career in California with the U.S. Navy Band before returning east to earn a bachelor’s degree in professional music/ jazz performance from Boston’s Berklee College of Music and a master’s in music education from the University of Akron. He found his way to Cuyahoga Community College in 1995, establishing the Tri-C Jazz Studies program, which maintains articulation agreements with both Berklee and the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at Connecticut’s Hartt School of Music.

When he’s not in the classroom, Enos can be heard performing with Ernie Krivda and the Fat Tuesday Big Band, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Playhouse Square Orchestra.

Each year, the Tri-C JazzFest Legends Award is presented to Northeast Ohio individuals and organizations who demonstrate outstanding achievement in jazz performance, education, advocacy or philanthropy.

Joe Mosbrook

Jazz Historian

Celebrated Northeast Ohio broadcast journalist Joe Mosbrook turned his passion for jazz into a creative odyssey, documenting the rich and previously untold history of Cleveland jazz.

His earliest writings, featured in the Northeast Ohio Jazz Society newsletter, were reformatted for radio at the request of WCPN. His features, numbering nearly 1,700, have been broadcast weekly for the past 33 years.

Mosbrook’s earliest broadcasting experience was hosting jazz programs at NBC radio during college. Since arriving in Cleveland in 1967, he has covered most major Northeast Ohio news events, reporting for WKYC-TV and NBC while keeping up with Cleveland’s jazz scene.

Encouraged by Tri-C JazzFest, Mosbrook authored Cleveland Jazz History in 1993 and its greatly expanded second edition in 2003.

The George Gund Foundation

Nonprofit Institution

Founded in 1952 as a private nonprofit institution, The George Gund Foundation contributes to human well-being and the progress of society. Since its inception, the Foundation has donated $722 million to the arts, civic engagement, community and economic development, environmental policy, human services, public education and racial equality. As a friend and supporter of the Cuyahoga Community College Foundation, The Gund Foundation makes free outdoor Tri-C JazzFest concerts possible, ensuring the program’s continued growth through expanded community engagement.