Following the ceremony, a jazz band led by Juilliard jazz director Victor Goines will perform.

Admission is free. For more information, call 718-920-1460 or email [email protected].

Jacquet was born in Louisiana and grew up in Houston. He made his most indelible mark on the jazz world at age 19, when he recorded a screeching, passionate solo for Hampton's Flying Home. The recording was a huge hit, and the solo—sometimes credited as the first rhythm and blues solo—became a nightly feature of Hampton's act.

After leaving Hampton's band, Jacquet played with Cab Calloway and Count Basie and with a series of small groups. Starting in 1981, he led his own big band. He was a revered and omnipresent figure in the last decades of his life, appearing at Bill Clinton's inaugural ball in 1993 and in annual concerts at Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing series.