Ridley is a recipient of the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation’s “Living Legacy Jazz Award”, an 1998 inductee the International Association for Jazz Education Hall of Fame (IAJE), an inductee of the Downbeat Magazine Jazz Education Hall of Fame, a recipient of the Benny Golson Jazz Award from Howard University, and was honored by a Juneteenth 2006 Proclamation Award from the New York City Council.
Atlantic Ocean | Bachelor of Arts | Atlantic | National Science Foundation | Atlantic Records | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Master of Arts | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | Electronic Arts | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Atlantic City, New Jersey | Atlantic City | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | California Institute of the Arts | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | martial arts | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |