2000 Detroit Music Awards for Outstanding Jazz -- Traditional

2000 Detroit Music Awards Outstanding Jazz Instrumentalist

2000 Detroit Music Awards Outstanding Jazz recording, "George Benson -- Sax Master"

2001 CD recording "George Benson -- Sax Master" has been placed into the Detroit Time Capsule to be opened in the year 2101 as a sample of what jazz was like in the year 2001.

Lifetime Music Achievement Award -- 2002 Detroit Music Awards

Central State University -- Outstanding Service Award, Wilberforce, Ohio