Dave Flippo recently received a 2025 Catalyst Grant from the Illinois Arts Council.  The Planet Flippo Ensemble will be recording, producing and promoting their next, seventh, CD in 2025 with these funds.  The project will be a mix of new Flippo originals and several of his arrangements of contemporary tunes. The ensemble is also a recent winner of the Jazz Connects Jukebox Jury Award for their arrangement and recording of If Six Was Nine by Jimi Hendrix on their CD "Life on Mars."