 Mike Longo received a scholarship from the Ft. Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra in 1955, a Downbeat Hall of Fame Scholarship in 1959, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1972.He was inducted into Western Kentucky University's Wall of Fame in 2002.Longo died in Manhattan on March 23, 2020, three days after his 83rd birthday, from complications of COVID-19.