In a concert and ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the National Endowment for the Arts recognized its latest class of NEA Jazz Masters on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. The honor, here in ...

One of the more surprising recent developments in the jazz world is the increasing awareness of the National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Awards. The program has existed since 1982, but until ...

A celebration too honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Amina Claudine Myers, Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard and Willard... "We were always looking for our own sound," alto ...

The highest federally supported award for jazz artistry goes to four individuals this year. In a live performance from Jazz at Lincoln Center in... In a concert and ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center ...

The 2025 class of the NEA's Jazz Masters was celebrated at a concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. This year's fellows included (from left to right) saxophonist Marshall ...

NEA Jazz Masters are selected from nominations submitted by the public and receive a one-time fellowship award of $25,000, are honored at a public awards ceremony, and may participate in NEA-sponsored ...

The National Endowment for the Arts is enhancing its Jazz Masters program by organizing an annual tour and collaborating on a CD project and radio profiles of its honorees. NEA Chairman Dana Gioia ...

This is a good year for jazz saxophonists from Memphis, Tennessee. Like his fellow Memphian George Coleman, who is three years older, Charles Lloyd (born 1938) has been named a 2015 Jazz Master of the ...

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A hard-bop stalwart. An avant-garde original. A ceiling-shattering bandleader. A bebop-obsessive broadcaster. These are some brief descriptors for the incoming class of NEA Jazz Masters, announced ...

In a concert and ceremony held Tuesday at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, the National Endowment for the Arts recognized its 2011 class of NEA Jazz Masters. The honor is the country's highest ...