The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship, established in 1982 by the National Endowment for the Arts, has always recognized jazz artists of sterling achievement from coast to coast. But this year, its focus ...

Baseball has Cooperstown. Hollywood has stars on the Walk of Fame. And jazz has the NEA Jazz Masters. For over 40 years, the National Endowment for the Arts has bestowed the honor to a select few ...

SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: Four living jazz legends will receive $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts. They're the latest class of the Endowment's Jazz Masters Fellowship, which, in the past, ...

In honor of the 2023 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters—Regina Carter, Kenny Garrett, Louis Hayes, and Sue Mingus—the NEA is collaborating with the John F. Kennedy Center for the ...

The winners of the 2023 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship have been announced! Three Black musicians born and raised in Detroit—drummer, Louis Hayes, saxophonist Kenny Garrett, and violinist, Regina ...

Terence Blanchard, Willard Jenkins, Amina Claudine Myers and Gary Bartz have been selected as the 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters. For more than 40 years, the NEA has annually ...

A celebration to honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Marshall Allen, Chucho Valdés, Marilyn Crispell and Gary Giddins.... The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship began in 1982, ...