The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the 2026 recipients of the Jazz Masters Fellowship, billed as the highest award bestowed by the United States on jazz musicians and advocates. They ...

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, ...

Celebrate the esteemed recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship: virtuoso vocalist/pianist Amina Claudine Myers, prolific saxophonist Gary Bartz, Grammy-winning trumpet player Terence Blanchard, ...

The National Endowment for the Arts announced the newest recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. The NEA describes it as the nation’s highest honor in jazz. Four living jazz legends will ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Members of the public will soon be able to purchase tickets for the 2024-2025 River City Jazz Masters series in Baton Rouge. According to organizers, season tickets go on ...

The Irving S. Gilmore School of Music’s Jazz Masters Series presents Luciana Souza, a GRAMMY-winning composer and one of jazz’s leading singers. Celebrated for her transcendent vocals and ...

"We were always looking for our own sound," alto saxophonist Gary Bartz recently affirmed. "We did not want to sound like anybody else." Speaking with The Late Set, a WRTI podcast, Bartz was referring ...

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, has honored Ella ...