“They’ve sent folks to do master classes in the past, but never anything on this level,” said East St. Louis High School Jazz Ensemble Director Delano Redmond. “Hopefully the students will understand ...

The National Endowment for the Arts launched NEA Jazz Masters on Tour in April 2004 with a smaller scale program that helped bring artists such as Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Heath and ...

The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship began in 1982, establishing a lifetime achievement honor for practitioners of a uniquely American art form. One of the first three inductees was Sun Ra — a composer, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the 2026 recipients of the Jazz Masters Fellowship, billed as the highest award ...

NEA Jazz Masters are returning to Flushing Town Hall with a Miles Davis tribute for jazz lovers to ring in the start of ...

A saxophonist of otherworldly gusto, two pianists of impulsive eloquence and a critic with a pen nearly as sharp as his ears — these are just a few choice epithets for the 2025 class of NEA Jazz ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...