Rushen, Moreire and Lundy have all received Grammy nominations. Rushen also landed a top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in ...

Jazz broadcaster Rhonda Hamilton, recipient of the 2026 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy, played a ...

"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 ...

The 2026 NEA Jazz Masters are singer Carmen Lundy, keyboardist Patrice Rushen, percussionist Airto Moreira, and broadcaster ...

“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 ...

SEVEN LIVING LEGENDS OF AMERICAN MUSIC ARE NAMED AS NEW NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS JAZZ MASTERS WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2006 - Standing before an audience of jazz fans at Washington's Lincoln ...

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 ...

NEW YORK- America's first family of jazz - patriarch Ellis Marsalis Jr. and four of his sons - were presented the nation's highest jazz honor Tuesday night at the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts ...

Across his acclaimed career, Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. has composed in numerous styles of music. He’s combined genres and broken them apart. He’s invented them, too. But in his newest pieces, ...

Santa Monica College will present the SMC Jazz Ensemble in a live concert on Monday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Music Hall at ...

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, ...