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 ...

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 ...

In a fraught moment for two institutions behind the awards, this year's NEA Jazz Masters ceremony celebrated musicians who have upheld the genre's... Jason Moran opened the 2025 NEA Jazz Masters ...

Few musicians have been as delightfully and fascinatingly weird as Sun Ra. He was born Herman Poole Blount, changed his name to honor the Egyptian god of the sun, believed he was an angelic being from ...

When the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Awards ceremony and associated events happened a couple of weeks ago, I was caught on the horns of adeadline dilemma and had to skip the televised ...

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, ...

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 ...