There was a little twist in last Wednesday’s announcement of next year’s National Endowment for the Arts’ Jazz Masters Award recipients. Not only was pianist Dr. Billy Taylor on hand to perform at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I recently received from the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters 1982-2011, a large, handsomely produced history of the award that former NEA Chairman Dana Gioia worked hard to make the ...

Chairman Carter said, "The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to bring its annual Jazz Masters celebration to Los Angeles, a city deeply connected to the history of jazz and to this year's ...

For 40 years, the National Endowment for the Arts has honored individuals for their lifetime contributions to jazz, an art form that continues to expand and find new audiences. New Orleans musician ...