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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), every year honors up to seven jazz musicians with Jazz Master Awards. The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowships are the self-proclaimed highest honors that the United States bestows upon jazz musicians. [ 1 ]
Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) [1] is an American jazz drummer and band leader. [2] He was with McCoy Tyner's trio for more than three years. Since 1989 he has led his own band, and together with Vincent Herring formed the Cannonball Legacy Band. He is part of the NEA Jazz Masters awards class of 2023.
Muhal Richard Abrams (born Richard Lewis Abrams; September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium. [1] He recorded and toured the United States, Canada and Europe with his orchestra, sextet, quartet, duo, and as a solo pianist.
The Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame is part of a US-based non-profit organization (The Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame Foundation [1]) that began operations in 1978 and continues to the present (2022) in San Diego County, California. David Larkin is current president.
In April 2017, Bridgewater was the recipient of an NEA Jazz Masters Award [10] with honors bestowed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and in 2018 was awarded the 2018 Maria Fisher Founder's Award by the Thelonious Monk/Hancock Institute of Jazz. [11] Bridgewater was also, in November 2019, inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. [12]
1983- Winner NEA Jazz Masters; 1982- Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band Warm Breeze; 1981- National Trustees Award; 1981- Honoree, Kennedy Center Awards; 1981- Honoree, Hollywood Walk of Fame; 1980- Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band On The Road; 1977- Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band Prime Time; 1976- Best Jazz ...
Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones; July 2, 1930 – April 16, 2023) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator. For six decades, he was one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz. [1]
He was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship award in January 2004. Hall was one of the first artists to join the fan-funded label ArtistShare and released Magic Meeting in 2005. In 2006, on behalf of the French Minister of Culture, Kareen Rispal, Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of France, bestowed Hall with the honor of Chevalier dans l ...