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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.
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]
Eight years later, he was honored as an NEA Jazz Master. [3] He continued to perform and record, and was a faculty member of the New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) School of Jazz Studies (SJS). [11] Fuller died May 8, 2021, at the age of 88. He had eight children, nine grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren. [1]
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.
The band has toured extensively and has recorded six albums together. [2] In 2021, Hart was announced as a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master, along Stanley Clarke, Cassandra Wilson, and Donald Harrison, Jr. [10] Hart resides in Montclair, New Jersey, where he has a music studio described by JazzTimes as his "inner sanctum ...
Swing Kids played two reunion shows, both with Unbroken: a mostly secret show on May 8, 2009, at the Ché Cafe at UCSD in San Diego, CA and on May 9, 2009, at the Glass House in Pomona, CA. The Pomona show was a benefit for selected charities, and tickets were sold out very shortly after going on sale, despite the $25 price.
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]