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 Irving S. Gilmore School of Music’s Jazz Masters Series presents Luciana Souza, a GRAMMY-winning composer and one of jazz’s leading singers. Celebrated for her transcendent vocals and ...

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 ...

This is a good year for jazz saxophonists from Memphis, Tennessee. Like his fellow Memphian George Coleman, who is three years older, Charles Lloyd (born 1938) has been named a 2015 Jazz Master of the ...

Four living jazz legends will receive $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts. They're the latest class of the Endowment's Jazz Masters Fellowship, which, in the past, has honored Ella ...

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 ...

Blue Note recording artist, pianist, composer, and educator, Arturo O’Farrill be joined by WMU Jazz Studies students and faculty for an exciting night of Afro-Latin Jazz. An 8-time GRAMMY Award winner ...

"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 ...