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The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the highest honor that our nation bestows on jazz artists. Each year since 1982, the program has elevated to its ranks a select number of living legends who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of jazz.

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News

National Endowment for the Arts Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Nat Hentoff

National Endowment for the Arts Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Mose Allison

National Endowment for the Arts Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Rudy Van Gelder

Features

Art Talk with Tabla Musician Zakir Hussain

Bill Frisell: The Guitar is My Voice

Keeping Jazz Alive in Mississippi

Publications

2016 NEA Jazz Masters

Profiles the 2016 class of NEA Jazz Masters: Gary Burton, Wendy Oxenhorn, Pharoah Sanders, and Archie Shepp with brief biographies and selected discographies. April 2016. 28 pp.

2016 Guide to the National Endowment for the Arts

The 2016 Guide provides details on the programs and activities that the NEA supports, as well as funding deadlines for our various grants. Included is information on Grants for Organizations,...

Videos

2015 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert Webcast Archive

2015 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert Webcast Archive

2015 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert

Jazz Masters Audio

Gary Burton

2016 NEA Jazz Master and Vibraphonist

Photos

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A woman in a white suit and a man in a black suit and hat stand behind a podium.

2016 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert