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...
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Jimmy Cobb (category American jazz drummers)
an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship in 2009. Cobb was born in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 1929. Before he began his music career, he listened to jazz albums...
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National Endowment for the Arts (redirect from NEA fellowship)
the NEA awards three Lifetime Honors: NEA National Heritage Fellowships to master folk and traditional artists, NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships to jazz musicians...
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Cleo Brown (category American women jazz singers)
American blues and jazz vocalist and pianist. She was the first woman instrumentalist to receive the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. While Brown's place...
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Ira Gitler (category Jazz writers)
New Jersey Jazz Society (in 2001) and by the Jazz Journalists Association (in 2002). In 2017, Gitler was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. Gitler's...
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Wayne Shorter (category African-American jazz composers)
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. Retrieved July 20, 2022. "A Brief History of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships". Arts.gov. Retrieved July...
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for the Arts (NEA), NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships award in 2004, the highest honors that the United States government bestows upon jazz musicians. In 2005...
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Jack DeJohnette (category American jazz composers)
year, he was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for his "significant lifetime contributions [which] have helped to enrich jazz and further the growth...
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Pharoah Sanders (category African-American jazz musicians)
in 2003, a live album titled The Creator Has a Master Plan. He was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for 2016 and was honored at a tribute concert...
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Fellowships. The program was officially founded in 1982 by Bess Lomax Hawes, the first director of the Folk and Traditional Arts Program at the NEA,...
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Donald Harrison (category American jazz saxophonists)
for the Arts recognized Harrison with the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy. Harrison is "known for his hard-swinging improvisational...
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Jim Hall (musician) (category American jazz guitarists)
in June 2004 with the Baltimore Symphony. He was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship award in January 2004. Hall was one of the first artists to join...
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Maria Schneider (musician) (redirect from The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra)
of Crime)" (David Bowie) from Nothing Has Changed 2015 2019 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship Concert in the Garden was inducted into the National Recording...
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Kenny Garrett (category Post-bop jazz musicians)
Music from Berklee College of Music, Commencement Speaker. 2023: NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship Garrett was described as "The most important alto saxophonist...
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arrived 22 years after her previous release. Carter had received an NEA Jazz Master fellowship in 1992, and used part of the honorarium to fund the concert....
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Stanley Clarke (category American jazz bass guitarists)
become a 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship. A Stanley Clarke electric bass is permanently on display at the...
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2006. Swing Journal Jazz Disk Awards archive at JazzCD.jp (Japanese link) Accessed 3 January 2007. NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships: Toshiko Akiyoshi (link)...
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Chico Hamilton (category African-American jazz musicians)
Achievement Award. At the IAJE in NYC January 2004, he was awarded a NEA Jazz Master Fellowship. In December 2006, Congress confirmed the nomination of Hamilton...
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Albert Heath (category American jazz drummers)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced Heath as one of four recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, celebrated in an online concert and...
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Yusef Lateef (category American jazz composers)
Massachusetts. In 2010, he received the lifetime Jazz Master Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an independent federal agency. Established...
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James Moody (saxophonist) (category African-American jazz musicians)
University of New York (SUNY Purchase). Moody was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship in 1998 and often participated in educational programming and...
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Abdullah Ibrahim (category South African jazz pianists)
German Jazz Trophy. In July 2018, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced Abdullah Ibrahim as one of four recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships...
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Terri Lyne Carrington (category American jazz drummers)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced Carrington as one of four recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, celebrated in an online concert...
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Cyril Pahinui (category National Heritage Fellowship winners)
of Recording Arts. May 24, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2014. "NEA National Heritage Fellowships 2017". www.arts.gov. National Endowment for the Arts. Archived...
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Phil Schaap (category Jazz record producers)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced Schaap as one of four recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, celebrated in an online concert...
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Henry Threadgill (category American jazz flautists)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced Threadgill as one of four recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, celebrated in an online concert...
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Worshipful Company of Musicians (redirect from London Fellowship of Minstrels)
which are the Collard Fellowship, the Cobbett Prize for chamber music, the Santley medal for singers, the New Elizabethan Award (NEA) for guitarists, lutenists...
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Bobby Hutcherson (category American jazz vibraphonists)
(August 13, 2009). "Interview for the NEA". Bobby Hutcherson Jazz Giants. Retrieved August 16, 2016. "NEA Jazz Masters | Bobby Hutcherson", National Endowment...
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Jackie McLean (category American jazz composers)
name thinking he was actually female. He received an American Jazz Masters fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2001 and numerous other...
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Carla Bley (category 20th-century jazz composers)
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 for music composition. In 2009, she received the German Jazz Trophy "A Life for Jazz". Bley received the NEA Jazz Masters Award...
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