The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship began in 1982, establishing a lifetime achievement honor for practitioners of a uniquely American art form. One of the first three inductees was Sun Ra — a composer, ...
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 ...
"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 ...