NEA Jazz Masters Fellows

Black man with gray beard and glasses wearing red sequined suit, sitting, laughing.
2025
Marshall Allen
Saxophonist, Percussionist, Composer, Arranger, Bandleader
Close-up of white woman with long, straight brown hair staring into camera.
2025
Marilyn Crispell
Pianist, Composer, Educator
Portrait of white man, balding, wearing a suitcoat and looking to his left.
2025
Gary Giddins
Journalist, Author, Producer, Educator
Latino man wearing tuxedo and bow-tie, with beret, left hand holding his face, smiling.
2025
Chucho Valdés
Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Bandleader
A man holding a saxophone looks to the side.
2024
Gary Bartz
Saxophonist, Educator
A man holding a trumpet.
2024
Terence Blanchard
Trumpeter, Composer, Band Leader, Educator
Willard Jenkins
2024
Willard Jenkins
Artistic Director, Writer, Broadcaster, Educator, Oral Historian
Headshot of a woman
2024
Amina Claudine Myers
Pianist, Organist, Vocalist, Composer, Arranger, Educator
Black woman in orange jacket playing a violin.
2023
Regina Carter
Violinist, Educator
Black man wearing glasses and skullcap in blue shirt holding saxophone sideways in front of red background.
2023
Kenny Garrett
Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, Bandleader
Older Black man in a white suit outside in front of a house with a tree nearby.
2023
Louis Hayes
Drummer, Bandleader
Older woman with blonde-gray hair wearing a black dress with scarf in portrait
2023
Sue Mingus
Author, Archivist, Band Manager, Educator, Musical Director, Record Producer
Man holding acoustic bass.
2022
Stanley Clarke
Bassist, Composer, Arranger, Producer
Black man holding a saxophone in his right hand.
2022
Donald Harrison, Jr.
Cultural Activist, Saxophonist, Composer, Educator (Award for Jazz Advocacy)
Black and white photo of a man sitting behind a drum kit holding sticks in his right hand.
2022
Billy Hart
Drummer, Educator