The NEA, or National Endowment for the Arts, every year honors up to seven jazz musicians with Jazz Master Awards. The award is usually given late in a performers career after they have established themselves. The NPR radio program Jazz Profiles has featured many Jazz Masters such as Herbie Hancock. The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Hancock is one of jazz musics most important and influential pianists and composers. ...
Kenneth Earl Burrell (born in 1931) is an American jazz guitarist. ... Slide Hampton is a jazz trombonist and arranger. ... Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an accomplished jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and writer. ... Jimmy Smith (December 8, 1925 – February 8, 2005) was a jazz musician whose instrument was the Hammond organ B-3 electric organ. ...
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