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:: 1987 Jazz Masters


Cleo Brown
Pianist, Vocalist
 


Melba Liston
Trombonist, Composer, Arranger, Educator
 


Jay McShann
Pianist, Vocalist, Bandleader
 

   

Photo credits:
Cleo Brown: courtesy of Ray Avery Photo Archives ctsimages.com
Melba Liston: by Lee Tanner/jazzimage.com
Jay McShann: by Lee Tanner/jazzimage.com

     

The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowships are the highest honors that our government bestows upon jazz musicians. These fellowships are given in recognition that this magnificent art form, so profoundly based in American culture, is one of America's greatest gifts to the world.

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