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:: 1996 Jazz Masters


Tommy Flanagan
Pianist
 


Benny Golson
Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, Educator
 


James Louis "J.J." Johnson
Trombonist, Composer, Arranger
 

   

Photo credits:
Tommy Flanagan: by Lee Tanner/jazzimage.com
Benny Golson: by Tom Pich/tompich.com
James Louis "J.J." Johnson: 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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