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:: 2000 Jazz Masters


David Baker
Trombonist, Cellist, Composer, Arranger, Educator
 


Donald Byrd
Trumpeter, Flugelhornist, Educator
 


Marian McPartland
Pianist, Broadcaster
 

   

Photo credits:
David Baker: by Tom Pich/tompich.com
Donald Byrd: by Lee Tanner/jazzimage.com
Marian McPartland: by Melissa Goh

     

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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