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:: 2002 Jazz Masters


Frank Foster
Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, Bandleader, Educator
 


Percy Heath
Bassist, Cellist
 


McCoy Tyner
Pianist, Composer, Arranger
 

   

Photo credits:
Frank Foster: by Ray Avery/ctsimages.com
Percy Heath: by Tom Pich/tompich.com
McCoy Tyner: 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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