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:: 2011 Jazz Masters


Orrin Keepnews
Producer, Writer
 


Hubert Laws
Flutist
 


David Liebman
Saxophonist, Flutist, Educator
 


Johnny Mandel
Composer, Arranger, Trumpeter, Trombonist
 


The Marsalis Family (Ellis, Jr., Wynton, Delfeayo, Jason, Branford)
Various
 

   

Photo credits:
Orrin Keepnews: Photo by Martha Egan
Hubert Laws: Courtesy of Spirit Productions, Inc.
David Liebman: by Marek Lazarski
Johnny Mandel: by Carol Friedman
The Marsalis Family (Ellis, Jr., Wynton, Delfeayo, Jason, Branford): Jos L. Knaepen

     

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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