Archive for the 'NEA Jazz Masters' Category

The Case for Hubert Laws

Friday, July 16th, 2010

The 2011 class of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters, the highest honor this country bestows on living jazz artists and advocates, is not without controversy.  There’s been much conversation about the unprecedented elevation of the entire Marsalis Family; and just the other day while doing some research at the Institute of Jazz Studies [...]