The honorees are from Detroit, which is said to be the hometown of 10% of the jazz masters since 1982, the inception of the awards.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently announced the recipients of the 2023 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship and the three musicians are all from Detroit.
Regina Carter, Kenny Garrett and Louis Hayes have each been awarded $25,000, and will be honored during a public concert in Washington, D.C., next year at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Kennedy Center). Additionally, artist Sue Mingus — widow of jazz great Charles Mingus — is the recipient of the 2023 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy, according to a statement on the NEA today!
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