2022 NEA Jazz Masters Celebrated in March 31 Tribute Concert
From National Endowment for the Arts
NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert—Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 9:30 p.m. CT/10:30 p.m. ET
Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts will honor the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters—Stanley Clarke, Donald Harrison, Jr., Billy Hart, and Cassandra Wilson—and kick off a year-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the program with a concert on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at 9:30 p.m. CT/10:30 p.m. ET. Held in collaboration with SFJAZZ at the SFJAZZ Center’s Robert N. Miner Auditorium (201 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA), the concert is free and open to the public and also available through a live webcast and radio broadcast. In addition, the honorees will participate in a Meet the NEA Jazz Masters virtual conversation, available on-demand the week before the concert.
2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves will host the concert, which will celebrate the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters’ contributions to jazz through performances, video tributes, and remarks.
The concert will feature performances by 2022 honorees Stanley Clarke, Billy Hart, and Donald Harrison, Jr. Additional performers include Jeremiah Collier, Joe Dyson, Ethan Iverson, Dan Kaufman, Salar Nader, Noriatsu Naraoka, Ruslan Sirota, Ben Street, and Mark Turner, as well as the SFJAZZ Collective—Matt Brewer, Etienne Charles, Martin Luther McCoy, Gretchen Parlato, Chris Potter, David Sanchez, Kendrick Scott, Edward Simon, and Warren Wolf—and Skylar Tang, a 16-year-old trumpeter and a member of the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars. (Performers subject to change.)
NEA Chair Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and Founder and Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ Randall Kline will provide remarks.
Ticket details:
Starting on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. PT, up to two tickets per household may be reserved for the free concert online, at the SFJAZZ Center Box Office (201 Franklin St., San Francisco, CA), or by phone (415-788-7353).
Live webcast and radio broadcast details:
The live webcast of the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert will begin on March 31 at 9:30 p.m. CT/10:30 p.m. ET at arts.gov and sfjazz.org and on Facebook. An archive of the webcast available following the event at arts.gov.
For more information go to https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2022/2022-nea-jazz-masters-celebrated-march-31-tribute-concert
