2022 Jazz Heroes

A native of East St. Louis, Illinois, Anthony Wiggins began playing cornet in the fourth grade at a district with...

Starting from age seven, Rita Rega has loved, broadcast, written about and advocated for the music she calls “life affirming.”

Dave Finucane, in partnership with his wife Valerie Courreges has established the community-oriented Durham Jazz Workshop/Sharp 9 Gallery.

When Craig Harris exploded onto the jazz scene of New York City in 1976 he brought the entire history of the jazz...

Louis Valenzuela has distinguished himself as a guitarist who can deftly perform an array of jazz styles, as well as...

Amanda Ekery works tirelessly on her craft, but beyond her own music brings people together by amplifying their personal voices.

Alina Bloomgarden’s stewardship of Jazz at Lincoln Center deems her a Jazz Hero, but she developed other projects, including Reel...

Harold McMillan has presented jazz and blues music in a city that too often relegates historically Black music to the...

Dave Finucane, in partnership with his wife Valerie Courreges has established the community-oriented Durham Jazz Workshop/Sharp 9 Gallery.

Allen Lowe -- saxophonist, critic, educator -- is proficient at mining possibilities from the musically exotic, eccentric and arcane.