2024 Jazz Heroes

JJA proudly hails drummer Quentin Baxter and trumpeter Charlton Singleton, the core of the Grammy Award-winning quintet Ranky Tanky.

Washington, D.C. native and jazz radio host Katea Stitt is the proud daughter of master jazz saxophonist and legend Sonny...

Since the 1970s Marla Gibbs has been a force participating in and supporting the varied arts in Los Angeles’s African-American...

Eugene Uman and Elsa Borrero have worked tirelessly to build the Vermont Jazz Center’s community straddling the Vermont/New Hampshire border.

John came to Charlottesville in 1981 from New York City where his band Cosmology had cut an eponymously titled record...

Writer, broadcaster and performer Lynn Darroch has been at the center of the Portland jazz community for more than 40...

Ann Tappan has served as a faculty member of the Montana Jazz Piano Workshop and as artist-in-residence at Yellowstone National...

Chris Anderson is the founder of Open Tone Music, an Akron-based nonprofit that has provided access to free music education...

Historian and educator David Leander Williams has done more than anyone to amplify the proud heritage of Indianapolis' Indiana Avenue.

Thomas Marriott founded and implemented the Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the local jazz community.