The NEA Jazz Masters award is one of the highest honors presented by the US government to jazz musicians. A group of NEA Jazz Masters posed together in Toronto during the recent International Association for Jazz Education conference.

Top row, left: NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, Gunther Schuller (2008), Dan Morgenstern, Paquito D'Rivera, David Baker. Lower row, left: John Levy, Tom McIntosh (2008), Nancy Wilson, Joe Wilder (2008), Quincy Jones (2008), Roy Haynes, Frank Foster, Jon Hendricks, Candido Camero (2008), NEA Director of Music and Opera Wayne Brown.

Photo © Tom Pich.