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For more information, read our <a href="/honors/jazz/brief-history-nea-jazz-masters-fellowships">brief history of the program</a>.</p><p>The NEA will honor the 2025 NEA Jazz Masters—<strong>Marshall Allen</strong>, <strong>Marilyn Crispell</strong>, <strong>Chucho Valdés</strong>, and recipient of the 2025 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy <strong>Gary Giddins</strong>—on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at a free concert in Washington, DC, held in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. More information on this concert and other related events will be available in early 2025.</p> <figure class="captioned-image"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/2025_jm_collage-horizontal.png?itok=tIf3kUjR" width="800" height="450" alt="Photos of the 2025 Jazz Masters arranged in a collage with purple, red, blue, and yellow rectangles around the photos. 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