Jazz Appreciation Month members’ updates! Willard Jenkins, Jazz Master!

JJA members love jazz all year long — but April is the hippest month, and 2024 is special, as Willard Jenkins, a JJA founder, has been named a Jazz Master!!!, getting the A.B. Spellman Award for jazz advocacy, from the National Endowment for the Arts! Big time congratulations to Willard! He’s done even more than birth the JJA. Heear his NEA-produced podcast, and watch Willard’s investiture (along with fellow new honorees Amina Claudine Myers, Gary Bartz and Terence Blanchard) and the gala NEA’s tribute concert on April 14, 7:30 pm ET, on www.JJAJazzAwards.org! Also see the full display, portraits and