2022 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert

On March 31, 2022, the National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with SFJAZZ, honored the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters—Stanley Clarke, Donald Harrison, Jr., Billy Hart, and Cassandra Wilson—with a free concert held at SFJAZZ Center’s Robert N. Miner Auditorium in San Francisco. The concert was also made available through online and radio broadcast. The evening kicked off a year-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the NEA Jazz Masters program. NEA Chair Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and Founder and Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ Randall Kline provided introductory remarks. The concert featured performances by three of the 2022 honorees, Stanley Clarke, Billy Hart, and Donald Harrison, Jr. Additional performers included Jeremiah Collier, Joe Dyson, Ethan Iverson, Dan Kaufman, Salar Nader, Noriatsu Naraoka, Ruslan Sirota, Ben Street, and Mark Turner, as well as the SFJAZZ Collective—Matt Brewer, Etienne Charles, Martin Luther McCoy, Gretchen Parlato, Chris Potter, David Sanchez, Kendrick Scott, Edward Simon, and Warren Wolf—and Skylar Tang, a 16-year-old trumpeter and a member of the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars. For more on the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships go to: https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz