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/ The 2021 NEA Jazz Masters class: Terri Lyne Carrington, Albert Tootie Heath, Henry Threadgill and Phil Schaap
The 2021 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert honoring Albert “Tootie” Heath, Henry Threadgill, Terri Lyne Carrington and Phil Schaap will take place on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 8 p.m. EDT.
Presented by the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with SFJAZZ, this virtual event will feature prerecorded performances and tributes by an array of prominent jazz artists. The event s hosts are Dee Dee Bridgewater, 2017 NEA Jazz Master, and Delroy Lindo, an actor critically acclaimed for his role in
Da 5 Bloods.
Carrington served as musical director of the 2020 NEA Jazz Masters ceremony and concert, but as an inductee this year she is naturally free of that responsibility; it falls instead to alto saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón, a longtime member of the SFJAZZ Collective. The concert will be available to watch online, at WBGO and elsewhere, fre
Joshua Kosman March 16, 2021Updated: March 25, 2021, 11:41 am
Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington will be honored as a 2021 NEA Jazz Master on April 22 in a virtual ceremony. Photo: Tracy Love
Four giants of contemporary jazz drummers Terri Lyne Carrington and Albert “Tootie” Heath, composer and saxophonist Henry Threadgill, and historian Phil Schaap will be honored as part of the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Tribute Concert, scheduled to be presented online by SFJazz and the NEA next month.
The free webcast is slated to be presented at 5 p.m. April 22, via the SFJazz website at www.sfjazz.org. The virtual event will be hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater, herself a 2017 winner of the award, and “Da 5 Bloods” actor Delroy Lindo, an Oakland resident.