MacArthur Fellows Program
Jazz musicians who received the MacArthur Fellows Program: list of 21 recipients by year.
Recipients
| 2025 | Craig Taborn American musician |
| 2022 | Ikue Mori drummer, electronic musician and composer |
| 2020 | Cécile McLorin Salvant American jazz singer of French and Haitian roots |
| 2019 | Mary Halvorson US avant-garde jazz guitarist |
| 2013 | Vijay Iyer American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, and writer |
| 2010 | Jason Moran American jazz pianist, composer, educator (born 1975) |
| 2008 | Miguel Zenón Puerto Rican alto saxophonist |
| 2006 | John Zorn American composer, saxophonist and bandleader |
| 2002 | George Lewis American composer, performer, and music scholar |
| 1994 | Ornette Coleman American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer… |
| 1994 | Anthony Braxton American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945) |
| 1992 | Steve Lacy American jazz musician (1934–2004) |
| 1991 | Cecil Taylor American jazz pianist and poet (1929–2018) |
| 1989 | George Russell American pianist and composer (1923–2009) |
| 1988 | Max Roach American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer (1924–2007) |
| 1988 | Ran Blake American musician |
| — | Gunther Schuller American composer and conductor (1925–2015) |
| — | Regina Carter American jazz violinist |
| — | Steve Coleman American saxophonist |
| — | Ken Vandermark American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist |
| — | Steven Feld ethnomusicologist |