Presidential Medal of Freedom
Jazz musicians who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom: list of 9 recipients by year.
Recipients
| 2015 | Barbra Streisand American singer and actress (born 1942) |
| 2013 | Arturo Sandoval Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer |
| 2005 | Alan Greenspan American economist and financial advisor (1926–2026) |
| 1992 | Ella Fitzgerald American jazz singer (1917–1996) |
| 1985 | Frank Sinatra American singer and actor (1915–1998) |
| 1985 | Count Basie American jazz musician and composer (1904–1984) |
| 1981 | Eubie Blake American jazz pianist (1887–1983) |
| 1969 | Duke Ellington American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974) |
| 1964 | Aaron Copland American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor… |