The National Endowment For The Arts has announced the 2010 Jazz Masters Fellowship recipients.  They include Bobby Hutcherson (pictured above), Cedar Walton and Yusef Lateef.

From their website:

“The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowships are the highest honors that our government bestows upon jazz musicians. These fellowships are given in recognition that this magnificent art form, so profoundly based in American culture, is one of America’s greatest gifts to the world.”

All the recipients can be seen here.