Quincy Jones among honorees

Music impresario Quincy Jones was among six musicians named as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for 2008.

The 2008 Jazz Masters were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony hosted by NEA Chairman Dana Gioia at the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue named after trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who was among the first group of Jazz Masters in 1982.

Other winners of the award, which carries a $25,000 fellowship and is considered the nation’s highest jazz honor, were rhythm instrumentalist Candido Camero, composer-arranger Tom McIntosh, trumpeter Joe Wilder, composer-conductor-jazz historian Gunther Schuller and pianist-composer Andrew Hill, who died in April.