Carmen Lundy is named 2026 NEA Jazz Master
Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters Fellowship is the highest award bestowed by our nation on jazz musicians and advocates. On November 21, 2025, the NEA announced the newest recipients of this honor: Carmen Lundy, Airto Moreira, Patrice Rushen, and A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy recipient Rhonda […]
Carmen Lundy is Named Recipient of the 2025 Jazz Legacies Fellowship
JazzTimes once proclaimed that “musicians as diversely gifted as Carmen Lundy, who has excelled as a vocalist, composer, lyricist, arranger and pianist for more than three decades, remain far and few between.” Having composed and published more than 150 original songs, with 16 albums as a bandleader, she has not only been a consummate interpreter […]
Coming Up – Carmen Lundy at We Out Here Festival
Carmen will be performing on August 13 at 3:40pm at the We Out Here festival in Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, UK.
Carmen featured in Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival Review
Excerpted from Inaugural Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival Dazzles L.A. Music Revelers By A. Scott Galloway – Photos: Matthew Imaging June 30, 2022 Earlier, singer/songwriter Carmen Lundy made her debut as a leader at The Hollywood Bowl (she’d sung at ‘Playboy’ a few years back as a guest of Terri Lyne Carrington’s “Mosaic Project”). Carmen brought […]
Nothing But The Blood wins “Best Music Documentary” at DTLA Film Festival 2022
Carmen Lundy’s new documentary wins award at DTLA Film Festival
Hyundai Ad Features Carmen Lundy
In the last frame of this fun ad from Hyundai, a marquee shows a sold out show featuring Carmen Lundy: Watch the full ad here
Carmen on The Wave with Pat Prescott
Listen to Carmen in conversation with Pat Prescott on The Wave.
The New Yorker: Goings On About Town
Although Carmen Lundy was right on the cusp of the jazz-vocal renaissance of the early nineties, fame somehow eluded the versatile singer. A model of persistence, Lundy has soldiered on with ever greater self-possesion; her recordings, including the recent “Modern Ancestors,” resound with musical assurance–she composes much of her material–and outspoken political fervor. – Steve […]
JazzIz: Modern Ancestors Review
Carmen Lundy featured on JAZZIZ Backstage Pass: 10 Albums You Need To Know for October 2019 JAZZIZ Backstage Pass Listen to Podcast