Jazz Appreciation Month members’ updates! Willard Jenkins, Jazz Master!
JJA members love jazz all year long — but April is the hippest month, and 2024 is special, as Willard Jenkins, a JJA founder, has been named a Jazz Master!!!, getting the A.B. Spellman Award for jazz...
View ArticleJJA Awards season starts — Jazz Heroes on 4/15!
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced the schedule for its spring 2024 Jazz Heroes and Jazz Awards campaigns. Thirty-three “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz” in 29...
View Article2024 JJA Jazz Heroes: 33 stalwart supporters, all across North America
The Jazz Journalists Association proudly announces its slate of 2024 Jazz Heroes, people who go beyond their job titles to have have significant impact in their local communities by supporting jazz...
View ArticleMichael Cuscuna, 1948 – 2024
Michael Cuscuna, known best as a record producer associated with Blue Note Records and co-founder of Mosaic Records, has died. A sophisticated man, devoted to creating new works by a wide range of...
View Article2024 Jazz Awards Nominees Announced! See them all at www.JJAJazzAwards.org!!!
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View ArticleDuke, Pops, Basie suffered slings, slurs: critics flip-flopped, icons defied...
Insults couldn’t pierce the thick skin of musicians like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong or Count Basie, long accustomed to bigoted slurs and crude critique. But when reviewers blithely demeaned them...
View ArticleWinners of 2024 JJA Jazz Awards announced: DeJohnette, McBride, Redman,...
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced winners of its 29th annual JJA Jazz Awards for excellence in music and music journalism. Among top tier honors in the more than 40 categories of Awards...
View ArticleMay Members Updates
Jazz Journalists Association members love April as Jazz Appreciation Month culminating in International Jazz Day. We hail newly inducted NEA Jazz Masters, laud and present 2024 Jazz Heroes, nominate...
View ArticleInt’l Jazz Day and 17th annual JAM in Montenegro
Each new descent into Montenegro brings me emotional fulfillments similar to those generated by great music. That makes the exhausting journey with my own car worth it: two days (with a one-night...
View ArticleRussian jazz, Chelyabinsk to Denton
I remember my first visit to the United States well. The year was 2018. My colleagues and I had just returned from the funeral of trumpeter Igor Bourco, one of the most important Russian jazz...
View ArticleJune Members Updates – lazy summer edition
We”re pretty sure it’s the heat suppressing the number of updates JJA members have sent in — because we’re as busy as ever, presenting Jazz Awards to Heroes, musicians and media-makers widely as well...
View ArticleMembers updates — July jazz & media
So much music in the air motivates artists, writers, photographers, broadcasters, media experimenters overall to lean into what we’re doing, to reach out further, to share the sounds of simmering...
View ArticleOur man in Havana: José Dos Santos, RIP
Jazz Journalist Association member José Dos Santos, the JJA’s only member in Cuba, died in Havana on July 22, 2024 at the age of 77. He had been in poor health for many years but continued to be a key...
View ArticleAugust Members’ updates: Jazz that is. . .
Has summer been too short? Labor Day can be celebrated at jazz fests across the country — in Chicago, Detroit and D.C., for instance, culminating the year’s first flush of music, clearing the air for...
View ArticleJazz fests season: Advances, news, reviews
Summer ends with jazz fests galore. We aggregate JJA members’ posts, adding more as links roll in! September’s 67th Monterey Jazz Festival Showcases Historic Roots and New Leadership By Kitty...
View ArticleDan Morgenstern, 1929-2024 – Revered journalist, scholar, devotee, role model
The JJA celebrates the life and works of Dan Morgenstern, whose love and comprehension of jazz resulted in decades of documentation, commentary and standards-setting for journalists, scholars,...
View ArticleIt’s here! The Jazz Omnibus – 21st-Century photos and writings by JJA members!
Announcing The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association, a unique anthology to be published in ebook and print-on-demand paperback and hardcover...
View ArticleMembers updates, September
Isn’t now — early autumn — when the new year begins? Semester starts, harvest time, holidays ahead . . .and a new arts season, with performance series, record releases, major projects mounted? JJA...
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