The JJA has multiple outlets, platforms, and social media accounts. Links and information on each of these is contained in…
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The good jazz news keeps comin’… since January, February, June and July! See the recently gathered Fest Report from Romania…
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Pushing Pins: Like it or not, early exposure sticks — red Mary Janes and all At Earshot Jazz’s annual festival kickoff on October 1, Eugenie Jones stood inside the University of Washington’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery accepting the John Gilbreath Service Excellence Award for her work keeping jazz alive. She thanked the people whose lives inevitably become entangled in such undertakings: the sleepless nights, missed workouts, marketing, friends and family who absorb the labor surrounding a jazz festival whether or not their names ever appear on a program. Then she thanked…
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The JJA’s Zoom launch party and information session about the inaugural season of JJA’s Arnold Jay Smith Intergenerational Professional Development Fellowships on Oct. 24 drew some 40 veteran and emerging jazz journalists to learn about the spring 2027 series of discussions to be led by well-know media activists for a select coterie of emerging professionals. Highlight of the Zoom launch was opening of the AJS Jazz Journalism Seminars application. Here’s a comprehensive description of the seminar/fellowship program. As introduced by JJA board member Terri Hinte, moderated by Neil Tesser and…
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Awards
The annual Jazz Journalists Awards, established in 1996 and conferred by vote of JJA professional members, celebrate accomplishments in music and music media
Events
Educational webinars, panel discussions, members’ meetups and professional symposia, held across the U.S. or online for international access.
Heroes
“Activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz” – members of jazz’s ‘A Team’– are recognized by the JJA and in their communities throughout the U.S.
Podcast
Insights and interviews from JJA members on new music, publications and films about jazz, and on the the state of jazz journalism and evolving mediums.
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VIDEOS
Freshly posted: Archival video of the JJA Photography Master Class, with Lauren Deutsch, whose innovative experiments in fine arts photography and journalistic…
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The JJA’s Youtube published video of the 2015 Jazz Awards party in New…
JJA Resources
Photojournalism
SEEING JAZZ is a monthly live master class series led by past JJA Photographer of the Year award winners and other professional photo journalists
Videojournalism
eyeJAZZ is a series of webinars used created out of a JJA's Video Training Program for short, news, jazz videos made with simple tools and distributed online
Webinars
TALKING JAZZ webinars feature jazz world leaders and experts discussing the issues that are shaping the way we perform, program, promote –and fund– jazz now and in the future.
Promotion
Resources for producing and promoting events for International Jazz Appreciation Month (aka: April) and beyond.
