Ira Gitler, whose career over a stretch of seven decades encompassed virtually all the possibilities of working with and for jazz, died…
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In January 2018, the JJA produced a day-long media summit at the Jazz Gallery. The first session featured writers Jordannah Elizabeth, Michelle…
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An extensive list of hundreds of international esteemed jazz, blues and “creative music” instrumentalists, singers and adherents of those arts who died in 2018.…
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The jazz world lost a tireless champion with the passing on December 26, 2018 of Yvonne Ervin, a festival producer, writer, fund-raiser,…
MoreMusicians and journalists will talk about “Chicago’s greatest hits” in a series produced of listening sessions starting January 24 and being held…
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W. Royal Stokes, JJA Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism honoree and past editor of Jazz Notes (among many other credits) has compiled…
MoreRon Sweetman (1932-2018) bought his first Duke Ellington records in his native England when he was 14, using money earned by digging neighbors’…
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Marcia Hillman, a veteran jazz journalist and lyricist died in April. Following a period of declining health, she had been in assisted…
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The 40 sponsors of the Jazz Journalists Association’s 2018 Jazz Awards and Jazz Heroes initiatives signed up from across the breadth of the…
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Winners of the Jazz Journalists Association’s 2018 Jazz Awards, the 22rd annual honors for excellence in music and music journalism conferred by…
MoreApril 24, New York City — Nominees for the 2018 Jazz Awards, the 23rdannual honors produced by the Jazz Journalists Association, were…
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