The JJA has multiple outlets, platforms, and social media accounts. Links and information on each of these is contained in…
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It’s here: Second quarter of the 21st Century! Hello, jazz — whatcha got for us now? Read news and views…
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Written in reaction to the publication of the 19th annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll, administered by Tom Hull. Alternate views: Francis’ essay, and Tom’s. Also: Hull’s list of Notables We Lost in 2024. I hate lists. This sentiment is wildly unpopular among my colleagues, especially at the end of the year when we’re supposed to be busy proclaiming ten best. For readers, I suspect such a confession casts me as, at the least, contrarian. Here are my reasons: This year, I noticed the changing flora and fauna of our…
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A new Romanian film documents the man behind invaluable, Quixotic Leo Records, and reunited the author with Leo Feigin after 30 years. In 2019 Ioana Grigore, a student at Bucharest’s Theatre and Film University, made her debut with a one-hour film titled Creativ. It was a documentary about the eponymous band, which had established itself as the main landmark of Romania’s jazz avant-garde during the terminal decade of the country’s post-war totalitarian regime. Persevering for five years in the direction initiated by Creativ, Grigore has just premiered her second cinematographic-musical project. Entitled Leo…
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The ghost of George Wein dropped by and mingled with jazzmen of…
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Vilma Dobilaitė Visionary trumpeter Theo Croker, grandson of the legendary trumpet master…
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I found myself in London, England after many years of desiring a…
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After brief hiatus, the JJA’s premiere original programs have resumed production. “Seeing…
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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.
