The JJA has multiple outlets, platforms, and social media accounts. Links and information on each of these is contained in…
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Has summer been too short? Labor Day can be celebrated at jazz fests across the country — in Chicago, Detroit…
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Announcing The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association, a unique anthology being published in ebook and print-on-demand paperback and hardcover editions on October 15 by Cymbal Press. For the first time ever, the JJA has merch! Vivid Jazz Omnibus t-shirts (Tangible Sound cover photo of Roscoe Mitchell by Lauren Deutsch) are as low as $16. Phone cases, tote bags, stickers, mugs, hats, etc… are also available at a 35% sale at TeePublic. A team effort featuring 90 contributors, compiled by editor David Adler, photography…
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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, musicians and all members of the international community of jazz. Morgenstern is especially noted for stewardship of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, for his books Jazz People and Living with Jazz, for most productively editing DownBeat from 1967-73, for his many personal friendships with the earliest and greatest of jazz musicians, and for enormous, unquantifiable behind-the-scenes support for personal and…
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Isn’t now — early autumn — when the new year begins? Semester…
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Summer ends with jazz fests galore. We aggregate JJA members’ posts, adding…
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Jazz Journalist Association member José Dos Santos, the JJA’s only member in…
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I remember my first visit to the United States well. The year…
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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.
Jazz Journalists Association Sponsors
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.
