The JJA has multiple outlets, platforms, and social media accounts. Links and information on each of these is contained in…
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Ask the birds, the trees, and Old Father Time, JJA member activities continue to climb! A new record of members’…
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The JJA has scheduled a Zoom launch party and information session about the inaugural season of JJA’s Arnold Jay Smith Intergenerational Professional Development Fellowships featuring several of the well-know jazz media activists who will lead seminars for a select coterie of emerging journalists in spring 2027. The session is free (as will be the seminars); registration is required. On Saturday, October 24, at 2 pm Eastern Time, lthe nine-session AJS Seminars — to be held every other week from January 16 through April 24 — and how to apply to…
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The website for the 37th Sun Valley Jazz and Festival describes the annual event in the Idaho Rockies as a vibrant celebration of music. It boasts, not immodestly, “Over the years, the Festival has been a dynamic and intimate gathering where music lovers and artists alike come together to celebrate the joy of jazz while continuing a cherished tradition that has thrived for over three decades in a world-class resort area.” Sun Valley itself is a small community — 2020 census figures report under 2000 people live there — near…
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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.
