The JJA has multiple outlets, platforms, and social media accounts. Links and information on each of these is contained in…
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No need to have the blues for summer’s end since the music is non-stop as proved by the ever-increasing number…
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Russia’s Ural Jazz Festival Marks a Quarter Century On the last Saturday of August, the pedestrian stretch of Kirov Street in Chelyabinsk — an industrial city in the southern Ural Mountains, roughly 1,000 miles east of Moscow — fills with trumpets, trombones, drums, percussion and a crowd that clearly doesn’t mind the noise. Local jazz bands lead a parade past a monument to Soviet-era tank volunteers, with dozens of photographers in tow, and hundreds of local residents falling in step behind them. By evening, the same street hosts an open-air…
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The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) and the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) have announced a new five-year partnership to create the Arnold Jay Smith Jazz Journalism Seminars, an intergenerational professional development program. The seminars honor the memory of Arnold Jay Smith (1934–2022), the Brooklyn-based jazz writer, publicist and educator who was both a co-founder of the Jazz Journalists Association and a benefactor of the Jazz Foundation of America. Funded through a bequest by Smith’s estate, the JFA will provide the JJA with $25,000 annually for five years, a total commitment…
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Click on links for front-row video excerpts — text adapted from Chicagao…
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The second edition of Mil Estones de Jazz Festival took place in Beneixama, a…
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The legacy of the Newport Jazz Festival is uncontested. As the oldest…
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Text and photos by Sharonne Cohen, © 2026 Before the 46th Edition…
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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.
