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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Niš is the third largest city in Serbia (after Belgrade and Novi Sad). At the end of the 3rd century AD, Constantine the Great, founder of the Byzantine metropolis Constantinople, was born here. Currently, one of the main cultural attractions of the city is the Nišville Jazz Festival (a name that alludes to USA’s Nashville). It boasts of having the largest attendance of any festival in Europe. In 2026 it claimed to have some 200,000 visitors. This mega-event reached now the 32nd edition. Its general director, Ivan Blagoevic, is committed…
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As we all were celebrating yet another remarkable edition of Chicago Jazz Festival, continuing a tradition since 1979, I found myself looking at the event through the lens of alternate timelines, putting time in perspective and zooming in and out on the journey this thing called jazz continues taking us on. What was that first Chicago Jazz Festival like? An Ellington Night, a Coltrane Night, and five more programs assisting a week-long celebration of music at Grant Park. Today, 47 festival editions later, the program in Millennium Park looks ironically…
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Jackson Street Jazz Festival, September 12-13, 2026 — Today’s players in the…
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The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) and the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA)…
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Russia’s Ural Jazz Festival Marks a Quarter Century On the last Saturday…
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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.
