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Work permits, visas, bureaucracy, money, and transport issues, labels, distribution, accessibility to foreign jazz magazines, streaming platforms, booking agencies, media pitches, getting coverage, reaching out to a vast audience — to youngsters — inclusion, collaboration, economic imbalance, gender balance, sustainability … That’s a long list of challenges, but confronted with “an impulse to change,” as publicist-blogger Matt Merewitz put it, among those in today’s European and U.S. jazz industry. There’s said tor be a desire among musicians and audiences to get to know each other better. Artists and publicists attending jazzahead!, the annual international…
MoreThere’s a tendency, when writing about jazz, to fixate on the stage. But the stage is only one part of the system. Consider, too, the audience — their movement, their sense of urgency. If you’re paying attention, sometimes a city reveals how it actually listens. On February 24, Jazz Night in Pioneer Square, Seattle did just that. A free, multi-venue event presented by Seattle Jazz Fellowship in partnership with the Alliance for Pioneer Square activated fifteen venues across the neighborhood from 5:30 to 10 p.m., drawing a crowd in the…
MoreStandard-bearers and avant-gardists, up-and-comers and a fresh generation of jazz recordings by…
MoreAs jazz — the music, business and culture of it — depends…
MoreThe JJA is continuing to offer The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and…
MoreDetroit journalist Mark Stryker’s Jazz from Detroit was the 2020 Jazz Journalists…
MoreWHAT WE DO

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…
MoreThe 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.