The JJA has multiple outlets, platforms, and social media accounts. Links and information on each of these is contained in…
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The 250th anniversary celebration of the U.S. birth this July will resound with jazz, and not only in the USA.…
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Chicago Blues Festival – June 6, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL by Howard Mandel Third day of all free-to-attend Chicago Blues Festival — a celebration of music this city considers its own — and I missed all afternoon programming to concentrate on harmonica man Billy Branch‘s headlining set, celebrating his 75th birthday with a full review of his current album The Blues Is My Biography. He fronted his regular guys — Giles Corey, guitars; Sumito Arioshi, keyboards; plus rhythm, horn section, backup-singers, youth choir singing his protest anthem “Begging For Change,”…
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My website Jazz en Dominicana was born on October 23, 2006. It was originally a blog, intended to inform about the jazz that was presented in the Dominican Republic by local and international musicians, as well as about what Dominican jazz musicians were doing on other beaches, globally. To date, it has posted nearly 2,800 pieces: concerts and festival reviews, articles, interviews, biographies, photographs and more. Before the website completed its first year, in September 2007, the first live jazz venue for weekly performances in DR was born – Jazz Dominicana at Casa de…
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More than a decade ago, I took part in the Jazz in…
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The Jazz Journalists Association has announced winners in the 49 categories of…
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Work permits, visas, bureaucracy, money, and transport issues, labels, distribution, accessibility to…
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There’s a tendency, when writing about jazz, to fixate on the stage.…
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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.
