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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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 historic music district Before Seattle became internationally associated with any genre of music, South Jackson Street had already established the city as an important jazz town. From the late 1930s into the early 1950s, clubs stretched along a multiracial corridor connecting what are now the Chinatown-International District and and Central District, neighborhoods shaped in part by the racial restrictions that limited where Black and Asian residents could live and do business. The after-hours scene nurtured musicians including Ernestine Anderson…
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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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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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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.
