The JJA has multiple outlets, platforms, and social media accounts. Links and information on each of these is contained in…
More
As jazz — the music, business and culture of it — depends on an intricate and widespread network of activists, altruists and advocates to thrive, today the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) celebrates 35 grassroots culture workers of 33 locales — including, for the first time, London — as 2026 Jazz Heroes. The Jazz Heroes announcement launches the JJA’s 31st annual Jazz Awards season during Jazz Appreciation Month, climaxing on International Jazz Day (April 30) — being hosted in Chicago this year — with local follow-up presentations nationwide. See Jazz Heroes…
More
Detroit journalist Mark Stryker’s Jazz from Detroit was the 2020 Jazz Journalists Association’s Book of the Year, and now a documentary based upon his work, The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit, is streaming on Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play and Tubi. In a recent phone interview Stryker reflected on the documentary’s path to development, the under appreciated contribution of Detroit’s jazz to Motown, and the city’s robust mentoring culture which has produced so many jazz luminaries. Leslie Lynnton-Fuller: How long has this film been in development? Mark…
More
The JJA is continuing to offer The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and…
More
The Jazz Journalists Association will host a Media Meetup on April 29,…
More
Biographies of trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Kenny Wheeler and Cootie Williams, saxophonist Don…
More
With the decision to spend the winter in Copenhagen in the middle…
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.
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…
More
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.
