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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Montreux Jazz Festival – Montreux, Switzerland, July 3 – 18 Charles Lloyd receives Flutist of the Year Award at his Montreux festival performance from JJA’s Rebecca Klobucher Syracuse Jazz Festival – Syracuse, NY, July 10 -11 by Monk Rowe I lucked out this summer, earning a performing spot at both Rochester and Syracuse jazz festivals. As a former educator (it never leaves you) the tried and true “compare and contrast” exercise was inevitable. The Rochester fest, nine days this summer, was launched in 2002; the three-day Syracuse fest celebrated its…
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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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by Harris Meyer While he was far better known in jazz circles…
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Work permits, visas, bureaucracy, money, and transport issues, labels, distribution, accessibility to…
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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.
