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JJA Members spread their wings to share good news from around the world. Festival Field Reports continue cycling on JJA…
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Northsea Jazz Festival @50 – July 10 – 12 by Danica Pantovic, © photos What: The 50th edition of NN North Sea Jazz Festival anchored in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the largest European port, for the 20th time. Scope: 1.300 artists, approximately 30.000 daily audience, 17 stages, 150 performances, some 200 hours of music, or ten times more than one can hear from 10th till 12th July. The third festival director Irene Peters aimed “to offer complete, panoramic overview of jazz and related art forms.” It definitely was, as usual, an extensive…
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Chamber Music America, the non-profit organization supporting music of and by small ensembles across genre, has announced that Howard Mandel, JJA President Emeritus, is recipient of its 2026 Award for Arts Advocacy. Mandel and other honorees will receive their honors at a luncheon at the Drake hotel on Aug. 21 during the CMA National Conference, and he will participate in panels comprising a by-invitation Jazz Summit at the offices of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, on August 20, culminating in a performance by Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble at Constellation,…
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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.
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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…
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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.
