Happy Jazz Day! Nominations for the 2012 JJA Jazz Awards are out and the JJA Blogathon has begun profiling jazz in communities…
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Starting on Jazz Day, April 13, the JJA will bring bloggers and other jazz mediamakers together to raise the profile of jazz…
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The JJA has launched its 16th annual Jazz Awards initiative and set Wednesday, June 20 as the date for a New York…
MoreThe JJA has applied for a Knight News Challenge Grant to expand and strengthen the network that ties together jazz creators, presenters…
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Jo Ann Kawell, a fervent contributor to many JJA projects over the past five years, has formally accepted the job of Online…
MoreSelected news from other sources about jazz journalism, jazz in our communities and the business of jazz.…
MoreAccording to partial, “first look” results of the Future of Music Coaltion’s Money from Music Survey, independent jazz musicians on average made…
MoreKatie Malloch, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s devoted voice of jazz, is retiring after four decades of support for a scene that’s grown…
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The JJA currently seeks to fill two paid positions: editor of JJANews and online administration of the JJA. Both are part-time jobs…
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Arnold Jay Smith blogs about the late John Levy, 1913 – 2012 — bassist, manager to jazz greats, NEA Jazz Master.…
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High school students from the Germantown Central School District on New York State (about 20 miles northeast of Woodstock) had a go at…
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These jazz, blues and otherwise musical artists, journalists, industry leaders, educators and related personages died in 2011 — compiled by W. Royal…
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