Members of the JJA’s Book Awards committee penned these descriptions of the Book of the Year Honorable Mentions by Anthony Elmes, Celeste…
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The Jazz Journalists Association launches its 28th annual Jazz Awards season with an announcement of eight nominees and 10 Honorable Mentions in…
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The JJA’s second season of online webinars begins Tuesday, February 19, at 8 pm EST, with writer Geoffrey Himes, a winner of the…
MoreCompiled by W. Royal Stokes and Ken Franckling Listed in chronological order of their deaths, earliest first. Sources include periodicals, personal communication…
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In my last 30 years as an active freelance journalist in Denmark, I narrated some 500 commercial and documentary films in English.…
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In the wake of the JJA Jazz Awards, both DownBeat and Jazz Inside magazine announced winners of their own polls of contributors,…
MorePlease note: JJANews has installed a new aggregated column:  Jazz World News. This feature is being moderated  JJANews editors, who will post…
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Trumpeter Nicholas Payton calls what he does BAM, for black American music, avering that negative connotations of the “j-word” does the music…
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JazzTimes magazine and the Jazz Journalists Association have both scheduled mini-conferences for jazz industries professionals — musicians, presenters and media creators included…
MoreThe Jazzinstitute of the City of Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany, is holding a weeklong interactive forum on jazz criticism at www.jazzkritik.de, and the…
MoreHighlights of the JJA Jazz Awards are captured as a short form eyeJAZZ video by Lindalee Lawrence, an eyeJAZZ trainee. She shows…
MoreeyeJAZZ video by R.J. DeLuke…
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