There’s a tendency, when writing about jazz, to fixate on the stage. But the stage is only one part of the system.…
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Standard-bearers and avant-gardists, up-and-comers and a fresh generation of jazz recordings by composers, arrangers and soloists — as well as journalists and…
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As jazz — the music, business and culture of it — depends on an intricate and widespread network of activists, altruists and…
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The JJA is continuing to offer The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association, the unique…
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Detroit journalist Mark Stryker’s Jazz from Detroit was the 2020 Jazz Journalists Association’s Book of the Year, and now a documentary based…
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Biographies of trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Kenny Wheeler and Cootie Williams, saxophonist Don Byas, Beat poet Ted Joans and drummer Gene Krupa; two…
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With the decision to spend the winter in Copenhagen in the middle of a geopolitical crisis between the US and the EU,…
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On Monday, April 20, 2026 at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, the Seattle jazz community tips its hat to 2014 JJA Jazz Hero Jim…
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It is widely accepted that jazz has historically been a male-dominated genre and continues to be so today. But one particular medium…
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The Jazz Journalists Association will host a Media Meetup on April 29, 2026, especially welcoming writers, broadcasters and photographers visiting Chicago to…
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CAROL SUDHALTER, text and photos I often travel to Italy to perform, most often in Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Rome and Puglia, and always…
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My friend Lee Hildebrand died in January 2025 at the age of 78. I have some words of remembrance. Born and raised…
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