I just wanted to personally thank you for creating and organizing this great event. It was a testament to the music and…
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The JJA Jazz Awards were held on the same day and time as ASCAP’s 2010 Jazz Wall of Fame event. Whose announcement…
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Scottsdale is home to the JJA’s youngest member, Mikayla Gilbreath, who gathered on June 14th with some of the local scene’s leading…
MorePhotograher Enid Farber, recovering from dislocated shoulders, shot her imagery at the Jazz Awards with help from an assistant — but as…
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from left: Art Lange (first president of the Jazz Journalists Association); JJA Jazz Heroes Joe Segal and Geraldine de Haas; Neil Tesser, MC of…
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Here is the rundown from yesterday. And be sure to read JJA President Howard Mandel on the “why” of the Awards (from…
MoreThe Jazz Educators Network (JEN) Conference, held May 20-22 in St. Louis, has come and gone but the two-week “postgame” window now…
MoreThe Jazz Journalists Association has named eight new members to its “A Team” of “Activists, Advocates, Altruists, Aiders and Abettors of Jazz,” along…
MoreBack in the 1980s, the Warsaw-based International Jazz Federation held an annual competition, Jazz Photo International, featuring submissions in an exhibition at…
MoreIt’s been just over a year that I have semi-officially considered myself a jazz writer. It started with this post, which began…
MoreSwing Journal, the magazine promoting American jazz in Japan since the end of WWII, ceases publication with its June issue. According to…
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For the past 38 years, Jack Kleinsinger was impresario and host of “Highlights In Jazz,” a moveable fete of jazz luminaries presented…
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