Here is the rundown from yesterday. And be sure to read JJA President Howard Mandel on the “why” of the Awards (from…
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The 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…
MoreMay 13, 2010, New York — “You should be ashamed of yourselves,” producers of the Jazz Icons DVD series scolded the Jazz…
MoreWednesday, May 12 — Boston: The Tanglewood Jazz Festival (Sept. 4-5, 2010, in Lenox MA) has announced it will award four performance…
MoreThis article originally appeared in the Post Mortem blog published by The Washington Post. It is reproduced with the permission of JJA…
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America’s best high school jazz bands are directed by JJA “A Team” honorees, according to Jazz At Lincoln Center, announcing winners of…
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Dear JJA colleagues, After many years of producing Jazz Notes, the quarterly publication of the Jazz Journalists Assocation, we are now announcing the…
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