1) What is the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA)? The Jazz Journalists Association is a non-profit professional organization of freelance and staff writers,…
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Jazz Journalists Association members — most writers or broadcasters, living in or near U.S. major or smaller cities — want more connections…
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The story is like a fairytale, one that is almost impossible to believe or for a child to understand. It is the…
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One unintended consequence of the 2020 JJA Jazz Awards: Photographer Steven Sussman has gone public with his images of jazz musicians in…
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Carla Bley, composer-arranger-bandleader and pianist, has won the 2020 JJA Jazz Award for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz in the 25th annual honors…
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Finalists for the 25th annual Jazz Awards presented by the Jazz Journalists Association have been announced at www.JJAJazzAwards.org, demonstrating both generational continuity and diversity of…
MoreA JJA acquaintance with experience on this issue warns: Writers who use photographs on their blog posts, Instagram accounts, Facebook page or…
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The Jazz Journalists Association today named 27 “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz” in 23 U.S. cities as 2020 Jazz…
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Jazz On The Tube — which serves 30,000 jazz-lovin’ subscribers to emails with embedded performance videos daily — has posted the best…
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Some two dozen JJA activists and more colleagues across the world launched “Working the Beat: Jazz in Today’s Media,” via four Zoom…
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Photographers are encouraged to submit an image for the JJA’s 2020 Jazz Photo of the Year Award, as nominations for the organization’s…
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Editor’s note: The 35th annual Jazz Plaza festival in Cuba ran from January 14 through 19, and JJA member José dos Santos…
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