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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W. Royal Stokes, a founding JJA member and Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism award recipient, has compiled his annual list of books…
MoreAn extensive list of international esteemed jazz, blues and “creative music” instrumentalists, singers and adherents of those arts who died in 2019.…
MoreThe JJA being a partner association with the Jazz Congress being held at Jazz at Lincoln Center on January 13 and 14,…
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“Best of Jazz 2019” posts by JJA members are now being published at http://members.jazzjournalists.org/2019BestofJazz (the link is also in the right-hand column…
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