Jazz Journalists Association members love April
as Jazz Appreciation Month culminating in International Jazz Day. We hail newly inducted NEA Jazz Masters, laud and present 2024 Jazz Heroes, nominate and vote for JJA Jazz Awards (as well as in the DownBeat critics poll), attend the spring fests and prepare for the coming summer’s. So much to look forward for!
We’re please several journos have taken advantage of the JJA’s discounted first-time membership deal, so we welcome:
- La Mesa, California’s Paul Bodine, a supporter of “quality jazz writing”
- North Carolinian student audio-producer Veronica Downing, interested new media journalism,
- Ottawa broadcaster Ian Mackenzie,
- Half Moon Bay-resident photographer Brian McMillen, active since 1977,
- Johannesburg “visual storyteller (photographer)” Siphiwe Mhlambi,
- Seattle-based freelance writer Alexa Peters, who’s working on a book with Paul de Barros
- photographer Efrain Ribeiro — the JJA’s 2024 Baltimore Jazz Hero!,
- San Antonian Richard Salvucci, devotee of bop, big band and vocal jazz
- New York writer-blogger-editor Hank Shteamer and
- L.A.-based freelance photographer Jason Williams.
You’ll re reading more about them in the future. Speaking of reading, check out the series of eight Authors Interviews on The Buzz: The JJA Podcast — more of those to come. And view Seeing Jazz, the JJA’s Music Photography Master Classes, which occur monthly — register to attend on Zoom.
As for some of the rest of us, see page 2 —>>
