The Jazz Journalists Association’s board of directors has expanded with three newmembers, representing further diversity of voices guiding the organization in its…
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The 2018 JJA Jazz Awards, presented annually since 1996, will be discontinued if new leadership is not found to spearhead the complex, time-consuming…
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The first ever (?!?) panel discussion of gender issues by four women who are professional jazz journalists (documented to vlogger Ms Michal Shapiro) kicked…
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The JJA celebrated its 21st annual Jazz Awards on June 6 2017 with a banquet at the Golden Unicorn in New York…
More“Basics of Jazz Journalism” is the title of the JJA’s panel discussion/workshop at the fifth annual Jazz Connect conference, to be held…
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The JJA’s eyeJAZZ initiative, funded in 2010 by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Association’s Jazz.NEXT project to train videographers in short-form news production c0ncerning…
MoreThe National Endowment for the Arts has announced plans to end its 30-year-old Jazz Masters program. See blog posts by JJA President…
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[Editor’s note: This piece is in reply to Howard Mandel’s book review, posted December 20, 2010.] Let’s start with what my book…
MoreNew York, January 13, 2011 — On Saturday, January 8, members of the JJA as well as interested musicians and industry representatives…
MoreNew York, January 10, 2011 — JJA President Howard Mandel grabbed the blue-padded chairs in Conference Room C at Manhattan’s midtown Sheraton…
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[Photo: Vijay Iyer accepting award. © Enid Farber 2010] This is the year the Jazz Journalists Association’s Jazz Awards went digital, increasingly global…
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