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March on, JJA members: Updates!

March 8, 2025

They go low — or high — and JJA members just keep goin’. It’s the only way. Look at the vast variety…

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2023 Jazz Heroes Announced: 36 new “A team” members in 32 U.S. Cities

April 6, 2023

The Jazz Journalists Association has launched celebration of its 2023 slate of Jazz Heroes — 36 people in 32 U.S. cities who…

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2020 Jazz Heroes Announced! JJA hails aiders and abettors in 23 U.S. cities

April 3, 2020

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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2019 Jazz Heroes — promoters, of many forms

April 1, 2019

The JJA has announced honors for 22 “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz” in 20 U.S. cities, filling the 2019…

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2018 Jazz Awards sponsors range across the ecosystem

June 20, 2018

The 40 sponsors of the Jazz Journalists Association’s 2018 Jazz Awards and Jazz Heroes initiatives signed up from across the breadth of the…

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2018 Jazz Heroes named and hailed! Sponsors thanked!

April 5, 2018

Twenty-two jazz-devoted Americans in 20 U.S. cities have been named 2018 Jazz Heroes by the Jazz Journalists Association, the non-profit professional organization…

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Nominations open for 23rd Annual JJA Jazz Awards

March 11, 2018

Nomination ballots for the 23rd Annual Jazz Journalists Association Awards are in the “mail” (actually, posted at Survey Monkey) and professional Journalist…

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26 Jazz Heroes in 20 U.S. locales announced, with parties

April 21, 2017

More than two dozen “Jazz Heroes” — Americans exerting unusual positive musical influence on their communities, and not only by being musicians – have…

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2016 JJA Jazz Awards season is underway

March 18, 2016

The Jazz Journalists Association has begun the process of selecting winners of its 2016 Jazz Awards for achievements in music and journalism,…

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JJA announces 2011 ‘Jazz Heroes’

May 15, 2011

The Jazz Journalists Association has named its 2011 “Jazz Heroes”– activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz who have had significant…

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