In January 2018, the JJA produced a day-long media summit at the Jazz Gallery. The first session featured writers Jordannah Elizabeth, Michelle…
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The jazz world lost a tireless champion with the passing on December 26, 2018 of Yvonne Ervin, a festival producer, writer, fund-raiser,…
MoreMusicians and journalists will talk about “Chicago’s greatest hits” in a series produced of listening sessions starting January 24 and being held…
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Chicago-based photographer Michael Jackson, celebrated for his Career Excellence in Photography with the JJA’s 2018 Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award, herded the cats…
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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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Winners of the Jazz Journalists Association’s 2018 Jazz Awards, the 22rd annual honors for excellence in music and music journalism conferred by…
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On April 30, a panel including two JJA members and a performance representing the global reach of the jazz community took place…
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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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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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Ken Franckling, photographer/blogger extraordinaire, has won multiple JJA Jazz Awards and last year, also, the lottery drawing for a Jazz Cruise cabin…
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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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