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Links and information on each of these is contained in… More by Michael J. West Member Updates Jazz Appreciation Month members’ updates! Willard Jenkins, Jazz Master! JJA members love jazz all year long — but April is the hippest month, and 2024 is special, as Willard… More Chuck Koton on 2024-02-13 Leslie Lynnton Fuller on 2024-01-12 Steve Braunginn on 2023-12-29 Russell Perry on 2023-12-27 Mark Lomanno on 2023-12-15 Rob Hoff on 2023-12-13 More Best Of Lists by JJA Editor May 10, 2024 Headlines 2024 Awards winners announcement delayed – Hold on ’til Monday, meanwhile view nominees Announcement of the winners of the 2024 JJA Jazz Awards, the Jazz Journalists Association’s 29th annual celebration of excellence in music and music media, has been delayed from previously scheduled May 8 to next Monday, May 13. Sorry for the suspense — transient illness threw publication offtrack — fine now — please be patient! And anticipate the honors in more than 40 categories of jazz activities. See all the nominees here.… More by Larry Tye May 3, 2024 Headlines Duke, Pops, Basie suffered slings, slurs: critics flip-flopped, icons defied analysis Insults couldn’t pierce the thick skin of musicians like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong or Count Basie, long accustomed to bigoted slurs and crude critique. But when reviewers blithely demeaned them as uncultured clowns, or savage beasts, something snapped Armstrong might have come straight from some African jungle and then, after being taken to a slop tailor’s for a ready made dress-suit, been put straight on the stage and told to ‘sing,’” Hannen Swaffer, one of Britain’s best-known drama critics, wrote in the Daily Herald in 1932. A competing London rag,… More April 28, 2024 Features 2024 Jazz Awards Nominees Announced! See them all at www.JJAJazzAwards.org!!! That’s JJAJazzAwards.org!… More April 28, 2024 Features / Final Bars Michael Cuscuna, 1948 – 2024 Michael Cuscuna, known best as a record producer associated with Blue Note… More April 15, 2024 Features 2024 JJA Jazz Heroes: 33 stalwart supporters, all across North America The Jazz Journalists Association proudly announces its slate of 2024 Jazz Heroes,… More April 12, 2024 Features JJA Awards season starts — Jazz Heroes on 4/15! The Jazz Journalists Association has announced the schedule for its spring 2024… More WHAT WE DO Awards The annual Jazz Journalists Awards, established in 1996 and conferred by vote of JJA professional members, celebrate accomplishments in music and music media JJA Awards Website Events Educational webinars, panel discussions, members’ meetups and professional symposia, held across the U.S. or online for international access. Upcoming Events Heroes Activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz” – members of jazz’s ‘A Team’– are recognized by the JJA and in their communities throughout the U.S. View Jazz Heroes Podcast Insights and interviews from JJA members on new music, publications and films about jazz, and on the the state of jazz journalism and evolving mediums. Listen Now Jazz Journalists Association Sponsors VIDEOS Now on Youtube: Lauren Deutsch’s experimental, fine art, journalistic photography: Seeing Jazz #2 August 21, 2022 Seeing Jazz Freshly posted: Archival video of the JJA Photography Master Class, with Lauren Deutsch, whose innovative experiments in fine arts photography and journalistic… More Video: 2015 JJA Jazz Awards party at Blue Note August 17, 2015 The JJA’s Youtube published video of the 2015 Jazz Awards party in New… Seeing Jazz With Ken Franckling February 17, 2014 … Seeing Jazz with Nedici Dragoslav February 17, 2012 … JJA Resources Photojournalism SEEING JAZZ is a monthly live master class series led by past JJA Photographer of the Year award winners and other professional photo journalists Past Masterclasses Videojournalism eyeJAZZ is a series of webinars used created out of a JJA’s Video Training Program for short, news, jazz videos made with simple tools and distributed online eyeJAZZ Archive Webinars TALKING JAZZ webinars feature jazz world leaders and experts discussing the issues that are shaping the way we perform, program, promote –and fund– jazz now and in the future. Talking Jazz Archive Promotion Resources for producing and promoting events for International Jazz Appreciation Month (aka: April) and beyond. Jazz April Website POPULAR ARTICLES Final Bar for the Master Chronicler: Ken Franckling Double Threat Journalist and More 1949-2023 by Philip Booth Features 2023 Jazz Heroes Announced: 36 new A team” members in 32 U.S. Cities by JJA Editor Features JJA membership campaign discount! One year $50 for first time enrollees by JJA Editor Announcements Spring a little late? 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