The JJA has multiple outlets, platforms, and social media accounts. Links and information on each of these is contained in…
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JJA members love jazz all year long — but April is the hippest month, and 2024 is special, as Willard…
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The Jazz Journalists Association proudly announces its slate of 2024 Jazz Heroes, people who go beyond their job titles to have have significant impact in their local communities by supporting jazz music, musicians and musical culture. Thirty-three “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz are hailed by supporters from their local communities, with JJA help nto disseminate news of the honors broadly. Read their bios and dig the diversity of efforts to present, promote and support music now, from the borderland of Baja California, Mexico – San Diego to…
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JJA members love jazz all year long — but April is the hippest month, and 2024 is special, as Willard Jenkins, a JJA founder, has been named a Jazz Master!!!, getting the A.B. Spellman Award for jazz advocacy, from the National Endowment for the Arts! Big time congratulations to Willard! He’s done even more than birth the JJA. Heear his NEA-produced podcast, and watch Willard’s investiture (along with fellow new honorees Amina Claudine Myers, Gary Bartz and Terence Blanchard) and the gala NEA’s tribute concert on April 14, 7:30 pm…
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The Jazz Journalists Association has announced the schedule for its spring 2024…
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Interviews with authors of the 12 nominees in two JJA Books of…
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Vid Jeraj , the JJA’s man in Serbia, talks with Hayden Chisholm,…
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Reuben Jackson, an acclaimed Washington-based jazz historian, radio host, poet, teacher, music…
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Awards
The annual Jazz Journalists Awards, established in 1996 and conferred by vote of JJA professional members, celebrate accomplishments in music and music media
Events
Educational webinars, panel discussions, members’ meetups and professional symposia, held across the U.S. or online for international access.
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.
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.
Jazz Journalists Association Sponsors
VIDEOS
Freshly posted: Archival video of the JJA Photography Master Class, with Lauren Deutsch, whose innovative experiments in fine arts photography and journalistic…
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The JJA’s Youtube published video of the 2015 Jazz Awards party in New…
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
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
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.
Promotion
Resources for producing and promoting events for International Jazz Appreciation Month (aka: April) and beyond.
