The JJA Book Awards, 2024: Nominees, Honorable Mentions and authors interviews

Interviews with authors of the 12 nominees in two JJA Books of the Year (2023) categories are now being posted at episodes of The Buzz: The JJA Podcast, starting with Steven Isoardi speaking about pianist Horace Tapscott, subject of his book The Dark Tree, with JJA Book Committee chair Bob Blumenthal. Discussions with Con Chapman about jazz in Kansas City, with Stephanie Stein Crease about her biography of Chick Webb, with Aaron Cohen about co-authoring Ramsey Lewis’ autobiography, and with Walter Van De Leur about his study Jazz and Death…

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New Zealand saxophonist in the Balkans

Vid Jeraj , the JJA’s man in Serbia, talks with Hayden Chisholm, the genre-defying alto saxophonist and entrepreneur from Down Under, now based in Belgrade. A genre-bending saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Hayden Chisholm was born in New Zealand and raised during multifarious cosmopolitan travels. Based since 2017 in Belgrade, Chisholm researches a-path-not-so-often-taken of ethno-fusions, namely ones related to gypsy and chamber music. Having been a mainstay in Cologne for 20 years, in Belgrade Chisholm set out for entrepreneurship and opened up a music club called BAM, Balkan Academy of Music.…

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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

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.

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VIDEOS

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.

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