Congratulations to all the winners of the 2015 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards for Jazz Journalism. Professional journalist members of the JJA made open nominations in a first-selection round; those who received the most nominations advanced to the finalists’ ballot, and JJA’s professional members voted on them to arrive at these honorees.
Our congratulations, of course, to all the 2015 Nominees for Jazz Journalism in all categories. And please click the photos to expand them — some wonderful images here reward much larger presentation.
Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism
NEIL TESSER
Journalist, radio host, music critic and author
Nominees: Marc Myers, Ted Panken
Publication of the Year
JAZZTIMES
Nominees: Downbeat, The New York City Jazz Record
Blog of the Year
JAZZWAX
By Marc Myers
Nominees: A Blog Supree, by NPR Jazz; AllAboutJazz.com, jazzcorner.com, jazztimes.com
Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing
NATE CHINEN
(For works in 2014)
Photo by Michael Lionstar
Nominees: Ashley Kahn, Ted Gioia
Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting
CHRISTIAN McBRIDE
(for works in 2014)
Host, Jazz Night in America from WBGO/NPR/Jazz at Lincoln Center
Photo by Chi Modu
Nominees: Linda Yohn (host of “89.1 Jazz” on WEMU Ypsilanti, MI), Rusty Hassan ( host of “Late Night Jazz” WPFW-FM, Washington, D.C.)
Book of the Year About Jazz
HERBIE HANCOCK: POSSIBILITIES
(Viking) by HERBIE HANCOCK with LISA DICKEY
Nominees:Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan by Ellen Johnson (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers), ART: Why I Stuck With a Junkie Jazzman: Inventing a Marriage by Laurie Pepper (BookBaby)
Photo of the Year
Dave Holland and Kenny Barron by ANDREA PALMUCCI
Nominees: Roy Hargrove by Andrea Boccalini, Benni Maupin by William Ellis, Jon Batiste and Stay Human by Richard Conde, Kamasi Washington by Sando Niboli, Roscoe Mitchell by Lauren Deutsch
Jazz Film Short
#WE CAN'T BREATHE by Brandon Bain
A Peaceful Protest
Nominees: “Sonny Rollings in India: Learning Yoga and Why” by Bret Primack; “Great Advice from Musicians for Musicians,” by John Moultri; “Alan Broadbent and the NDR Big Band: America the Beautiful”by Jack Sewell; “Bob Perkins Making a Difference Award” by Jason Fifield; “Montreux Jazz Festival” by Robert Bound/Gabriel Leigh
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