Congratulations to all the winners of the 2016 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 2016 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
TED PANKEN
Jazz journalist
Photo by Bonnie Johnson
Nominees: Ted Gioia, Will Friedwald
Publication of the Year
DOWNBEAT
Nominees: Jazziz, JazzTimes, The New York City Jazz Record
Blog of the Year
DO THE M@TH
By Ethan Iverson
Nominees: JazzWax, by Marc Myers; Rifftides, by Doug Ramsey
Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing
NATE CHINEN
(For works in 2015)
Michael Lionstar
Nominees: Ben Ratliff, Dan Ouellette, Doug Ramsey, Ethan Iverson, Geoffrey Himes, Giovanni Russonello, Marc Myers
Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting
LINDA YOHN
Music director, host of “89.1 Jazz” on WEMU, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Nominees: Eric Jackson (host of “Eric in the Evening” on WGBH Boston); Mark Ruffin (program director of jazz at SiriusXM, host “Real Jazz with Mark Ruffin”); Rusty Hassan (host of “Late Night Jazz” on WPFW, Washington, D.C.)
Book of the Year About Jazz
BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE MUSICIAN AND THE MYTH
(Viking/Penguin Publishing Company), by JOHN SZWED
Nominees: Letters to Yeyito – Lessons from a Life In Music (Restless Books), by Paquito D’Rivera; Microgroove: Forays into Other Music (Duke University Press), by John Corbett
Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography
KEN FRANCKLING
Nominees: Jimmy Katz, John Abbott, Lauren Deutsch, Michael Jackson, Richard Conde
Photo of the Year
Lucian Dubuis by PATRICK MAREK
Nominees: Gerald Clayton by Jean-Louis Neveu; Hernani Faustino by Lech Basel; Diane Reeves by Luciano Rossetti; Marcus Miller by Marion Tisserand; Barney McAll and James King by Thrassos Irinis
Album Art of the Year
THE EPIC by Kamasi Washington
(Brainfeeder) Photo by Mike Park
Nominees: Climate Change (Béla Szakcsi Lakatos/Tim Ries/Robert Hurst//Rudy Royston, BMC Records), by László Huszár / Greenroom; Solo Trumpet (Dave Ballou, Clean Feed), by Travassos; The Gauntlet of Mehen (Tom Blancarte/Peter Evans/Louise D.E. Jensen/Dan Peck, Destiny Records), by Lukas Ketner; Flip-Flop (John Yao and his 17-Piece Instrument, See Tao) by David McDaniel; Samnyasin Nomadic (Sonny Simmons/Moksha, Svart Records) by Tokio Aoyama
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