These are the finalist nominees for Journalism the 2017 JJA Jazz Awards. Nominees in most categories were chosen by the votes of the Professional Journalist Members of the Jazz Journalists Association. Nominations were made on the basis of work done in calendar year 2016, with the exception of Lifetime Achievement/Career Achievement Awards categories, in which nominations are for a lifetime body of work. Members and others were able to submit their own work for consideration in the Photo of the Year category; a committee of JJA Members chose the nominees in that category from among the submissions. Nominees for Book of the Year and Album Art of the Year were also pre-screened by committees.
Nominees
Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism
Will Friedwald
Ted Gioia
Ben Ratliff
John Szwed
Kevin Whitehead
Print Periodical/Website of the Year
AllAboutJazz.com
DownBeat
Hot House
JazzTimes
Jazziz
The New York City Jazz Record
The New York Times
Blog of the Year
Do The Math, By Ethan Iverson
Jazz Lives, By Michael Steinman
Book of the Year About Jazz
Anatomy Of A Song: The Oral History Of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B And Pop, by Marc Myers(Grove Press)
Better Git It In Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography Of Charles Mingus, by Krin Gabbard (University Of California Press)
How To Listen To Jazz, by Ted Gioia (Basic Books)
Stan Levey: Jazz Heavyweight, by Frank R. Hayde (Santa Monica Press)
Robert Palmer - Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing in 2020
Marc Myers
Nate Chinen
Ashley Kahn
Larry Blumenfeld
The Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting
Rusty Hassan, Host Of “Late Night Jazz” on WPFW in Washington, DC)
Awilda Rivera, Host of “Evening Jazz, Latin Jazz Cruise” on WBGO in Newark, NJ)
Mark Ruffin, Program Director of “Jazz at SiriusXM”, and Host of “Real Jazz with Mark Ruffin”
The Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Career Excellence in Photography
Richard Conde
Peter Gannushkin
Frank Stewart
Album Art of the Year
Boss Level
(Arturo O’Farrill Sextet, Zoho)
Artwork by Jill Degroff
Dream Deferred
(Ralph Peterson Aggregate Prime, Onyx Music)
Artwork by Andres Chaparro
Duo
(Dawda Jobarteh and Stefan Pasborg, Ilk Music)
Artwork and design by Rasmus Meisler
Everything Is Beautiful
(Miles Davis and Robert Glasper, Columbia/Legacy)
Artwork by Francine Turk
Moments In Time
(Stan Getz, Resonance Records)
Artwork by Takao Fujioka
Notes From New York
( Bill Charlap Trio, Impulse!)
Artwork by David Cowles
San Jose Suite
(Etienne Charles, Culture Shock Music)
Artwork by Roland Nicol
Jazz Photo of the Year - click image to enlarge
Adrien Tillman
Dezron Douglas at Dizzy Club Coca Cola in New York, NY, February 2016
Luciano Rossetti
Muhal Richard Abramson and Jonathan Finlayson, Renaud Garcia-Fons at Teatro in Manzoni, Milan, January 2016
Michael Jackson
Wadada Leo Smith at Constellation in Chicago, IL, 2016
Dragan Tasic
Ty Taylor at Blue Balls Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, July 2016
Manolo Nebot Rochera
Cécile McLorin Salvant at Festival Internacional Jazz Peniscola in Castellon, Spain, July 2016
Antonio Porcar Cano
Charles Gayle at Jimmy Glass Jazz Club in Valencia, Spain, October 2016
Marion Tisserand
Les Monstroplantes at Ninkasi Kao in Lyon, France, December 2016
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