Congratulations to all the winners of the 2017 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 2017 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 GIOIA
Jazz Critic, historian
Photo by Ted Shafer
Nominees: Will Friedwald, Ben Ratliff, John Szwed, Kevin Whitehead
Publication of the Year
DOWNBEAT
Nominees: AllAboutJazz.com, HotHouse, Jazziz, JazzTimes, The New York City Jazz Record, The New York Times
Blog of the Year
DO THE M@TH
By Ethan Iverson
Nominees: Jazz Lives, by Michael Steinman; JazzWax, by Marc Myers; Rifftides, by Doug Ramsey
Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing
ASHLEY KAHN
(For works in 2016)
Nominees: Marc Myers, Nate Chine, Larry Blumenfeld
Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting
MARK RUFFIN
Nominees: Rusty Hassan, Awilda Rivera
Book of the Year About Jazz
BETTER GET IT IN YOUR SOUL: AN INTERPRETIVE BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES MINGUS
(University of California Press) by KRIN GABBARD
Nominees: Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changes Rock, R&B and Pop (Grove Press), by Marc Myers; How To Listen To Jazz (Basic Books), by Ted Gioia; Stan Levy: Jazz Heavyweight (Santa Monica Press Music), by Frank R. Hayde
Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography
FRANK STEWART
Nominees: Richard Conde, Peter Gannushkin
Photo of the Year
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT by MANOLO NEBOT ROCHERA
at Festival Internacional Jazz Peniscola, Castellon Spain
Nominees: Dezron Douglas at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, New York, NY, US, by Adrien Tillmann; Muhal Richard Abrams and Jonathan Finlayson at Teatro Manzoni, Milan, Italy, by Luciano Rossetti; Wadada Leo Smith at Constellation, Chicago, IL, US, by Michael Jackson; Ty Taylor at Blue Balls Festival, Lucerne, Spain, by Dragan Tasic; Charles Gayle at Jimmy Glass Jazz Club, Valencia, Spain, by Antonio Porcar Cano; Les Monstroplantes at Lyon, France, by Marion Tisserand
Album Art of the Year
DAVID COWLES for Notes From New York
(by Bill Charlap Trio, Impulse/Verve)
Nominees: Boss Level (Arturo O’Farrill’s Sextet), by Jill Degroff; Dream Deferred (Ralph Peterson Aggregate Prime, Onyx Music), by Andres Chaparro; Duo (Dawda Jobarteh and Stefan Pasborg, ILK Music), by Rasmus Meisler; Everything’s Beautiful (Miles Davis and Robert Glasper, Colubia/Legacy), by Francine Turk; Moments in Time (Stan Getz, Resonance Records), by Takao Fujioka; San Jose Suite (Etienne Charles, Cultural Shock Music), by Roland Nicol
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