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2019 Nominees for Journalism

April 16, 2019
in Award Nominees, Awards for Journalism
2019 Photo of the Year Nominee: Kirk Joseph at the Montreal Jazz Festival, June 2018, by Michael Jackson

2019 Photo of the Year Nominee: Kirk Joseph at the Montreal Jazz Festival, June 2018, by Michael Jackson

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These are the finalist nominees for the 2019 JJA Jazz Awards for Journalism. 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 2018, with the exception of Lifetime Achievement Awards categories, in which nominations are for a lifetime body of work.

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Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism

Nate Chinen has, since 2017, been director of editorial content at WBGO (responsible for Jazz Night in America, Jazz Night in America, The Checkout and other NPR jazz coverage). For nearly a dozen years a jazz and pop music reviewer for the New York Times, and columnist producing “The Gig” for JazzTimes, he is an 11-time winner of the JJA’s Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for excellence in writing during a given year, and winner of the JJA’s Best Book of the Year Award for his work with George Wein on Myself Among Others. Nate has been writing about jazz since 1996, when he began at Philadelphia City Paper; covered jazz for The Village Voice in the early ’00s, and has also been published in DownBeat, Blender and Vibe. His book Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century was published in 2018.

Eugene Holley, Jr. writes about jazz and culture for DownBeat, Publishers Weekly, Hot House, New Music Box, Chamber Music and Playbill. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, NPR: A Blog Supreme, Vibe, Wax Poetics, and The New York Times Book Review and in the books Writing Music: A Bedford Spotlight Reader, Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation, and Best Music Writing: 2010, also as liner notes for many albums. He was the program director of WCLK-FM, Clark-Atlanta University, a freelance arts reporter/producer for NPR and co-produced two radio documentaries, “Dizzy’s Diamonds” and “The Duke Ellington Radio Project.”

Dan Ouellette has been a freelance writer for more than 25 years, published in DownBeat, Billboard, Qwest.TV, the Huffington Post and The Absolute Sound, and is senior editor of ZEALNYC for which he writes the column “Jazz Notes Intel.” He’s the author of Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes and Bruce Lundvall: Playing By Ear, and has regularly presented public q&a sessions with major jazz artists at the Monterey Jazz Festival and North Sea Jazz Festival.

Ben Ratliff is a journalist and professor, jazz and pop critic for the New York Times (1996 – 2016), with writings in Esquire and a broad range of other publications including the New York Review of Books, NPR, Slate, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, 4Columns, Spin, Lingua Franca, Guardian, Metropolis, Village Voice, Coda, Option, Granta, Bookforum, Jazz Times and Wire. He is author of Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty (2016); The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (2008); Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (2007, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Jazz: A Critic’s Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings (2002). He was host of the New York Times Popcast from 2012 to 2016. He teaches cultural criticism at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

John Szwed has written the biographies Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra), So What: The Life of Miles Davis, Billie Holiday: The Musician and The Myth, and Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World, and authored Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz; Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music and Culture; Lovers, and Jazz: An American Story for Jazz at Lincoln Center. He was Louis Armstrong Professor of Jazz, Director of the Center for Jazz Studies, and editor of JazzStudiesOnline.org at Columbia University. He’s written for Epistrophy, The Wire, Jazziz, Pulse, and The Village Voice (1979-2009), and was the music critic for Terry Gross’s, Fresh Air (1980-1982). Szwed is editor of the Jazz Perspectives Book Series, University of Michigan Press, has produced records for Evidence and Mixtery, and was awarded a Grammy in 2005.

Print Periodical/Website of the Year

All About Jazz
DownBeat
Jazziz

JazzTimes
The New York City Jazz Record

Blog of the Year

Jazz Profiles, by Steve Cerra
Do The Math, by Ethan Iverson
Jazz Wax, by Marc Myers

Rifftides, by Doug Ramsey
Jazz Lives, by Michael Steinman

Book of the Year About Jazz

Playing The Changes: Jazz for the New Century by Nate Chinen (Pantheon)
Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946 by Gary Giddins (Little, Brown)
Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon (University of California Press)
Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression by Eugene Marlow (University Press of Mississippi)
The History of European Jazz by Francesco Martinelli (Equinox)

Robert Palmer - Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing in 2019

Nate Chinen
Ted Gioia
Marc Myers

Ted Panken
Giovanni Russonello

The Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting

Arturo Gomez, KUVO Jazz, Denver CO
Susan Kennedy, “Big Band Hall of Fame,” WMNR-Monroe, CT
Tom Reney, “Jazz a la Mode”, WFCR, New England Public Radio
Awilda Rivera, WBGO Jazz, Newark, 1992-2019 Twitter

The Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Career Excellence in Photography

Patrick Hinely
Robert Sutherland-Cohen work samples

Val Wilmer work samples

Album Art of the Year

Echoes of Harlem
(Mat Jodrell)
Artwork by Charles Henry Alston

Echoes of Harlem album cover

Radiant Imprints
(James Brandon Lewis/Chad Taylor, Off Record)
Artwork by Maizianne

Radiant Imprints album cover

Universal Beings
(Makaya McCraven, International Anthem)
Artwork by Damon Locks

Universal Beings album cover

Solo A Genova
(Jamie Saft, Rarenoise)
Artwork by Steven Erdman

Solo A Genova album cover

Climbing Trees
(Rafal Sarnecki, Outside in Music)
Artwork by Magdalena Zaslona

Climbing Trees album cover

The Balance
(David S. Ware Trio, Aum Fidelity)
Artwork by MUSICWITNESS® / Jeff Schlanger

The Balance album cover

Jazz Photo of the Year

Donny McCaslin & John Patitucci
Monterey Jazz Festival, September 2018
By Stuart Brinin

Donny McCaslin playing tenor sax with John Patitucci in the background

Kirk Joseph
Montreal Jazz Festival, June 2018
By Michael Jackson

Kirk Jospeh playing tuba - black & white

Jan Kodym
Jazz Club Satchmo Hradec Králove Czech Republic, November 2018
By Patrick Marek

Shadow of Jan Kodym and his bass - black and white

Roy Hargrove
Umbria Jazz Festival Teatro Moriacchi, Perugia, Italy, July 2018
By Adriana Mateo

Close up of piano soundboard with Roy Hargrove at the keys in the background

Ron Carter
Festival de Jazz de Valencia, Spain, July 2018
By Manolo Nebot Rochera

Closeup of Ron Carter playing bass with eyes closed

Scott aTunde Adjuah
Lviv Ukraine, June 2018
By Oleg Panav

Christian Scott blowing into bent trumpet with a spay of spit - black and white

Winners of the 2019 JJA Jazz Awards in all categories will be determined by the votes of JJA Professional Journalist Members, and will be announced in May..

Visit the Jazz Journalists Association website for information on how to participate as a voting member or as a sponsor.

Image: 2019 Photo of the Year nominee – Kirk Joseph at the Montreal Jazz Festival, June 2018, by Michael Jackson

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