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2019 Winners in Jazz Journalism

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Val Wilmer
Val Wilmer - 2019 Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Career Excellence in Photography
John Szwed
John Szwed - 2019 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz
Tom Reney
Tom Reney - 2019 Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting
Downbeat
Downbeat - 2019 Publication of the Year
Nate Chinen
Nate Chinen - 2019 The Helen Dance - Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Writing
Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon - 2019 Book of the Year About Jazz
Do The M@th
Do The M@th - 2019 Blog of the Year
Roy Hargrove by Andrea Matteo
Roy Hargrove by Andrea Matteo - 2019 Photo of the Year
Echoes Of Harlem - Mat Jodrel, by Charles Henry Alston
Echoes Of Harlem - Mat Jodrel, by Charles Henry Alston - 2019 Album Art of the Year

Congratulations to all the 2018 winners in Jazz Journalism of the 24th annual JJA Jazz Awards. 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, as well, to all the 2019 Nominees for Performance Performance & Recording in all categories. And please click the photos to expand them — some wonderful images here reward much larger presentation.

John Szwed

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism

JOHN SZWED

Jazz journalism, anthropologist, scholar

Nominees: Nate Chinen, Eugene Holley, Jr., Dan Ouellette, Ben Ratliff

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.

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collection of Downbeat magazine covers

Publication of the Year

Downbeat Magazine

Nominees: AllAboutJazz.com, Jazziz, JazzTimes, The New York City Jazz Record

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Blog of the Year

DO THE M@TH

Ethan Iverson

Nominees: Jazz Profiles, by Steven Cerra; Jazz Wax, by Marc Myers; Rifftides, by Doug Ramsey Jazz Lives, by Michael Steinman

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Nate Chinen

Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing

NATE CHINEN

(For works in 2019)
Photo by Michael Lionstar

Nominees: Ted Gioia, Marc Myers, Ted Panken, Giovanni Russonello

Tom Reney sitting outdoors

Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting

TOM RENEY

Nominees:  Arturo Gomez, Susan Kennedy, Awilda Rivera

Sophisticated Giant books

Book of the Year About Jazz

SOPHISTICATED GIANT: THE LIFE & LEGACY OF DEXTER GORDON

Maxine Gordon (University of California Press)

Nominees: 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 Giddons (Little, Brown); Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression, by Eugene Marlow (University Press of Mississippi); The History of European Jazz, Francesco Martinelli (Equinox)

Val Wilmer taking a photo of herself in the mirror

Lona Foote-Bob Parent Awards for Lifetime Achievement in Photography

VAL WILMER

Nominees: Patrick Hinely, Robert Sutherland-Cohen

Closeup of the piano soundboard with Roy Hargrove at the keys in the background

Photo of the Year

Roy Hargrove by ANDRIANA MATEO

Umbria Jazz Festival Teatro Morlacchi, Perugia, July 2018

Nominees: Victor Lewis, Half Note Jazz Club in Athens, Greece, by Thrassos Irinis; Francesco Diodati Yellow Squeeds, Umbria Jazz Winter 2019/Palazzo del Popolo, by Andrea Rotili; Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Leopolis Jazz Fest Lviv Ukraine, by Serhiy Horobets; Marco Piccirillo, Milk Jazz Way, Torino, Italy, by Carlo Mogavero

Echoes Of Harlem album cover

Album Art of the Year

CHARLES HENRY ALSTON for Echoes of Harlem

(by Mat Jodrell, Nicholas Records)

Nominees: Maizainne for Radiant Imprints (James Brandon Lewis/Chad Taylor, Off Record: Damon Locks for Universal Beings (Makaya McDraven, International Anthem); Steven Erdman for Solo A Genova (Jamie Saft, Rarenoise); Magdalena Zaslona for Climbing Trees (Rafal Sarnecki, Outside in Music); MusicWitness/Jeff Schlanger for The Balance (David S. Ware Trio (AUM Fidelity)

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