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2020 Winners in Jazz Journalism

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Stanley Crouch
JazzTimes
WBGO
Nate Chinen
Richard Hadlock
Jazz From Detroit
Richard Conde
Jazzmeia Horn
A Wall Becomes A Bridge
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Congratulations to all the winners of the 24th annual 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 2020 Nominees for Jazz Journalism in all categories. And please click the photos to expand them — some wonderful images here reward much larger presentation.

The 2020 JJA Jazz Awards was made possible with support from Blue Note Jazz Club, Joyce & George Wein Foundation, Jazz Foundation of America, ECM, Century Media Partners LLC, Carolyn McClair Public Relations, Jazz Promo Services, and Hot House Global.

Stanley Crouch

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism

STANLEY CROUCH

Poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist, biographer
Photo by Zack Zook

Nominees: Larry Blumenfeld, Dan Oullette, Ben Ratliff, Howard Reich

Stanley Crouch is a cultural critic, author, curator and recreational drummer. Based in New York City since 1975, he booked avant-garde jazz for the Tin Palace, wrote for the Village Voice from 1980-88, and became artistic consultant to Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He’s been a columnist for the New York Daily News, syndicated and commissioned by many periodicals, including a column for JazzTimes. His books include Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989; The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994; Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker; The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity; andConsidering Genius: Writings on Jazz.He speaks in Ken Burns’ Jazz and other documentaries, and has been President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.

JazzTimes

Publication of the Year

JAZZTIMES Magazine

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

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WBGO

Blog of the Year

WBGO

Nate Chinen, Director of Editorial Content

Nominees: Jazz Profiles, by Steven Cerra; Do The Math, by Ethan Iverson; JazzOnTheTube.com, directed by Ken McCarthy, JazzWax, by Marc Myers

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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: Larry Blumenfeld, Ted Panken, Giovanni Russonello

Richard Hadlock

Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting

RICHARD HADLOCK

Photo by Andrew Gilbert

Nominees: Rusty Hassan, Simon Rentner, Alisa Clancy

Jazz From Detroit

Book of the Year About Jazz

JAZZ FROM DETROIT

(University of Michigan Press) by Mark Stryker

Music: A Subversive History (Basic Books), by Ted Gioia; Rabbit’s Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges (Oxford University Press), by Con Chapman; Women in Jazz: The Women, The Legends & Their Fights (8th House Publishing), by Sammy Stein; Miles Davis: New Research on Miles Davis and His Circle (Masaya Music), by Masaya Yamaguchi

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Richard Conde

Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography

RICHARD CONDE

Photo by Jerry Lacay

Nominees: Peter Gannushkin, Steven Sussman, Robert Sutherland-Cohen

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Jazzmeia Horn

Photo of the Year

JAZZMEIA HORN, BELGRADE JAZZ FESTIVAL BY NEDICI DRAGOSLAV

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

A Wall Becomes A Bridge

Album Art of the Year

YASHUA KLOS for A Wall Becomes A Bridge

(by Kendrick Scott Oracle, Blue Note)

Nominees: Playtime 2050 (Nick Sanders Trio, Sunnyside), Art by Leah Saulnier and Christopher Drukker; Water (Fima Chupakhin, s/r), Art by Andrew Nedzvedsky, Hellmark Studio; Dream A Little… (Champian Fulton/Cory Weeds, Cellar Live), Art by Takao Fujioka; Longboard: Being Wild (Alban Darche/Matthieu Donarier/Meivelyan Jacquot, YOLK Music), Art by Kerne Erickson © Greg Young Publishing, Inc. and by Jean Depagne, Anima Productions

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2020 AWARDSSPONSORS

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Joyce & George Wein Foundation logo
Jazz Foundation of America logo
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Century Media Partners, LLC logo
Carolyn McClair PR logo
Jazz Promo Services logo
Hot House Global logo

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