Congratulations to all the 2022 winners of the 27th 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 2022 Nominees for Jazz Journalism in all categories. And please click the photos to expand them — the wonderful images here reward much larger presentation.
Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism
GREG TATE
Writer, musician, producer, critic
Nominees: Larry Blumenfeld, Will Friedwald, John McDonough, Dan Ouellette
GREG TATE (October 14, 1957 – December 7, 2021) was a longtime critic for the Village Voice, and wrote for DownBeat, VIBE, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Essence, Rolling Stone, JazzTimes and Artforum, among other publications, focusing particularly on African-American music and culture. He is frequently credited with helping to establish hip-hop as a genre worthy of serious study and criticism. His books include the collections Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (1992) and its sequel Flyboy 2 (2016); Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix And The Black Experience, and he was the editor of Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture. He was the Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies in 2009, and a visiting professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in 2012; he also lectured at Dartmouth and Princeton. In 2010 Tate was awarded a United States Artists fellowship. He was a founder of the Black Rock Coalition, a guitarist, conductor and producer of albums by Burnt Sugar: The Chamber Arkestra. He was an onscreen commentator in several music documentaries, including 2022 Academy Award-winner Summer of Soul.
Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing in 2021
TED GIOIA
Nominees: Nate Chinen, Maria Golia, Giovanni Russonello
Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Career Achievement in Broadcasting
RUSTY HASSAN
WPFW
Nominee: Sid Gribetz (WKCR)
Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Career Achievement in Photography
CAROL FRIEDMAN
Nominees: Peter Gannushkin; Robert Sutherland-Cohen
Publication/Website of the Year
DOWNBEAT Magazine
Nominees: JazzTimes, Jazziz, The New York City Jazz Record, The Syncopated Times
Biography/Autobiography of the Year
MARY LOU WILLIAMS: MUSIC FOR THE SOUL
by Deanna Witkowski (Liturgical Press)
Nominees: Reflectory: The Life and Music of Pepper Adams, by Gary Carner (Lulu Press); The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer, by Dottie Dodgion and Wayne Enstice (University of Illinois Press); Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker, by Bill Milkowski (Backbeat Books); Universal Tonality: The Life of William Parker, by Cisco Bradley (Duke University Press)
Book of the Year About Jazz: History, Criticism and Culture
SHE RAISED HER VOICE!
50 Black Women Who Sang Their Way Into Music History
by Jordannah Elizabeth with illustrations by Briana Dengoue (RP Kids)
Nominees: Footnotes:The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way, by Caseen Gaines (Sourcebooks); Soundtrack to a Movement: African-American Islam, Jazz and Black Internationalism by Richard Brent Turner (NYU Press)
Blog of the Year
THE HONEST BROKER
By Ted Gioia
Nominees: Do The Math, by Ethan Iverson; JazzWax, by Marc Myers
Podcast of the Year
JAZZ UNITED
From WBGO, hosted by Greg Bryant and Nate Chinen
Nominees: Burning Ambulance, hosted by Phil Freeman
Live-Stream Producer of the Year
EMMET COHEN
LIVE FROM EMMET’S PLACE
Nominees: Village Vanguard, “Livestream Events”; Jimmy Greenfield, “Soapbox Gallery”; The Jazz Gallery, “Livestream Concerts”
Photo of the Year
Lakecia Benjamin by URSZULA LAS
Jazz Jamboree Warsaw Poland
Nominees: Lauren Deutsch, Miguel Zénon, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Chicago; Serge Heimlich, Theo Ceccaldi, Like A Jazz Machine in Dudelange, Luxembourg; Geoff Norris; Greg Tschernez and Nathan George, Caboolture Sports Club north of Brisbane; Giuseppe Cardoni, Emanuele Filippi, Grey Cat Jazz Festival – Follonica (Grosseto) Italy; Tatiana Gorilovsky, Archie Shepp, EFG London Jazz Festival at the Barbican Centre, London; Mitchel Seidel,
Adrian Cunningham and band, Shanghai Jazz in Madison, New Jersey; Joke Schot, Maria Schneider and the Subway Jazz Orchestra, Belgrade; Antonio Porcar Cano, Mark Whitfield and Philip Catherine, Festival de Jazz de Santander, Spain
Album Art of the Year
RUDY GUTIERREZ for Kenny Garrett's Sounds from the Ancestors
(Mack Avenue)
Nominees: Martel Chapman for Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recording (Hassan Ibn Ali, Omnivore); Chris Pouler for A Prayer For Lester Bowie (David Sanford Big Band featuring Hugh Ragin, Greenleaf Music); Wadada Leo Smith for Trumpet (Wadada Leo Smith, TUM); Nora Howard for Long Tall Sunshine (Barry Altschul’s 3dom Factor, Not Two)
2022 AWARDSFOR PERFORMANCE & RECORDING
2022 Winners for Jazz Performance and Recordings
Congratulations to all 2022 Winners for Jazz Performance and Recordings of the 27th annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.
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