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2024 Nominees for Journalism & Media

April 26, 2024
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Pola Atmanska by Lech Basel
Andrzej Swies by D. Kwapisiewicz
Cécile McLorin Salvant by Urszula Las
Alexander von Schlippenbach by Frank Schindelbeck
Harrison Bankhead Memorial by Michael Jackson
Susana Santos Silva by Luciano Rossetti

2024 Photo of the Year nominees

These are the finalist nominees for Journalism the 2024 JJA Jazz Awards. 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 2023, with the exception of Lifetime Achievement/Career Achievement Awards categories, in which nominations are for a lifetime body of work. Members and others were able to submit their own work for consideration in the Photo of the Year category; a committee of JJA members chose the nominees in that category from among the submissions. Nominees for Book of the Year and Album Art of the Year were also pre-screened by committees.

Nominees

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism

NATE CHINEN
b. 1976 and writing about jazz since 1996, is currently editorial director of WRTI (Philadelphia) and formerly director of editorial content at WBGO (Newark), also reporting on NPR. Active on social media and with a Substack titled The Gig (based on his longtime column at the former JazzTimes), Nate is the author of Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century, and co-authored George Wein’s autobiography Myself Among Others: A Life in Music. He’s been a critic at the New York Times, the Village Voice and Philadelphia City Paper, published in national magazines. and has won the JJA’s Helen Oakley Dance – Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Writing 13 times.

WILL FRIEDWALD
b. 1961, is the author and has written music criticism for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Village Voice, Newsday, New York Observer, New York Sun, and magazines ranging from Entertainment Weekly to the Oxford America. He’s the author of Straighten Up and Fly RIght: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole; Sinatra: The Song is You – A Singer’s Art; Jazz Singing: America’s Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond; Stardust Melodies – The Biography of Twelve of America’s Most Popular Songs; Tony Bennett: The Good Life; Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies; A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers; and The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums; his writing appear in collaborative volumes and anthologies, too. He is an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award recipient, among other honors. Will curates a video and sometimes live production entitled “Clip Joint,” and is an active researcher. He has written over 600 liner notes for compact discs, received 11 Grammy nominations, and appears frequently on television and film documentaries. He is also a consultant and curator for Apple Music.

ROBIN D. G. KELLEY
b. 1962, is the author of the JJA Book of the Year Award winningThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009), and currently Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), having charted a distinguished academic career. Self-described as a “Marxist surrealist feminist,” he’s also written Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012) and published prolifically both in academic journals and the popular press *including the New York Times and Village Voice).

JOHN LITWEILER
b. 1940, is a Chicago-based writer, who has documented the music of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since its start, writing for DownBeat, the Chicago Sun-Times and Reader, Coda and other publications. He hosts a radio program on WHPK; his books are The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 18958 and Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life as well as the novels Mojo Snake Minuet and Sundidos.

Print Periodical/Website of the Year

(edited, curated, multiple contributors)

AllAboutJazz.com

DownBeat

The New York City Jazz Record

Blog of the Year

(posts by a single author or collective)

Chronicles, by Vinnie Sperrazza

The Honest Broker  by Ted Gioia

Jazz Wax by Marc Myers

Transitional Technology/Do The Math by Ethan Iverson

Book of the Year about Jazz::Biography or Autobiography

Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Jazz, Gerry Mulligan with Ken Poston (Rowan & Littlefield)

Cedar: The Life and Music of Cedar Walton, by Ben Markley (University of North Texas Press)

Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music, by Henry Threadgill with Brent Hayes Edwards (Penguin Random House)

Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music, by Ramsey Lewis with Aaron Cohen (Blackstone Publishing)

Goin’ Back To T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band, by Carmen Fields (University of Oklahoma Press)

Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America, by Stephanie Stein Crease (Oxford University Press)

Book of the Year about Jazz::History and Culture

The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles, by Steven L. Isoardi (Duke University Press)
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom, by Farah Jasmine Griffin (Norton)
Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals and Representations, by Walter van de Leur (Routledge)
Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good, by Con Chapman, (Equinox)
Tokyo Jazz Joints, Philip Arneill (Kehrer Verlag)
Waterfront, by Cisco Bradley (Duke University Press)
The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and the Sound of the Brooklyn

Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing 2023

Larry Blumenfeld continues to write regularly about jazz for The Wall Street Journal, as well as Tidal Magazine and The Daily Beast; he’s editor-at-large of Jazziz Magazine and editorial director for Chamber Music America, and received the Jazz Journalists Association’s Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Writing previously, in 2011.

Michelle Mercer, an NPR contributor for 20 years and author of books on Wayne Shorter and Joni Mitchell as well as articles and program notes, launched Call and Response, her Substack.

Marcus J. Moore, author of a book on Kendrick Lamar, co-leads the jazz-focused “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love…” series at The New York Times, where he also published features frequently in 2023, and in 2023 also was a columnist in Tidal.

Podcast of the Year

Burning Ambulance, by Phil Freeman

The Buzz: The JJA Podcast

Improv Exchange, by Leander Young

The Third Story with Leo Sidran

Willis Conover-Marian McParland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting

Matt Fleeger is long-time program director of KMHD, Portland and host of weekday program “New Jazz for Lunch,” having started in broadcasting at age 18.

Dick Golden, SiriusXM “Real Jazz” host, started as a teenager on a Portsmouth, NH station in the 1960s, and has spun the American songbook for decades

Sid Gribetz, has hosted “Jazz Profiles,” a Sunday afternoon five-hour deep dive into a single musician, as well as many other programs on WKCR in New York City for more than 40 years, during much of which he served as a New York State Family Court judge.

Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Career Excellence in Photography

Chuck Koton work samples

Adriana Mateo work samples

Marc PoKempner work samples

Luciano Rossetti work samples

Photo of the Year

Harrison Bankhead Memorial by Michael Jackson

Harrison Bankhead Memorial
by Michael Jackson

Susana Santos Silva by Luciano Rossetti

Susana Santos Silva
by Luciano Rossetti

Alexander von Schlippenbach by Frank Schindelbeck

Alexander von Schlippenbach
by Frank Schindelbeck

Cécile McLorin Salvant by Urszula Las

Cécile McLorin Salvant
by Urszula Las

Andrzej Swies by D. Kwapisiewicz

Andrzej Swies
by D. Kwapisiewicz

Pola Atmanska by Lech Basel

Pola Atmanska
by Lech Basel

Album Art of the Year

Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra and Space Trio at the Fault Zone Festival, painting by Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra and Space Trio at the Fault Zone Festival
painting by Roscoe Mitchell
(Wide Hive Records)

Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden, collage by Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts
Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden
collage by Matana Roberts
(Constellation)

Johan Lindstrom and Nortbotten Big Band art by Bogdan Lupescu

Johan Lindstrom and Nortbotten Big Band
art by Bogdan Lupescu
(Moserobie Music Production)

Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids, AfroFuturistic Dreams illustration by David Alabo

Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramid
AfroFuturistic Dreams
illustration by David Alabo
(Strut Records)

Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)), cover art by jaimie branch & John Herndon

Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War))
cover art by jaimie branch & John Herndon
(International Anthem)

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