Лауреаты Winners in Jazz Journalism 2023

Congratulations to all the 2023 winners of the 28th 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

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism

ASHLEY KAHN

Music historian, journalist, educator, producer

Photo by Marc PoKempner

Nominees: Nate Chinen, Will Friedwald, Gene Seymour

Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing in 2022

AIDAN LEVY

Photo by Jahsie Ault

Nominees: Nate Chinen, The Gig, WRTI editorial director; Ted Gioia, The Honest Broker

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Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Career Achievement in Broadcasting

BOB PERKINS

WRTI

Photo by Gary Horn

Nominee: Jesse “Chuy” Varela (KSCM), Lynn Darroch (KMHD), Leslie Keros (WDCB)

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Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Career Achievement in Photography

LAUREN DEUTSCH

Nominees: Adriana Mateo, Alan Nahigian, Luciano Rossetti, Robert Sutherland-Cohen

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Publication/Website of the Year

DOWNBEAT Magazine

Nominees: JazzTimes, Jazziz, The New York City Jazz Record, The Syncopated Times

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Blog of the Year

JAZZ BEYOND JAZZ

By Howard Mandel

Photo by Lourdes Delgado

Nominees: Jazz Wax by Marc Myers, Transitional Technology/Do The Math by Ethan Iverson, The Honest Broker by Ted Gioia, FreeJazzBlog by The Free Jazz Collective

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Biography/Autobiography of the Year

SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF SONNY ROLLINS

by Aidan Levy (Hachette)

Nominees: Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler, by Richard Koloda (Jawbone Press);  Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music, by Philip Watson (Faber Books); Of Note: A Memoir of Jazz, Tics and Survival, by Michael Wolff (Redwood Publishing)

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Book of the Year About Jazz: History, Criticism and Culture

AIN'T BUT A FEW OF US: BLACK MUSIC WRITERS TELL THEIR STORY

Willard Jenkins, editor (Duke University Press)

Nominees: The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender, by James Reddan, Monika Herzig, Michael Kahr (Routledge); Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900 – 1960, by Alan John Ainsworth, (Intellect Books); Becoming the Instrument: Lessons on Self-Mastery From Music To Life by Kenny Werner (Sweet Lo Press)

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Podcast of the Year

THE BUZZ: THE JJA PODCAST

Nominees: All That’s Jazz with Allen Scott, The Third Story by Leo Sidran

visit The Buzz: JJA Podcast website

Live-Stream Producer of the Year

EMMET COHEN

LIVE FROM EMMET’S PLACE

Nominees: Live from the SFJazz Center, Constellation Chicago, Fulton Street Collective (Chicago)

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Documentary of the Year About Jazz

RON CARTER: FINDING THE RIGHT NOTES

Peter Schnall, Partisan Pictures

Nominees: Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues, Sacha Jenkins, Apple Original Films; Hargrove, Eliane Henri, Poplife Productions;  Take Me to the River New Orleans, Martin Shore, Social Capital Films

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Photo of the Year

William Parker by LAUREN DEUTSCH

Chicago Jazz Festival, USA

Nominees: Billy Cobham at Blue Note Milano Jazz Club, by Santa Istvan Csaba (Hungary); Bojan Z et al at Rendez vous de l’Erdre festival in Nantes, by Didier Jallais (France); Chien Chien Lu at Duc des Lombards, Jazz Club, by Philippe Lévy-Stab (France); Mark Whitfield, Emmet Cohen & Kyle Poole at Northwest Jazz Festival in Lewiston, New York, by John Zuffoletto (USA); Muhammad Dawjee and the students of the Morris Isaacson Centre for Music of Soweto at the PNYH Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, by Adrien H. Tillmann (USA); Richard Bona at Love Polish Jazz Festival, by Dariusz Kwapisiewicz (Poland)

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Album Art of the Year

AMARYLLIS & BELLADONNA

Mary Halvorson (Nonesuch), Artwork by DM Stith

Nominees: Jackpot, Brian Charette (Cellar Music), by Takao Fujioka; The Artist, John Lee (Cellar Live), by Takao Fujioka; Seven Whites, Peter Ehwald/Stefan Schultze/Tom Rainey (Jazzwerkstatt), by Helge Lieberg/cover design by Herbert Weisrock; Barionda, Helga Plankensteiner (Jazzwerkstatt), by Helge Leiberg; Six Feet Apart, Scott Feiner/Alex Taub, by Marcelo Gluz