2012 JJA Jazz Awards Jazz Journalists Association announces nominees for 16th
Annual JJA Jazz Awards
Finalist nominees for the
16th
annual Jazz Awards presented by the Jazz Journalists Association have been
announced at www.JJAJazzAwards.org.
The nominations demonstrate the rich diversity of music that may have been
overlooked by mainstream media and other music industry-generated Awards programs.
Iconic veteran instrumentalists including Sonny Rollins, Keith Jarrett, Phil Woods
Lee Konitz, Gary Burton, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes, Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny and
John Scofield are among the nominees who will vie for votes with newly emerged talents
such as trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, pianist Craig Taborn, tenor saxophonist J.D.
Allen, guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Esperanza Spalding, vibist Warren Wolf
and drummer Eric Harland in some of the 40 categories celebrating excellence in
jazz and jazz journalism. Winners of the Jazz Awards will be selected from the nearly
200 nominees through voting by the JJA's international membership of writers, photographers,
broadcasters and new media producers professionally involved with jazz. Awards are
for accomplishments and productions from calendar year 2011, except in two categories
for Lifetime Achievement,
The JJA Jazz Awards for journalists themselves recognize a distinguished field.
Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism nominees are Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch,
Will Friedwald, Willard Jenkins and Neil Tesser – authors of books, articles and
record liner notes who have doubled as broadcasters, educators and performers. Separate
honors will be conferred for writing, broadcasting, photography, a Photo of the
Year and Short Form Jazz News Video.
The 2012 JJA Jazz Awards' nominees are being announced on Jazz Day, as designated
by the U.S. Council of Mayors. The JJA, a non-profit professional association, is
also marking Jazz Day with the launch of an international "Blogathon" based on the
theme of "jazz in my community." Videos, photos and text reports from jazz scenes
in Kuwait, Scandinavia and Italy, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul,
Cambridge MA and Spartanburg SC scenes are already posted. More will be added throughout
the month of April at http://wp.me/PU57D-Or
Winners of the 2012 JJA Jazz Awards will be announced during the month of June,
leading up to announcement of Lifetime Achievement Awards winners, Musician of the
Year, Record of the Year, Male and Female Jazz Vocalists of the Year at a cocktail
party to be held at the Blue Note Jazz Club, New York City, on June 20, 4 to 6 pm.
Information on ticket sales for that event will be posted at
JJAJazzAwards.org
Muhal Richard Abrams
Ron Carter
Wayne Shorter
Horace Silver
2) Musician of the Year
Ambrose Akinmusire
Vijay Iyer
Joe Lovano
Christian McBride
Sonny Rollins
3) Composer/Arranger of the Year
John Hollenbeck
Guillermo Klein
Vince Mendoza
Maria Schneider
4) Up and Coming Artist of the Year
Chris Dingman
Tyshawn Sorey
Ben Williams
Warren Wolf
5) Record of the Year
James Farm (Nonesuch)
Keith Jarrett, Rio (ECM)
Christian McBride's Big Band, The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue Records)
Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy Records)
Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform Records)
Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
Miguel Zenon, Alma Adentro – The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
6) Best Historical or Boxed Set
Miles Davis, Bootleg Sessions, Vol 1, Quintet Live in Europe 1967 (Columbia
Legacy)
Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (Mbira/Freedom-International Phonograph)
Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (RCA Victor-International Phonograph)
Roscoe Mitchell, Before There Was Sound (Nessa) The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (Mosaic)
7) Label of the Year
Clean Feed
ECM
Pi Records
Sunnyside Records
8) Large Ensemble
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Maria Schneider Orchestra
Mingus Big Band
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
9) Small Ensemble
James Farm
Jason Moran & Bandwagon
Joe Lovano Us Five
SFJazz Collective
10) Male Singer of the Year
Freddy Cole
Kurt Elling
Giacomo Gates
Gregory Porter
11) Female Singer of the Year
Karrin Allyson
Rene Marie
Gretchen Parlato
Tierney Sutton
12) Trumpeter of the Year
Ambrose Akinmusire
Tom Harrell
Brian Lynch
Wadada Leo Smith
13) Trombonist of the Year
Steve Davis
Robin Eubanks
Wycliffe Gordon
Steve Turre
14) Multi-reeds Player of the Year
James Carter
Anat Cohen
Roscoe Mitchell
Ted Nash
Scott Robinson
15) Alto Saxophonist of the Year
Lee Konitz
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Phil Woods
Miguel Zenon
16) Tenor Saxophonist of the Year
J.D. Allen
Joe Lovano
Chris Potter
Sonny Rollins
17) Baritone Saxophonist of the Year
James Carter
Ronnie Cuber
Claire Daly
Gary Smulyan
18) Soprano Saxophonist of the Year
Jane Ira Bloom
Dave Liebman
Branford Marsalis
Wayne Shorter
19) Flutist of the Year
Jamie Baum
Nicole Mitchell
Lew Tabackin
20) Clarinetist of the Year
Don Byron
Evan Christopher
Anat Cohen
Ken Peplowski
21) Guitarist of the Year
Mary Halvorson
Bill Frisell
Pat Metheny
John Scofield
22) Pianist of the Year
Vijay Iyer
Keith Jarrett
Matthew Shipp
Craig Taborn
23) Keyboards Player of the Year
Joey DeFrancesco
Larry Goldings
Mike LeDonne
Gary Versace
24) Bassist of the Year
Ben Allison
Ron Carter
Christian McBride
William Parker
Esperanza Spalding
25) Violinist/Violist/Cellist of the Year
Billy Bang
Regina Carter
Mark Feldman
Jenny Scheinman
26) Percussionist of the Year
Cyro Baptista
Hamid Drake
Sammy Figueroa
Marilyn Mazur
Adam Rudolph
Poncho Sanchez
27) Mallets Instrumentalist of the Year
Gary Burton
Stefon Harris
Joe Locke
Warren Wolf
28) Traps Drummer of the Year
Jack DeJohnette
Eric Harland
Roy Haynes
Paul Motian
Matt Wilson
29) Player of Instruments Rare in Jazz
Edmar Castaneda, harp
Gregoire Maret, harmonica
Toots Thielemans, harmonica
Gary Versace, accordion
Nominees For Jazz Journalism Awards
30) Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism
Amiri Baraka is the author of Blues People: Negro Music in White America
(1963), Black Music (1968), The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues (1987), Digging:
The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (2010) and other books of essays,
poems, drama, fiction and criticism. His awards and honors include an Off-Broadway
Theater Award (Obie), the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, the James Weldon
Johnson Medal for Contributions to the Arts, and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught at Yale University and Columbia
University, is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
and was the Poet Laureate of New Jersey. He has issued recordings of his work, and
has performed with William Parker's Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield project.
Stanley Crouch is the author of the essay collections Considering Genius:
Writings on Jazz (2007), Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
and The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of
It, 1990-1994, as well as the novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome (2004) and Kansas
City Lightning: The Life and Times of Young Charlie Parker (2009). Crouch is a syndicated
columnist for the New York Daily News, has written many album liner notes, and has
published in the Village Voice, Newsweek, The New Yorker and JazzTimes. He was an
historical adviser for Ken Burns' 2001 PBS documentary Jazz and has been a close
consultant to Wynton Marsalis. A former drummer and music programmer at the Tin
Palace in New York City, Crouch is currently president of the Louis Armstrong Educational
Foundation.
Will Friedwald writes about jazz and nightlife for The Wall Street Journal.
He has also written for JazzTimes, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Newsday,
The New York Observer, The New York Sun, Entertainment Weekly, Oxford American,
New York, Mojo, BBC Music Magazine, Stereo Review, Fi(Delity), and other music and
film journals. He is the author of eight books on music and popular culture, including
Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art (1997), Stardust Melodies: A Biography
of 12 of America's Most Popular Songs (2004), Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices
From Bessie Smith To Bebop And Beyond (1996), and A Biographical Guide to the Great
Jazz and Pop Singers (winner of a 2011 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award). Friedwald has
written liner notes for many recordings and has been a Grammy nominee for several
of these.
Willard Jenkins has written for JazzTimes, DownBeat, Cadence, Jazz Notes,
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Cleveland Jazz Report, City Pages (Minneapolis-St.
Paul), Twin Cities Reader, Inside Arts, Schwann Spectrum, Schwann Opus, Jazz Forum,
The Antioch Review, Attache, Jazz Education Journal, All About Jazz, Amazon.com,
NPRJazz.org, NetNoir.com, Impact247.com, Africana.com, and currently blogs at The
Independent Ear (www.openskyjazz.com).
He is the author of Insights on Jazz (1988), contributor of two chapters to Ain't
Nothing Like The Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment
(2010) and a chapter of David Baker: A Legacy in Music (2011), co-author of African
Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston (2010), and editor of Lost Jazz Shrines
(1988). As a broadcaster, his affiliations have included WKSU (Kent, Ohio), WABQ
(Painesville, Ohio), WERE (Cleveland, Ohio), KFAI (Twin Cities), WWOZ (New Orleans),
XM Satellite Radio, and Black Entertainment Television. He currently hosts his "Ancient
Future" radio show on WPFW (Washington, DC). As director of the National Jazz Service
Organization, he instituted the meeting in 1987 that resulted in the formation of
the Jazz Journalists Association, and he is a former vice-president of the JJA.
Neil Tesser is the author of The Playboy Guide To Jazz (1998) and has written
more than 300 sets of liner notes. He has been a jazz columnist for Playboy magazine
and Jazziz, jazz critic for USA Today, the Chicago Sun‑Times and the Chicago Reader,
contributor to Rolling Stone and the New York Times (Chicago edition), broadcaster
on WBEZ-FM (Chicago), co-host of Listen Here! (a nationally syndicated program),
and an associate editor of DownBeat. He currently reports regularly on jazz on Examiner.com.
31) The Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award For Writing in the Year 2011
Larry Blumenfeld is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and
the Village Voice, editor-at-large and columnist for Jazziz, Inside Arts, Truthdig.com
and ListenGood. He has also published in the New York Times, Salon and Entertainment
Weekly, had an essay inBest Music Writing 2008, and has written CD liner notes.
He's been a Katrina Media Fellow with the Open Society Institute, and a National
Arts Journalism Program fellow
Nate Chinen writes for the New York Times and JazzTimes and was published
in Best Music Writing of 2011. He is the co-author of George Wein's autobiography
Myself Among Others: A Life In Music (2004), and blogs at The Gig. He has previously
won the JJA's Dance-Palmer Award six times.
Marc Myers writes on jazz for The Wall Street Journal and blogs daily at
JazzWax.com, on which he has conducted more than 300 multi-part interviews with
jazz, rock, and R&B musicians and has posted commentary on rare and contemporary
recordings. JazzWax is syndicated by Jazz.FM91 (Toronto) and by All About Jazz.
32) The Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Broadcasting
Josh Jackson is Special Projects Producer/Host of The Checkout on WBGO-FM,
is heard on "Live at the Village Vanguard" and hosts "The Checkout: Live at 92Y
Tribeca" and "The Checkout: Live at Berklee." He won the JJA's Conover-McPartland
Award in 2010.
Jim Wilke who is Seattle-based, has been on the air for 55 years hosting
his jazz radio shows, including Jazz After Hours on Public Radio International (70
stations) since 1984 and Jazz Northwest on KPLU-FM since 1988. He has been a location
recordist since 1962 (Ellington, Coltrane, MJQ, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver,
etc.) and has conducted many radio interviews. He has been named in the JazzTimes
Readers Poll and the JazzTimes Critics Poll and has been nominated for the Conover-McPartland
Award in multiple years.
Linda Yohn is Music Director of WEMU-FM (Ypsilanti, Michigan) and host of
its 89.1 Jazz show (9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Monday-Friday), and co-producer, writer,
and host of The Best of the Detroit Jazz Festival, a radio series on KIOS-FM (Omaha).
She has been a recipient of JazzWeek's Major Market Programmer Award for 2009‑2011
and the Duke Dubois Jazz Humanitarian Award in 2006. She is on the board of the
Southeastern Michigan Jazz Association. Under her direction, WEMU was cited as Outstanding
Local Music Station by AnnArbor.com in 2012 and received the Excellence in Local
Music Programming award from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters in 2012. She
has been nominated multiple times for the Conover-McPartland Award.
33)The Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Photography
Michael Jackson is a Chicago-based photographer and writer who contributes
to DownBeat, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader and Jazzwise (UK), among other publications.
He is a member of the Chicago Photography Collective and has been involved in about
20 photography shows during the last couple of years at its gallery, 108 North State
Street. In 2011 he had a solo show of his jazz photographs at Gallery 175, Chicago.
Fran Kaufman's photographs have appeared on the WBGO-FM blog and have been
published in Hot House, Jersey Jazz Journal and DownBeat. She has had exhibitions
at New York's Abrons Art Center, the WBGO Gallery, the Brooklyn Academy of Music
(BAM) and the Oregon Jewish Museum. This year (2012) she has organized nominations
and submissions for the JJA's Photo of the Year Award.
Herb Snitzer, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, is the author of Glorious
Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir (2011). Many of his photographs are collected in
Jazz: A Visual Journey (1985) and Photographs from the Last Years of Metronome (2008).
Over nearly 50 years, Snitzer has published photographs in DownBeat, Metronome,
Life, many other national magazines and newspapers and on hundreds of CD and LP
covers. He has had exhibitions at galleries in Boston, St. Louis, Portland (Oregon)
and Los Angeles; his work is in collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art,
the Museum of The City of New York, the New York Public Library, the Tampa Museum
of Art, Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the Bill
Cosby Collection in Amherst, Massachusetts.
34) Print Periodical of the Year
DownBeat
JazzTimes
Jazziz
The New York City Jazz Record
"A Blog Supreme" (Patrick Jarenwattananon)
(Ethan Iverson)
(Marc Myers)
(Doug Ramsey)
37) Best Book About Jazz of the Year
Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice (University of California
Press), by Tad Hershorn Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness (W.W. Norton & Company),
by David Kastin Here and Now! The Autobiography of Pat Martino (Backbeat Books), by Pat Martino
with Bill Milkowski Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones (University of Minnesota
Press), as told to Albert Murray, edited by Paul Devlin, afterword by Phil Schaap Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews (Chicago Review Press),
edited by Chris DeVito Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane (Wesleyan), by Franya J. Berkman
38) Best Liner Notes of the Year
Writers may submit their own Liner Notes for consideration in this category; links
are to the Liner Note text as submitted by the authors.
Eddie Determeyer: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (Mosaic Records)
Francis Davis: Sonny Rollins Road Show, Vol. 2 (Doxy Records)
Francis Davis: Allen Lowe, Blues and the Empirical Truth (Music and Arts)
John Edward Hasse, et al.: Jazz: Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (Smithsonian/Folkways)
Tommy Vig: The Tommy Vig Orchestra: Welcome to Hungary! (Klasszikus Jazz Records)
Neil Tesser: Kevin Kizer: Aspects (Blujazz Records)
Neil Tesser: Eric Alexander: Don't Follow the Crowd (HighNote)
Neil Tesser: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Ugetsu, Ugetsu (Fantasy)
Marc Myers: Montgomery: Movin', The Complete Verve Recordings (Hip-O Select)
Marc Myers: Ella in Japan (Hip-O Select)
Kevin Whitehead: Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orch. - Trilogy (Mosaic Select)
Kenny Washington: The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions (Mosaic Records)
Howard Mandel: The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest (Rogue Art)
Doug Ramsey: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings of the Modern Jazz Quartet
(Mosaic Records)
Doug Ramsey: Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (Entertainment One Music)
A.G. Quintero-Rivera: Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro - The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis
Music)
Christian Broecking: Alexander von Schlippenbach and Manfred Schoof: Blue Hawk (Jazzwerkstatt)
39) Photo of the Year
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