List of 2010s JJA Awards winners

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The list of JJA Awards of the 2010s shows all the prizes ( Jazz Awards ) awarded by the American Jazz Journalists Association from 2010 onwards, divided into musician and jazz journalism categories. The 2012 JJA Awards were presented in June.

Category of jazz musicians

Price for lifetime achievement ( Lifetime Achievement )

Musician of the Year ( Musician of the Year )

Event Producer ( Events Producer )

  • 2010: George Wein , New Festival Productions LLC: CareFusion Jazz Festival New York, CareFusion Jazz Festival Newport, Newport Folk Festival

not awarded from 2011/2012

arranger

composer

Young Musician ( Up 'n' Coming Musician of the Year )

Album of the Year ( Album of the Year )

Reissue of the Year ( Reissue of the Year )

DVD of the year

  • 2010: Anita O'Day : The Life of a Jazz Singer , AOD Productions / Elan Entertainment

not awarded from 2011/2012

Label of the year

Small Ensemble ( Small Ensemble )

(from 2014 Midsize Ensemble )

Large ensemble ( Large Ensemble )

Trio or duo

Singer

singer

trumpeter

Trombonist

Woodwind ( Multi Reed Player of the Year )

Alto saxophonist

Tenor saxophonist

Baritone saxophonist

Winner: Gary Smulyan

Soprano saxophonist

flutist

Clarinetist

Winner: Anat Cohen

guitarist

Pianist ( Pianist of the Year )

Keyboard player

Bassist ( Bassist of the Year )

Electric bass player

Violinist (from 2013: violinist / cellist)

Percussionist

Marimba / vibraphonist

drummer

Brian Blade

Players rarely instruments used ( Player of the Year of Instruments Rare in Jazz )

Electronics (from 2014)

Jazz journalism categories ( Jazz Journalism Categories )

Prize for the life's work in jazz journalism ( Jazz Journalism Lifetime Achievement )

The Helen Dance – Robert Palmer Award for Review and Feature Writing

The Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Broadcasting

  • 2010: Josh Jackson, Host of The Checkout , Live at the Village Vanguard, WBGO
  • 2011: Phil Schaap
  • 2012: nominated: Josh Jackson , Jim Wilke , Linda Yohn ; Awardee: Josh Jackson
  • 2013: nominated: Gary Walker (WBGO), Jim Wilke (Jazz After Hours), Josh Jackson (The Checkout). Award winner: Jim Wilke
  • 2014: nominated: Dee Dee Bridgewater , Rusty Hassan , Josh Jackson . Awardees: Dee Dee Bridgewater, JazzSet
  • 2015: Christian McBride , host, Jazz Night in America from WBGO / NPR / Jazz at Lincoln Center
  • 2016: nominated Eric Jackson ( Eric in the Evening , WGBH Boston), Linda Yohn ( 89.1 Jazz , WEMU, Ypsilanti, Michigan), Mark Ruffin (director of SiriusXM, Real Jazz with Mark Ruffin ), Rusty Hassan ( Late Night Jazz , WPFW , Washington, DC). Winner: Linda Yohn WEMU
  • 2017: Mark Ruffin
  • 2018: Nominated: Sid Gribetz, Rusty Hassan, Neil Tesser, Kevin Whitehead. Winner: Neil Tesser
  • 2019: nominated: Arturo Gomez, KUVO Jazz, Denver CO; Susan Kennedy, "Big Band Hall of Fame," WMNR-Monroe, CT; Tom Reney, "Jazz a la Mode," WFCR, New England Public Radio; Awilda Rivera, WBGO Jazz, Newark, 1992-2019 Twitter. Winner: Tom Reney "Jazz a la Mode", WFCR, New England Public Radio

The Lona Foote – Bob Parent Award for Photography

Best magazine ( Best Periodical )

Best jazz website

Blog of the year

  • 2010: Rifftides, by Doug Ramsey
  • 2011: A Blog Supreme, by Patrick Jarenwattananon
  • 2012: nominated: A Blog Supreme (Patrick Jarenwattananon), Do The Math (Ethan Iverson), Jazz Wax (Marc Myers), Rifftides ( Doug Ramsey ); Award winner: Marc Myers' Jazz Wax
  • 2013: nominated: A Blog Supreme (Patrick Jarenwattananon, NPR Music), Do the Math ( Ethan Iverson ), JazzWax (Marc Myers), Rifftides ( Doug Ramsey ) Winner: A Blog Supreme
  • 2014: nominated: A Blog Supreme (Patrick Jarenwattananon, NPR Music), Do the Math (Ethan Iverson), JazzWax (Marc Myers), Rifftides (Doug Ramsey). Prize winner: Do the Math
  • 2015: nominated: A Blog Supreme (Patrick Jarenwattananon, NPR Music), Do the Math (Ethan Iverson), JazzWax (Marc Myers), Rifftides (Doug Ramsey).
  • 2016: nominated: Do the Math ( Ethan Iverson ), JazzWax (Marc Myers), Rifftides ( Doug Ramsey ). Winner: Do the Math (Ethan Iverson)
  • 2017: Ethan Iverson: Do the Math
  • 2018: Nominated: Do the Math ( Ethan Iverson , Jazz Wax (Marc Myers), Rifftides ( Doug Ramsey ), Jazz Lives (Michael Steinman)). Winner: Jazzwax (Marc Myers)
  • 2019: nominated: Jazz Profiles, by Steve Cerra Do The Math by Ethan Iverson ; Jazz Wax by Marc Myers; Rifftides by Doug Ramsey ; Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman. Award winner Do the Math by Ethan Iverson

Best book

  • 2010: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original - Robin DG Kelley (Free Press)
  • 2011: I Walked With Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath , by Jimmy Heath and Joseph McLaren (Temple University Press)
  • 2012: nominated: 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 (WW 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), 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
  • 2012: Winner: Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice (University of California Press)
  • 2013: nominated: Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland (St. Martin's Press), by Paul de Barros; The Jazz Standards: A Guide to Repertoire (Oxford University Press), by Ted Gioia; The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (Scarecrow Press), by Greg Akkerman; Wail: The Life of Bud Powell (Bop Changes), by Peter Pullman; What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist (Scarecrow Press), by Dave Liebman and Lewis Porter ; Why Jazz Happened (University of California Press), by Marc Myers
    • Prize winner 2013: Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland (St. Martin's Press), by Paul de Barros
  • 2014: nominated: Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Gotham), by Terry Teachout; Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (Harper), by Stanley Crouch; Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton (Berklee Press), by Gary Burton with Neil Tesser. Award Winner: Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton by Gary Burton
  • 2016: nominated: Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth (Viking / Penguin Publishing Company) by John Szwed; Letters to Yeyito - Lessons from a Life In Music (Restless Books), by Paquito D'Rivera ; Microgroove: Forays into Other Music (Duke University Press), by John Corbett. Winner:
  • 2017: Better Git It In Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus (University of California Press) by Krin Gabbard
  • 2018: Nominated: Elaine M. Hayes, Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan (Ecco); Fred Hersch, Good Things Happen Slowly (Crown Archetype); Monika Herzig, Experiencing Chick Corea (Rowan & Littlefield Publishers);

Dave Lisik and Eric Allen, 50 Years at the Village Vanguard: Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Skydeck Music); Bob Porter, Soul Jazz: Jazz in the Black Community, 1945-1975 (Xlibris). Winner: Good Things Happen Slowly (Crown Archetype) by Fred Hersch

  • 2019: nominated: Nate Chinen, Playing The Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Pantheon); Gary Giddins , Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946 (Little, Brown); Maxine Gordon , Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon (University of California Press); Eugene Marlow , Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression (University Press of Mississippi); Francesco Martinelli , The History of European Jazz (Equinox). Award winner: Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon.

Best liner notes

  • 2010:
  • 2011: Steven Lasker - The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (Mosaic)
  • 2012: nominated: 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: 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 (Fantasy); Marc Myers: Wes 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 ( RogueArt ); 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); Quintero-Rivera group: Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro - The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music); Christian Broecking : Alexander von Schlippenbach & Manfred Schoof : Blue Hawk (jazz workshop)
  • 2012: Winner: Francis Davis, Sonny Rollins' Road Show, Vol. 2 (Doxy Records)
  • 2013 not awarded
  • 2015: nominated: John Coltrane - Offering: Live at Temple University (Resonance) by Ashley Kahn, Louis Armstrong & The All-Stars - The Columbia & RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic), by Ricky Riccardi, Isham Jones - Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides (Archeophone Records) by David Sager, Rosemary Clooney - CBS Radio Recordings 1955-61 (Mosaic) by James Gavin
  • not awarded as of 2016

Best photo of the year

Video of the Year ( Short Form Video of the Year )

  • 2011: Sonny Rollins: Getting It Back Together - Bret Primack (Producer / Director)
  • 2012: Victory! - The Making of JD Allen's Album by Mario Tahi Lathan
  • 2013: nominated: What Is Scatting by Brandon Bain, Capsulicity; Thelonious Monk Institute 25th Anniversary and Tribute to Aretha Franklin Trailer by Kenneth K. Martinez Burgmaier, JazzAlley.tv .; Tarbaby - Fanon by Jason Fifield, Slife Productions. Winner: Tarbaby Fanon by Jason Fifield, Slife Productions
  • 2014: nominated: Ain't Misbehavin ' "- Christian Sands + Kris Bowers (What Is Prepared Piano?) By Brandon Bain; Capital Youth Jazz Orchestra - In the Making by Brett Delmage; ... the making of ZEB'S House by Adriana Mateo -Saul Zebulon; Joanna Pascale - The End of Loews by Jason Fifield; Gary Bartz Talks About Drug Use Among Jazz Greats by John Moultrie irockjazzmusictv. Winner: Gary Bartz Talks About Drug Use Among Jazz Greats by John Moultrie irockjazzmusictv
  • no longer awarded as of 2015

Jazz Album Art of the Year

  • 2016: Kamasi Washington - The Epic (Brainfeeder, photo by Mike Park)
  • 2017: David Cowles: Cover Art for Bill Charlap Trio ( Notes from New York , Impulse / Verve)
  • 2018: Simon Grendene: Cover Art for Morphogenesis by Steve Coleman ’s Natal Eclipse ( Pi Recordings )
  • 2019: nominated: MAT JODRELL - ECHOES OF HARLEM (NICHOLAS); JAMES BRANDON LEWIS / CHAD TAYLOR - RADIANT IMPRINTS (OFF RECORD); MAKAYA MCCRAVEN - UNIVERSAL BEINGS (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM); Jamie Saft - Solo A Genova (RareNoise); Rafal Sarnecki - Climbing Trees (Outside In Music); David S. Ware Trio - The Balance (AUM Fidelity). Awardee: Charles Henry Alston

for Echoes of Harlem by Mat Jodrell (Nicholas Records).

A Team Awards (for activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz)

  • 2010: not awarded
  • 2011: Omrao Brown, Peggy Cafritz, John Gilbreath, Dr. Maitreya Padukone, Ed Reed, Mike Reed, Roger Spencer, Lori Mechem, Elynor Walcott and sons Paul, Frank and Lloyd Poindexter
  • 2012
  • 2013 not awarded

Jazz Heroes

See also

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ Jazz Awards 2000s Winners
  2. ↑ The categories electric bass musician, Latin album of the year and the sub-category: re-release / box set of the year, which were still awarded in 2009, will no longer be available from 2010.
  3. ↑ Nominations for the JJA Awards 2012
  4. ↑ JJA awards / 2012
  5. ^ Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2013 Award Nominees - Abrams, Tyner, Weston and Shorter vie for Lifetime Achievement nod
  6. ^ Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2013 Journalism and Media Awards in JazzTimes
  7. ↑ http://www.jjajazzawards.org/p/2014-nominees.html
  8. ↑ a b c d e f http://news.jazzjournalists.org/2015/05/2015-jja-jazz-awards-honor-musical-excellence/
  9. ↑ JJA Nominations 2016 in Rifftides
  10. ↑ JJJ Awards Winner 2016
  11. ↑ 2017 JJA Jazz Awards for Musical Achievement
  12. ↑ 2019 NOMINEES FOR JAZZ MUSIC / RECORDING AWARDS
  13. ↑ JJA nominations 2013
  14. ↑ http://www.jjajazzawards.org/2014/04/2014-jja-jazz-awards-winners-music.html
  15. ↑ http://www.jjajazzawards.org/p/nominees-2016.html
  16. ↑ Nominations for the JJA Awards 2012
  17. ↑ Nominations for the JJA Awards 2012
  18. ↑ Nominations for the JJA Awards 2012