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Announcing: The Jazz Journalists Association's 12th annual Jazz Awards
Recognizing excellence in 41 categories of music-making, presentation, production and jazz journalism
Party on Wednesday, June 18, 3 to 6 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 E. 27th St., New York City

The Jazz Journalists Association — some 450 writers, photographers, broadcasters and new media entrepreneurs mostly in the US and Canada but also worldwide and on the Internet — believes professional, independent jazz journalism is the most important means of promoting jazz of every genre on record or in performance to general audiences via print, broadcast, the web and public discussions. To advance this belief, the JJA celebrates winners of the 2008 Jazz Awards at a cocktail luncheon at the Jazz Standard, 116 27th St. in New York City, on Wednesday, June 18 from 3 to 6 p.m.

Finalist nominees for the JJA's12th annual Awards recognizing excellence in 41 categories of jazz music and jazz journalism are selected by professional (as opposed to student or support) members of the JJA, who may submit up to five nominations in each category. Those nominees accumulating the most votes are finalists — voted upon again by the JJA's professional members to determine individual representative recipients — Winners!

• Groups and Individuals: Buy tickets here for the Jazz Awards party
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• List of Finalists

• Vol. 19, No. 1 – Spring 2008 (membership and login required)
• Vol. 18, No. 4 – Winter 2008 (free, no login)

• Larry Blumenfeld: Dreaming Big
• Lyn Horton: Questions From Across The Ocean
• Larry Blumenfeld: Maine Attraction
• Lyn Horton: Ratliff on a Roller-Coaster Ride
• Mike Zwerin: New Releases
• Larry Blumenfeld: Ritual Matters
• Larry Blumenfeld: To America, and Blue Note
• Lyn Horton: Tackling the Deepest Parts of Being
• Howard Mandel: Splendors of Brooklyn
• Larry Blumenfeld: How Herbie Learned the Lyrics

• Drouot reviews Michele Rosewoman's Inside Out
• New Orleans: rebuilding the foundation - Larry Blumenfeld
• Lloyd Peterson talks with George Lewis
• Bob Porter on Tom Lord's discography
• Why write on free jazz ? - Lyn Horton + 5 replies, latest March 10
• In Montréal - Arnold J. Smith
• Under/Overrated? In a Spanish light - Eduardo Hojman + 5 replies, latest March 20

Read about the Jazz Journalists Association's participation in the first international gathering of jazz journalists, co-presented by the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University.

Our annual best-of compilation from our members, also the first use of our new Jazzhouse.org wiki

David Adler	Paul Blair	Philip Booth	Stuart Broomer
Andrea Canter	Alan Chase	Thomas Conrad	Francis Davis
Philip DiPietro	Laurence Donohue-Greene	Alain Drouot	Alex Dutilh
Ken Dryden	Jerry D'Souza	Jim Eigo	Steve Feeney
Ken Franckling	David Franklin	Andrew Gilbert	James Hale
Rusty Hassan	Andrey Henkin	Geoffrey Himes	Rob Hoff
Lyn Horton	Fred Kaplan	Elzy Kolb	Kevin Lynch
Howard Mandel	John Matouk	John McDonough	Bill Milkowski
Rahsaan Clark Morris	Bob Porter	Bob Protzman	Bob Putignano
Doug Ramsey	Gary Stager	W. Royal Stokes	Laurence Svirchev
Ron Sweetman	John Szwed	Neil Tesser	Antonio Terzo
Michael J. West

• Detroit Jazz Festival, August 31 - September 3, 2007 - C. Andrew Hovan
• Jazz Improv Live 2007 - Marek Lazarski
• 2007 Vision Quest - Lyn Horton
• 2007 Toronto Jazz Festival - Marek Lazarsky
• 2007 JJA Jazz Awards - Enid Farber
• IAJE 2007 - C. Andrew Hovan
• IAJE 2007 - Enid Farber
• Alice Coltrane / Michael Brecker, Remembered - Enid Farber
• Guidelines for Music Photographers

• Keynote by Norman Lear on role of critics + 8 replies, latest July 25

• Review and purchase books by JJA member-authors, All Music Guide through Zwerin

• Stuff of interest to members and those considering membership.

• List of Winners

Coverage

• New Music Box

Here are the photo of the year entries.