From president at jazzjournalists.org Sun Jun 6 20:08:13 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:08:13 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] Jazz Awards tix & parties Message-ID: Dear JJA members -- The votes are in, the sponsors lined-up, the bands hired, the food ordered, the program book on its way -- and the 14th annual JJA Jazz Awards will be celebrated at City Winery, New York City and at satellite parties around the US -- maybe the world! -- on June 14, starting at 3:30 Eastern Daylight Time, with streaming live video at www.JJAJazzAwards.org. There's still time to buy tickets for the NYC event -- $75 to JJA members to attend both the ceremony (at which this year's recipients of Jazz Awards will be announced, "A Team" and Jazz Heroes introduced) and the reception starting at 5 pm, with food, drink, party favors and four bands performing. Tickets to the entire event cost the general public $150, but $75 tickets are available all who just want to attend the reception. All ticket choices can be accessed via "Get Tickets" at JJAJazzAwards.org. If you're not in NYC, you can see the streaming video at JJAJazzAwards, and twitter messages to us using the #jjajazzawards tag -- we hope to read them from the stage. Better still, you can go to one of the JJA's satellite parties, which are free everywhere: at the Jazzschool in Berkeley CA, where Jazz Hero Khalil Shaheed will be in attendance; at Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, at the home of Mikayla and Micheal GIlbreath in Scottsdale Arizona ( email m.gilbreath at cox.net for info on the place and how to get there), at the Triple Stage in Seattle (thanks to Earshot Jazz -- JJA members Doug Ramsey, Tom Conrad and Lloyd Peterson will be there), in Chicago at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase (jazzshowcase at jazzshowcase.com for info). There are still possibilities of having parties in Los Angeles, Portland Oregon, Boston and Washington DC -- if a JJA member or team of JJA members want to take on the last minute arrangements. Parties can be simple, just a few jazz friends sitting around talking about the state of things, glancing when they want to at a computer screen where the Jazz Awards will be streaming -- but let us know they're happening and we can give you specifics on how to get your photos from your event up on our flickr site, among other things. Get back to me and/or Joanne Robinson Hill, cc'd here as JazzFund at verizon.net -- she's helping us keep track of all such activities. Thanks for voting -- for maintaining andrenewing memberships --- for your ongoing interests in the JJA. The Awards are growing this year, leading we hope to success in other programs of the JJA which are intended to benefit all members. Go to JJAJazzAwards.org, also see JJANews.org, don't forget Jazzhouse.org, be in touch -- (congratulations to JJA Vice president Yvonne Ervin on her marriage next week can be sent to: VP at Jazzjournalists.org. Pres Howard From president at jazzjournalists.org Mon Jun 7 18:42:54 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:42:54 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] to jja photographers, especially Message-ID: >From JJA webadministrator JA Kawell: JJA PHOTOGRAPHERS Are you going to the JJA Jazz Awards gala or a satellite party? Are you planning to take photos? Would you like to distribute those photos to interested editors--and perhaps sell them? The JJA has just created a Flickr Group "Pool" where you can upload your Jazz Awards photos. We'll include a link to the "Pool" in press releases and other promotion announcing the winners-- that way editors and others can see your photos and contact you if they are interested in using them. Here's what you need to do to participate: - Be a current JJA member in good standing - Have your own Flickr account (Set one up at http://www.flickr.com if you don't have one. They are free-- the only annoying part is that you also need to create a Yahoo account) - Send the address connected to your account to admin at jazzjournalists.org and say you want to join the Awards photo pool - You'll receive an invitation to the Group-- login to your Flickr account and then click on the link in the invitation to accept. - If you've never uploaded photos to Flickr, familiarize yourself with how to upload, how to put captions and other info on the photos, and how to share photos to the group. On the day of the Awards, you'll want to upload your photos to your Flickr account and share them with the group as soon as possible. The press release with the winners names will be released immediately following the awards presentation, and editors looking for photos will need them quickly. This isn't just for NYC photographers-- editors in locales where satellite parties are being held may want pictures with a local angle. BE SURE TO PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND/OR PHONE # PROMINENTLY IN THE CAPTION SO THAT INTERESTED USERS CAN EASILY CONTACT YOU. YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING YOUR OWN DEALS WITH USERS. THE JJA CANNOT ACT AS AN INTERMEDIARY OR SALES AGENT, WE ARE PROVIDING THE POOL SIMPLY TO GIVE YOUR PHOTOS MORE PROMINENT DISPLAY. P.S. If you'd rather take simple cell phone photos and upload them to Twitter during the Awards parties, that would be great too. From david at adlermusic.com Tue Jun 15 20:58:39 2010 From: david at adlermusic.com (David R. Adler) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:58:39 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] New Member Updates editor - take note! Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Great to see many of you at yesterday's Jazz Awards - thanks for making the event(s) a success! Please watch JJANews.org for additional coverage, reactions, photos, etc., and please don't hesitate to chime in yourself (I'm at editor at jazzjournalists.org). But mainly, I'm writing to let you know that we have a new Member Updates editor for JJA News. From this point forward you'll be sending your Member Updates (formerly known as "News of Members") to Michael J. West, at this email address: membernews at jazzjournalists.org In a previous message I stated that we'd no longer be imposing copy deadlines for the Member Updates column. But on reflection, it seems best to run these columns about once a month, and we have to put the deadline somewhere. So here it is: **Please send your Member Updates to Michael J. West at membernews at jazzjournalists.org within the next week.** Reminder: A Member Update is one brief paragraph beginning with your name, just as you see here: http://news.jazzjournalists.org/2010/05/member-updates-may-2010/ In addition, if you are a new JJA member, please send a single-sentence New Member bio to membernews at jazzjournalists.org, following precisely the format you see on this page: http://news.jazzjournalists.org/2010/05/new-members-may-2010/ Thanks for your assistance and enjoy the start of summer! Very best, David R. Adler Editor, JJA News editor at jazzjournalists.org