From president at jazzjournalists.org Wed May 5 16:03:33 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:03:33 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] JJA Jazz Award voting begins! Tickets go on sale! Message-ID: Hey JJA members -- the final ballot to choose recipients of the 2010 JJA Jazz Awards is now up at Jazzhouse.org -- so are the submissions for Photo of the Jazz, and the semi-finalist ballot for that category -- and tickets to the Awards gala on Monday, June 14, from 3:30 to 7 at City Winery, New York City, are now on sale -- go to Jazzhouse and hit the button "Get Tickets" to make your reservations. (You'll see the link for the ballots in red at the bottom of the box that reads "2010 Jazz Awards"). Members in good standing of the JJA can buy up to two tickets for $75 each to participate in the Awards presentations and "A Team" inductions, and enjoy the beer, wine, food and music reception immediately following. Tickets to the Awards and reception are available to the general public for $150 each, and for the reception ONLY for $75. Nominees for Jazz Awards must register their reservations at the Ticket site, and can buy a ticket for one companion for $75. The submissions for Photo of the Year, organized by John Abbott, look stunning -- the 2010 Jazz Awards nominees are an estimable crew -- and the Jazz Awards party is going to be fun, with Brother Thelonious Belgian Ale plentiful, pianist Ayako Shirasaki (for Jan Matthies Music Management), Tia Fuller (from Mack Avenue Records) and the Bobby Sanabria Big Band (several supportive groups) scheduled to perform -- more aritsts tba! Go to www.Jazzhouse.org, vote, make your reservations, and also please support the Jazz Awards by tweeting and posting about it to facebook. We want to raise awareness of jazz, of nominees, of the the Jazz Journalists Association, of the Jazz Awards -- and you'll be raising your own profile while you do so (be sure to post to social media about where to find your articles when they come out -- doing so can vastly increase readership). If you're NOT CURRENTLY A MEMBER of the JJA, please go to http://www.jazzhouse.org/noff/index.php?page_id=30 and pay up -- then your vote will be counted and you can come to the Awards with the members' discount. More news -- about the A Team, about the new JJA News, about Jazz Awards mc Terrance McKnight and other bands performing at the event -- to follow. best, Howard From president at jazzjournalists.org Mon May 10 10:05:03 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:05:03 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] the new JJA News! Message-ID: Hi JJA members -- introducing our new JJA News, an info hub with the potential to go far beyond Jazz Notes in serving both JJA members and the general public. See it at http://www.jjanews.org. And subscribe right away! Doing to, you will be served with immediate headline news whenever anyone -- you included -- posts something new on the site. In the future we won't be using jja-announce to let you know there's a new "edition" ready, as we did with Jazz Notes. JJA News -- edited by David Adler, designed by Forrest Bryant -- will publish continually, not once-ever-three-months. You ***must*** subscribe individually if you want to stay informed about the JJA, your fellow members and other news that affects us as jazz journalists. There are three ways to subscribe -- When you visit http://www.jjanews.org, look in the right side sidebar for "Subscribe to JJA News" and the row of icons right under the Jazz Awards box. There are three ways to subscribe. Pick whichever suits you best: *EMAIL -- click the envelope icon and you'll be taken to a page where you can enter your email address. (You'll get a confirmation email which ***requires your response*** to activate your subscription.) If you subscribe this way, you'll get an email each time a new article is added to the page. *TWITTER-- If you use Twitter as a "headline service", click the Twitter "T" to follow JJA News. A headline and link back to the site is tweeted each time a new article is added. *RSS feed-- If you use an RSS feed reader you know how this works; click to subscribe as you do on any site. The new site isn't just for JJA Members, so please encourage your friends and fellow jazz fans to subscribe, too. (We'll soon have a special "Members Only" section, accessible by password, for internal news and special reports.) Spread the word about this site via your own email lists, Facebook page status updates, Twitter tweets, anyway you get the news out. The other important aspect of JJA News is that it will thrive on ***your contributions****. As a JJA member, you get news and you make news. We want news about the business of jazz journalism, and your news of your new works. David Adler will still make assignments of articles, book reviews, photo spreads, etc -- but as a JJA member it is your ***responsibility*** as well as privilege to contribute to JJA News, for the greater knowledge of the entire membership and others interested in your jazz journalism. Contributions WILL BE EDITED for length, clarity and incisiveness. If you want to do a substantial piece, we suggest you query edit at jjanews.org. However, unsolicited articles by JJA members will be considered and usually welcomed. You can have your blog listed in the right hand column -- send an email with its url to edit at jjanews.org. There are also opportunities to work on JJA News as a co-editor or assistant to the editors -- contact edit at jjanews.orgif you have interest in committing regular effort to this new initiative. We're very excited about the potential of JJA News. Please take a look at it -- and ***subscribe*** -- today! Pres Howard From david at adlermusic.com Mon May 10 11:11:19 2010 From: david at adlermusic.com (David R. Adler) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 11:11:19 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] JJA News: correct email address Message-ID: Dear JJA colleagues, As Howard wrote, we are pleased to announce the launch of JJA News (jjanews.org), which hereby replaces Jazz Notes and will serve the JJA in a much more up-to-date and dynamic fashion. Please note that the email address in the previous launch announcement is incorrect: from here forward, please direct all editorial correspondence regarding JJA News to me at editor at jazzjournalists.org. Also please be aware that our venerable "News of Members" section is now called "Member Updates." There is no longer any need to wait for deadline announcements from me - please send your Member Updates anytime to editor at jazzjournalists.org. And keep in mind that the format is precisely the same as it has always been: one brief paragraph beginning with your name. Thanks, folks. More info to come. We look forward to your participation in this exciting new venture. Regards, David R. Adler Editor, JJA News jjanews.org From president at jazzjournalists.org Thu May 13 09:36:37 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 09:36:37 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] vote! reserve tix! see JJA News! Message-ID: JJA Members -- Please go to Jazzhouse.org to vote in the 14th annual JJA Jazz Awards -- we want the biggest voting turnout by members ever. Then -- please proceed to JJAJazzAwards.org, for news of Awards developments, and to click through to make reservations for the Awards party, which is going to be a blast at City Winery on June 14 (doors open at 3:30 pm, and pianist Ayako Shirasaki will perform then). For the first time, we'll have the Awards ceremony uninterrupted by music to begin the event, and at 5 pm open the doors for a reception, with music by guitarist Rale Micic's trio, pianist Marc Cary's Focus Trio, saxophonist Tia Fuller's quartet, and the Bobby Sanabria Big Band. Tickets for JJA members to the entire Jazz Awards event are $75, including food, drink and goody bags. JJA members will be onstage to present the Awards to winners and "A Team" members. Also -- take a look at www.JJANews.org -- a new online platform for the JJA. Please subscribe to the RSS feed for email notification of JJANews updates. And think about new of jazz journalism (including your own) that belongs on JJA News. We want and need your participation in this platform to spread work of your own works and the JJA as an entity. Tell your friends, readers, followers, etc. Hey -- if you aren't a member-in-good-standing -- if your dues are overdue -- your vote in the Jazz Awards WON'T BE COUNTED (and you won't qualify for the members' discount ticket for the Jazz Awards). Contact me if you don't know if your dues are due. Dues remain $75 for the year. The JJA has a lot of good things in the works for this summer, next fall and beyond -- Jazz Matters panels at major jazz festivals, applications for grants to support a jazz video-reportage initiative, Jazz Matters panels next fall at jazz education institutions, and a profession-wide jazz journalism conference next January. Be in on it. Renew your membership, and ask unaffiliated colleagues to get in on this, too. Cool, thanks -- Pres Howard From president at jazzjournalists.org Sun May 16 16:24:02 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 16:24:02 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] vote on Photo of the Year submissions Message-ID: Hi all -- Photo of the Year are being voted on twice -- once, to reduce the excellent field of submissions to 5, and secondly to select a "best" photo of the year from that five. The first round of that voting will end on Wednesday, May 19, at noon EDT. If you are a JJA members-in-good-standing, please go to www.Jazzhouse.organd vote for as many as five of the submissions, to move them towards the finalists category. The five finalists will be announced on Thursday, May 20, and then voting will comment on them to arrive at the JJA's Photo of the Year. The ballot is at the bottom of the first box on Jazzhouse under the photo. The ballot for JJA members to vote on Jazz Awards is there, too. If you haven't voted for Jazz Awards winners yet, please do so. And if you have to renew your dues so that your vote counts, please do that, too. -- www.Jazzhouse.org/renew. Thanks -- Howard From david at adlermusic.com Mon May 17 09:37:33 2010 From: david at adlermusic.com (David R. Adler) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 09:37:33 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] Member Updates Message-ID: Dear members, If you have any Member Updates - reminder, a short single paragraph beginning with your name - please send them within the next couple of days to editor at jazzjournalists.org. And if you haven't yet checked out the new JJA News site, please do so! JJANews.org Many thanks, David R. Adler Editor, JJA News From president at jazzjournalists.org Wed May 19 10:28:35 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 10:28:35 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] last chance to vote for Photos! Message-ID: Hey all JJA members-in-good-standing -- If you haven't already, please vote on the submissions for Photo of the Year -- the ballot is here: http://www.jazzhouse.org/vote/pho10/ Voting booth closes today at noon, EDT. Please do it now! Voting on the finalists will be announced asap! -- thanks, Howard From president at jazzjournalists.org Sun May 23 23:19:09 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 23:19:09 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] Congrats to Photo of the Year finalists -- go vote! Message-ID: Dear JJA members -- Five finalists for Photo of the Year have been chosen by voting members of the JJA, and the ballot is now open to vote on ONE of them for Photo of the Year. Polling for that Award, and also for ALL THE REST OF THE NOMINATIONS CATEGORIES, ends on Friday, May 28, at 8 pm EDT. The photo finalists are: Zim Ngqawana at the Willisau Jazz Festival, 26.08.2009 by Dragan Tasic Eddie Henderson on the soundcheck before concert April 2009 by Gulnara Khamatova Hank Jones backstage at BB King's Club in New York City ? March 30, 2009 ? celebrating James Moody's 84th birthday concert by John Abbott Sonny Rollins digs deep. Taken at the 2009 London Jazz Festival, by John Watson Tom Harrell, Moscow International Performance Arts Center, December 26, 2009 by Lena Adasheva THANKS TO ALL THE SUBMITTERS -- This was an extraordinarily good crop of photos up for consideration, and voting was close. President Howard From president at jazzjournalists.org Mon May 24 13:04:35 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:04:35 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] a link to the Photo Ballot Message-ID: Dear JJA members, For ease of voting on the Photo of the Year finalists, here's a link to the Ballot supplement: http://www.jazzhouse.org/vote/pho10/ While you're there, go to vote on the main ballot if you haven't already -- http://www.jazzhouse.org/vote/ And ignore the voting end-date at that site -- voting on BOTH the Photo of the Year and the Main Ballot will continue until noon EDT on Friday, May 28, thanks, Howard From president at jazzjournalists.org Fri May 28 13:07:22 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:07:22 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] Jazz Awards voting ends today Message-ID: dear fully paid up JJA members -- voting ends tonight at 9 pm EDT on finalists for the 14th annual JJA Jazz Awards. The ballot represents much (not all, inevitably) of the finest music and journalism about music created over the past year. If you have not yet voted, go to www.Jazzhouse.org/vote (the Main Ballot on the front page, below the photo, at Jazzhouse) and also vote for the Best Photo of the Year http://www.jazzhouse.org/vote/pho10/ If you're not fully paid up and want to renew so your vote is counted, go to www.Jazzhouse.org/renew. Or Jazzhouse.org/join. The Jazz Awards are being celebrated on June 14 at City Winery in New York -- and also at "satellite parties" at the Jazzschool in Berkley, CA, at Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque, as hosted by Earshot Jazz at the Triple Door in Seattle, as hosted by JJA member Mikayla Gilbreath's family in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, maybe in Portland, Chicago, Boston . . -- they can be celebrated wherever YOU are, too. These parties can be quite informal -- living rooms, kitchens, hangouts -- with streaming video/audio from the New York event viewable on any computer, and a protocol for communicating among all the satellite parties using Twitter. (this is a JJA media experiment!). They can be more ambitious, but time is getting tight. Oh, the Jazz Awards in NYC starts at 3:30 edt and ends at 6:30, so plan according to your own time zone. To watch the streaming on your computer at home or office, at 3:30 pm edt on June 14 go to www.JJAJazzAwards.org. It'll be there to see. If you want to know more about the satellite parties -- our coordinator is Joanne Robinson Hill -- jazzfund at verizon.net. Let us know if you're scheduling anything -- we'll send program books and who knows what else. Celebrate excellence in jazz and jazz journalism -- invite other jazz journalists to join you. Get in touch! And if you haven't, VOTE -- thanks, Howard