2010 JJA Jazz Awards Photo of the Year Entries

2010 Photo of the Year Entries

Bucky Pizzarelli, taken during the 2009 Detroit Jazz Festival (September)

Bassist Tal Wilkenfeld. Summer 2009 at the Quebec City Music Festival. Tal was playing with Jeff Beck. The young Australian bassist has toured with Chick Corea, worked with Herbie Hancock, Prince, Rod Stewart and many others.

Sybil Gage, Cape Canaveral, FL

J D Allen trio at Winter Jazzfest 2010

Zim Ngqawana at the Willisau Jazz Festival, 26.08.2009. The photo was published by the JazzReview.com

"Matt's Smoko" excerpt from the project "Jazz Obscura: An Invitation to the Darkroom of Jazz Notes." Jazz Images taken by Camera Obscura. Matt Penman, bassist

Lezlie Harrison - Lovely Lady Montage 3-15-10

Peter Washington backstage at the Litchfield Jazz Festival, August 2009 (published in Hothouse Jazz, Jersey Jazz Journal and online at wbgo.org/photoblog)

Italian trumpet player Enrico Rava which I took at last year's Enjoy Jazz Festival

Eddie Henderson on the soundcheck before concert April 2009

Dave Brubeck, Montreal Jazz Festival, 2009

Hank Jones backstage at BB King's Club in New York City — March 30, 2009 — celebrating James Moody's 84th birthday concert

Sonny Rollins digs deep. Taken at the 2009 London Jazz Festival. Published in 2009 in Jazz Journal magazine and in the 2010 book The Power Of Jazz by John Watson.

Hank Roberts - September 20th 2009 at the 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Garden Stage while Hank was performing with Buffalo Collision. I think it captures the focus the concentration and the moment of the music.

Branford Marsalis, relaxing after his concert in studio at the Jazz sous les Pommiers Festival,Coutances, Normandy France on May 21, 2009

31.10.2009 Tony Marino on bass and Ellery Eskelin on saxophone at Festival Jazz Onze+, Lausanne, Switzerland by JC Hernandez — Dave Liebman and Ellery Eskelin on sax, Jim Black on drums, Tony Marino on bass

Dave Brubeck joins weekend closer Tony Bennett on "That Old Black Magic" at George Wein's resurrected Newport Jazz Festival — the Care Fusion Jazz Festival 55, Newport. August 9, 2009

'Hidayat Kahn — Miles From India' Montreal Jazz Festival 2009

Tom Harrell, Moscow International Performance Arts Center (Moscow, Russia) December 26, 2009

Corey Wilkes, The Trane Studio, Toronto, February 26, 2010

Old Man and The Sea — Mose Allison

Fred Anderson — Vision Festival 6-14-09

Pat Martino performs a sound check at the 2009 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival.

Cassandra Wilson, March 5, 2010 at the Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown, NY

Jimmy Heath in repose with his saxophone. New Mexico Jazz Festival, Lensic Theater, Santa Fe, July 19, 2009

Bucky Pizzarelli at the Les Paul Tribute August 17, 2009

Jazz promoter and producer George Wein performing on the WWOZ Jazz Tent stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at the New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, LA USA, 30 April 2009

A contemplative Pat Martino performing at the Iridium Jazz Club on Dec 14,2009. Pat had just informed the audience of the special relationship he had with the late Les Paul.

Anat Cohen performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April 2009. It appeared in my column in the December issue of The Clarinet.

Sir John Dankworth on his last appearance on the London Stage in November 2009 at the South Bank

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