Musicians Media Works Win at Jazz Journalists Associations Jazz Awards Pianist Ethan Iverson of the Bad Plus, vibraphonist Gary Burton and singer Dee Dee Bridgewater were given top honors -- along with veteran author, editor, educator and radio show host W. Royal Stokes, freelance writer Nate Chinen, Spanish photographer Antonio Porcar Cano and videographer John Moultrie -- at the 18th annual Jazz Journalists Associations New York City Jazz Awards party at the Blue Note in Manhattan on June 11, 2014. Awards were also announced to JazzTimes magazine and AllAboutJazz. All winners of the 2014 Jazz Awards, including musician recipients announced on April 15 and the 2014 Jazz Heroes feted in 23 North American cities for their activism, advocacy and altruism are detailed at JJAJazzAwards.org Iverson, Burton and Bridgewater were celebrated not for music but for their work in media. Members of the JJA, a non-profit professional organization with some 300 members, voted Iversons Do The Math the Best Blog of the Year and Burtons autobiography Learning To Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton (Berklee Press) Best Book of the Year. Bridgewater, on-air host of the NPR series Jazz Set, received the JJAs Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Broadcasting. Stokes, who has retired to West Virginia after a 60-year-career in and around Washington, D.C., was presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award. Chinen, contributor to the New York Times and JazzTimes, won the Helen Oakley Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Writing in 2013. Cano depicted tenor saxophonist Benny Golson blowing in front of a huge image of Billie Holiday for Photo of the Year. Moultries Best Short Form Jazz News Video clip is the very candid Gary Bartz Talks About Drug Use Among Jazz Greats. Jazz Heroes Meghan Stabile of Revive Music, Maryland-based music educator John R. Lamkin II and WBGO CEO Cephas Bowles, currently on medical leave, were honored at the cocktails-and-hors douevres party. The event was attended by some 125 music and media luminaries, and featured performances by Stephanie Richards Trumpet Quartet, singer Sheila Jordan with bassist Cameron Brown, and pianist Eilio Villafrancas Jass Syncopators Septet. Notable attendees included trombonist Roswell Rudd, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, composer-orchestra leader Maria Schneider, clarinetist Anat Cohen, electronic keyboardist Jason Lindner, JJA member-critics Gary Giddins, Francis Davis, Neil Tesser, Ron Scott and Yvonne Ervin, Motema Music principal Jana Herzen, presenters Mark Morganelli and Todd Barkan, publicists Jana La Sorte, Jim Eigo, Don Lucoff and Carolyn McClair and BMIs Patrick Cook, who toasted All the nominees. The JJAs Jazz Awards are the only comprehensive honors for excellence in jazz and jazz journalism presented publicly in the U.S. Sponsors this year include the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation, WBGO, the New School Jazz and Contemporary Music Program, BMI, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Berklee College of Music, JazzFM, Century Media Partners, Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale, Mack Avenue Records, ECM, Motema Music, Columbia Legacy, Resonance Records, the Jazz Institute of Chicago, JazzBoston, MCGJazz, the Monterey Jazz Festival, DeBlaze and Associates, the Jazz Foundation of America, B Sharps (Tallahassee) and The Jazz Cruise. For further information about the JJA Jazz Awards, or the JJA, contact Howard Mandel, [email protected] (212 533 9495).
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:17:55 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015