1999

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WINNERS
Jazz Journalists Awards
Stanley Dance	Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism
Gary Giddins	Excellence in Print
Dr. Billy Taylor	Excellence in Broadcast
William Gottlieb	Excellence in Photography
Visions In Jazz (Gary Giddins)	Book of the Year
Mingus - Triumph of the Underdog	Film/Video of the Year
Jazz Times	Periodical/Website of the Year

t began just before sunset on the veranda of the South Street Seaport Atrium, overlooking the East River. With the Manhattan. Williamsburg and 59th St. bridges as a backdrop, I announced winners of the Jazz Journalists Association's awards for excellence, and presented them with their engraved crystal pyramid awards:

• Gary Giddins, receiving the Helen Oakley Dance/Robert Palmer Award for excellence in print
• William Gottlieb, receiving the Lona Foote/Bob Parent Award for excellence in photography,
• Dr. Billy Taylor, receiving the Marian McPartland/Willis Conover Award for excellence in broadcasting.
• Sue Mingus accepted the award for Best Jazz Film/Video of the Year for the documentary: "Mingus -- Triumph of the Underdog"
• Lee Mergener accepted the award for Best Publications/Website for monthly JazzTimes magazine.
• Visions of Jazz (Oxford University Press) by Gary Giddins won the award for Jazz Book of the Year.
• Stanley Dance was honored, posthumously, with a Lifetime Achievement Award; it was accepted by his son, Francis Dance.

The Knitting Factory also came through with physical awards to deliver to our winners of last year: Whitney Balliet for excellence in print, William Claxton for excellence in photography, and Marian McPartland for excellence in broadcast. I handled this as expeditiously as possible, but took time to mention that the deaths of Stanley Dance, Euguene Kalbacher (editor-publisher of Hot House, a NY/NJ-based publication) and Jamil "J.B." Figi, noted Chicago jazz historian and poet, have been a loss to everyone in our field, among others beyond it.