Escuchar y leer Jazz: 2016

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism
Ted Panken

Ted receives award from JJA President Howard Mandel at Jun 15 Awards party. Photo: Bonnie Johnson.

Jazz Periodical of the Year
(new category this year; combines the previous Jazz Publication of the Year and Jazz Website of the year categories)
DownBeat

DownBeat Marketing Director Ritchie Deraney accepts the award. Photo: Bonnie Johnson

Jazz Blog of the Year
Ethan Iverson: Do the Math

Ethan Iverson receives his award. Photo: Bonnie Johnson

Jazz Book of the Year
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
(Viking/Penguin Publishing Company), by John Szwed

Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing in 2015
Nate Chinen

Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Broadcasting in the Year 2015
Linda Yohn WEMU

Linda Yohn at Jun 15 Awards partyphoto: Bonnie Johnson.

Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Photography in the Year 2015
Ken Franckling

Jazz Photo of the Year

Patrick Marek- Lucian Dubuis

Jazz Album Art of the Year (new category this year)

Kamasi Washington - The Epic (Brainfeeder)
Photo by Mike Park

http://www.jjajazzawards.org/p/nominees-2016.html

Nominees

33) LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN JAZZ JOURNALISM

Ted Gioia is a writer, educator and musician. He's published ten nonfiction books, including histories of West Coast jazz, the Delta blues, love songs, work songs, jazz standards, and most recently How To Listen To Jazz. From 2007 to 2010 he was editor of jazz.com; in the 1980s he worked to establish the jazz studies program at Stanford University. He writes for many newspapers and magazines, and blogs frequently on literary as well as musical topics. He is also a columnist for The Daily Beast.

Ted Panken writes for Down Beat, Jazziz, and Jazz Times, among other publications. From 1985 to 2008 he broadcast jazz and creative music on WKCR. He has written more than 600 liner notes, has contributed to the New York Daily News and the now-defunct jazz.com e-zine, has conducted dozens of public interviews for the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and oral histories for the NEA Jazz Masters program. He has posted a large selection of his articles, uncut interviews, and unedited DownBeat Blindfold Tests on his blog, Today Is The Question

Will Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for The Wall Street Journal and Vanity Fair. He also is the author of eight books including the award-winning A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Sinatra: The Song is You, Stardust Melodies, Tony Bennett: The Good Life, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, and Jazz Singing. He has written over 600 liner notes for compact discs, received ten Grammy nominations, and appears frequently on television and other documentaries.

34) JAZZ PERIODICAL OF THE YEAR

(this new category combines two former categories, Jazz Publication of the Year and Jazz Website of the Year, to reflect recent changes in jazz media.)

DownBeat

Jazziz

JazzTimes

The New York City Jazz Record