1996 - 1997

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Nominating Committee:

Chris Albertson
Karen Bennett, Musician Magazine
Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe
Larry Blumenfeld, JazzIs
Jeff Bradley, Denver Post
Thomas Conrad, Down Beat, Jazz Times
Owen Cordle, Down Beat/North Carolina
Francis Davis, Atlantic Monthly, Village Voice
Ed Enright, Down Beat
John Ephland, Down Beat
Ken Franckling, UPI photographer
George Kanzler, Newark Star-Ledger
Fred Kaplan, Fi Magazine
Larry Katz, Boston Herald
James Hale, Ottawa, Down Beat, Pulse!
Robert Hicks, NYC, The Villager, Down Beat, RhythmMusic
Howard Mandel, Down Beat, JazzIs, Pulse!, Jazz Journalists Assoc.
Jim McNie, Biillboard, Down Beat, JazzIz
Lee Mergener, Jazz Times
Rick Mitchell, Houston Chronicle
Art Lange, Tower Pulse!
Tom Moon, Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan Oulette, Down Beat
Ted Panken, WBGO-FM
Thierry Peremarti, Jazzman (Paris)
Stephen Phillips, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Michael Point, Austin Chronicle
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
Derk Richardson, SF Bay Guardian, Fi Magazine
R. Dante Sawyer, JazzIs
Kirk Silsbee, LA
Jeff Simon, Buffalo News
Zan Stewart, Los Angeles
Neil Tesser, Playboy
George Varga, San Diego Union Tribune/Copley News Service
Calvin Wilson, Kansas City Star
Herb Wong, IAJE
Scott Yanow, All CD Guide to Jazz