2020 JJA Jazz Awards winners!
Carla Bley, composer-arranger-bandleader and pianist, has won the 2020 JJA Jazz Award for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz in the 25th annual honors for excellence in music and music journalism.
Stanley Crouch, author, essayist, novelist, advisor to Jazz at Lincoln Center and president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, is winner of Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism.
This year’s Awards for instrumentalists advance a multi-year trend by the JJA’s voting members to recognize accomplished women among the multiple nominated finalists. Drummer and educator Terri Lyne Carrington (Musician of the Year), pianist-composer Kris Davis (Composer and Pianist of the Year), saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin (Up & Coming Musician of the Year), drummer-composer Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom (for Mid-Size Ensemble of the Year), baritone saxophonist Lauren Sevian and harpist Brandee Younger (Player of Instruments Rare in Jazz), and several other women were voted Best of the Year for their achievements in 2019. For the first time, women won half the instrumentalists’ categories.
Not that men are ignored in this year’s Jazz Awards. Miguel Zenón won Arranger of the Year and Alto Saxophonist of the year, Branford Marsalis’ quartet won Record of the Year for The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul, Christian Scott aTundé Adjuah was named Trumpeter of the Year and Joel Ross was Mallet Player of the Year, both for the first time. Mark Stryker’s Jazz From Detroit (University of Michigan Press) was voted Best Book About Jazz, San Francisco Bay Area radio show host Richard Hadlock and New York-based photographer Richard Conde won, respectively, the Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting, and the Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography.
“The JJA is pleased to congratulate these winners, and indeed all the musicians nominated in our two-stage voting process,” said Howard Mandel, president of the JJA. “Especially with listeners largely confined to home, it’s important to let artists know they’re being heard, and to advise music fans about the best current jazz creativity, as jazz journalists do.”
The Jazz Awards was initiated in 1996, and follows on the JJA’s Jazz Heroes Awards for “activists, advocates altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz (which are being promoted via interactive broadcasts featuring Boston hero Ran Blake on May 23, and Los Angeles Hero Billy Mitchell on May 28 (see details elsewhere on JJANews.org). Since mid-March, the JJA has also published international reports, JazzOnLockdown, about responses to the coronavirus.
Winners of JJA Jazz Awards have previously been presented with engraved statuettes before audiences at summer performances. This year’s winners will receive hand-printed scrolls certifying their Awards.
2020 Winners
Congratulations to all the winners of the 25th annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, listed below. Professional journalist members of the JJA made open nominations in a first-selection round; those who received the most nominations advanced to the finalists' ballot, and JJA's professional members voted on them to arrive at these honorees.
Our congratulations, of course, to all the 2020 Nominees in all categories. And please click the photos to expand them -- some wonderful images here reward much larger presentation.
Our congratulations, of course, to all the 2020 Nominees in all categories. And please click the photos to expand them -- some wonderful images here reward much larger presentation.
2020 WINNERS FOR JAZZ PERFORMANCE & RECORDINGS
Lifetime Achievement
Award in Jazz
CARLA BLEY
Musician of the Year
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON
Up and Coming
Musician of the Year
LAKECIA BENJAMIN
Composer of the Year
KRIS DAVIS
Arranger of the Year
MIGUEL ZENÓN
Record of the Year
THE SECRET BETWEEN THE SHADOW AND THE SOUL
Branford Marsalis Quartet (OKeh)
Historical Record of the Year
MUSICAL PROPHET: THE EXPANDED 1963 NEW YORK STUDIO SESSIONS
Eric Dolphy (Resonance Records)
Record Label of the Year
ECM
Male Vocalist of the Year
KURT ELLING
Female Vocalist of the Year
CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT
Large Ensemble of the Year
THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Mid-Size Ensemble of the Year
ALLISON MILLER'S BOOM TIC BOOM
Jeff Lederer, bass clarinet; Kirk Knufke, trumpet; Jenny Scheinman, violin;
Myra Melford, piano; Todd Sickafoose, bass; Miller, drums.
Photo by Marc PoKempner
Trumpeter of the Year
CHRISTIAN SCOTT ATUNDÉ ADJUAH
Trombonist of the Year
WYCLIFFE GORDON
Multiple Reeds Player of the Year
JOE LOVANO
Alto Saxophonist of the Year
MIGUEL ZENÓN
Tenor Saxophonist of the Year
CHRIS POTTER
Photo by Dave Stapleton
Baritone Saxophonist of the Year
LAUREN SEVIAN
Photo by Guinara Khamatova
Soprano Saxophonist of the Year
JANE IRA BLOOM
Flutist of the Year
NICOLE MITCHELL
Clarinetist of the Year
ANAT COHEN
Photo by Jimmy Katz
Guitarist of the Year
BILL FRISELL
Pianist of the Year
KRIS DAVIS
Keyboardist of the Year
HERBIE HANCOCK
Photo by Douglas Kirkland
Bassist of the Year
LINDA MAY HAN OH
Strings Player of the Year
TOMEKA REID
Photo by Tony Smith
Percussionist of the Year
ZAKIR HUSSAIN
Photo by Jim McGuire
Mallet Player of the Year
JOEL ROSS
Photo by Lauren Desberg
Drummer of the Year
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON
Player of Instruments Rare in Jazz
BRANDEE YOUNGER, Harp
2020 WINNERS IN JAZZ JOURNALISM
Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism
STANLEY CROUCH
Photo by Zack Zook
Stanley Crouch is a cultural critic, author, curator and recreational drummer. Based in New York City since 1975, he booked avant-garde jazz for the Tin Palace, wrote for the Village Voice from 1980-88, and became artistic consultant to Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He's been a columnist for the New York Daily News, syndicated and commissioned by many periodicals, including a column for JazzTimes. His books include Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989; The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994; Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker; The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity;andConsidering Genius: Writings on Jazz.He speaks in Ken Burns' Jazz and other documentaries, and has been President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.
Publication of the Year
JAZZTIMES
Blog of the Year
WBGO.org
Nate Chinen, Director of Editorial Content
Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing in 2019
NATE CHINEN
Photo by Michael Lionstar
Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting
RICHARD HADLOCK
Book of the Year About Jazz
JAZZ FROM DETROIT (University of Michigan Press) by Mark Stryker
Lona Foote-Bob Parent Awards for Lifetime Achievement in Photography
RICHARD CONDE
Photo by Jerry Lacay
Photo of the Year
JAZZMEIA HORN, BELGRADE JAZZ FESTIVAL
BY NEDICI DRAGOSLAV
Album Art of the Year
YASHUA KLOS
for A Wall Becomes of Bridge
(by Kendrick Scott Oracle, Blue Note)
(by Kendrick Scott Oracle, Blue Note)
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