Tuesday, May 19, 2020

2020 JJA Jazz Awards winners!

2020 JJA Jazz Awards winners!

May 18th, 2020 | By 
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 SoulChristian 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.


2020 WINNERS FOR JAZZ PERFORMANCE & RECORDINGS


Lifetime Achievement
Award in Jazz

CARLA BLEY

    CARLA BLEY
Photo by Mark Marnie


Musician of the Year

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON


Up and Coming
Musician of the Year

LAKECIA BENJAMIN



Composer of the Year

KRIS DAVIS



Arranger of the Year

MIGUEL ZENÓN

MIGUEL ZENÓN
Photo by Jimmy Katz

Record of the Year

THE SECRET BETWEEN THE SHADOW AND THE SOUL

Branford Marsalis Quartet (OKeh)
THE SECRET BETWEEN THE SHADOW AND THE SOUL


Historical Record of the Year

MUSICAL PROPHET: THE EXPANDED 1963 NEW YORK STUDIO SESSIONS

Eric Dolphy (Resonance Records)

MUSICAL PROPHET: THE EXPANDED 196 NEW YORK STUDIO SESSION


Record Label of the Year

ECM



Male Vocalist of the Year

KURT ELLING

KURT ELLING
Photo by Anna Webber

Female Vocalist of the Year

CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT

CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT
Photo by Hector Perez

Large Ensemble of the Year

THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO 50TH ANNIVERSARY

Photo by Marc PoKempner


Mid-Size Ensemble of the Year

ALLISON MILLER'S BOOM TIC BOOM

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom; from left,
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

WYCLIFFE GORDON


Multiple Reeds Player of the Year

JOE LOVANO

JOE LOVANO
Photo by Jimmy Katz

Alto Saxophonist of the Year

MIGUEL ZENÓN

MIGUEL ZENÓN
Photo by Jimmy Katz

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

ANAT COHEN
Photo by Jimmy Katz


Guitarist of the Year

BILL FRISELL

BILL FRISELL


Pianist of the Year

KRIS DAVIS

KRIS DAVIS


Keyboardist of the Year

HERBIE HANCOCK

HERBIE HANCOCK
Photo by Douglas Kirkland


Bassist of the Year

LINDA MAY HAN OH

LINDA MAY HAN OH


Strings Player of the Year

TOMEKA REID

TOMEKA REID
Photo by Tony Smith


Percussionist of the Year

ZAKIR HUSSAIN

ZAKIR HUSSAIN
Photo by Jim McGuire


Mallet Player of the Year

JOEL ROSS

JOEL ROSS
Photo by Lauren Desberg


Drummer of the Year

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON


Player of Instruments Rare in Jazz

BRANDEE YOUNGER, Harp

BRANDEE YOUNGER


2020 WINNERS IN JAZZ JOURNALISM

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism

STANLEY CROUCH

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

JAZZTIMES


Blog of the Year

WBGO.org

Nate Chinen, Director of Editorial Content

WBGO.org Nate Chinen, Director of Editorial Content


Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing in 2019

NATE CHINEN

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


Jazz From Detroit


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

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)

A Wall Becomes of Bridge (Kendrick Scott Oracle, Blue Note)


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