2020 nominees for jazz music / recording awards. JJA: Video

ECM
Resonance Records
Pi Recordings
Smoke Sessions Records
High Note/Savant

José James
Gregory Porter
Kurt Elling
Giacomo Gates

Veronica Swift
Jazzmeia Horn
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Sara Gazarek
Catherine Russell

Art Ensemble of Chicago 50th Anniversary
Sun Ra Arkestra
Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Anat Cohen Tentet

Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret
Harriet Tubman
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom
Branford Marsalis Quartet
Miguel Zenón Quartet

Dave Douglas
Jeremy Pelt
Wadada Leo Smith
Christian Scott aTundé Adjuah
Wynton Marsalis
Brian Lynch

Wycliffe Gordon
Michael Dease
Ryan Keberle
Steve Swell

Joe Lovano
James Carter
Roscoe Mitchell
Scott Robinson

Steve Lehman
Gary Bartz
Bobby Watson
Matana Roberts
Miguel Zenón
Steve Coleman

Branford Marsalis
Chris Potter
Melissa Aldana
Joe Lovano

Gary Smulyan
Claire Daly
Lauren Sevian
James Carter
Ronnie Cuber
Scott Robinson

Jane Ira Bloom
Sam Newsome
Dave Liebman
Branford Marsalis

Nicole Mitchell
Charles Lloyd
Jamie Baum
Elena Pinderhughes

Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar}
Brandee Younger (harp}
Grégoire Maret (harmonica)
Gary Versace (accordion)
Theon Cross (tuba)
Scott Robinson (reeds, brass and more)

2020 NOMINEES FOR JAZZ JOURNALISM AWARDS

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism

Ben Ratliff is the author of four books, including Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016); The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (Times Books, 2008); and Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, semifinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). He was a jazz and pop critic at the New York Times from 1996 to 2016 and has published essays on music in publications including 4Columns, Affidavit, npr.org, Pitchfork and the New York Review of Books. He teaches cultural criticism at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Larry Blumenfeld has written about jazz and Afro Latin music for The Wall Street Journal since 2004; over the past 30 years his work has appeared in The Village Voice, New York Times, Daily Beast, Salon, DownBeat and Chamber Music magazine, among others. He was editor-in-chief of Jazziz from 1995-2000, and maintains a column in it; he’s collaborated with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem on a “Jazz and Social Justice” series. He curates the Wells Fargo Jazz Series for Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC, and co-founded the Deer Isle Jazz Festival in Stonington, Maine.

Howard Reich has covered music for the Chicago Tribune since 1978, joining the staff in 1983. His six books include Jelly’s Blues, Let Freedom Swing, and Portraits in Jazz. He served on the Pulitzer music jury four times, including for honorees Wynton Marsalis (1997 winner) and Wadada Leo Smith (2013 finalist). He has won an Emmy and holds two honorary doctorates.

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.

Dan Ouellette has been a freelance writer for more than 30 years, published in DownBeat, Billboard, Qwest.tv, Huffington Post, Stereophile and Medium. After being a senior editor of ZEALnyc where he wrote the column “Jazz Notes Intel”, he’s taken the column from the now-shuttered startup to his website, danouellette.net. The monthly column is called “Jazz & Beyond Intel”. He’s the author of Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes and Bruce Lundvall: Playing By Ear, and has regularly presented public q&a sessions with major jazz artists at the Monterey Jazz Festival and two of Umbria Jazz Festival’s sites in Perugia and Orvieto.

HotHouse
JazzTimes
AllAboutJazz.com
The New York City Jazz Record
DownBeat
Jazziz

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Album Art of the Year

Playtime 2050 (Nick Sanders Trio, Sunnyside)
Artwork by Leah Saulnier, graphic design by Christopher Drukker

A Wall Becomes A Bridge (Kendrick Scott Oracle, Blue Note)
Artwork by Yashua Klos

Water

Dream A Little… (Champian Fulton/Cory Weeds, Cellar Live)
Artwork by Takao Fujioka

Longboard: Being Wild (Alban Darche/Matthieu Donarier/Meivelyan Jacquot, YOLK Music)
Artwork by Kerne Erickson © Greg Young Publishing, Inc. – Design by Jean Depagne, Anima Productions

Photo of the Year

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Victor Lewis, Half Note Jazz Club in Athens, Greece, by Thrassos Irinis

Francesco Diodati Yellow Squeeds, Umbria Jazz Winter 2019/Palazzo del Popolo, by Andrea Rotili

Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Leopolis Jazz Fest Lviv Ukraine, by Serhiy Horobets

Jazzmeia Horn, Belgrade Jazz Festival, by Nedici Dragoslav

Marco Piccirillo, Milk Jazz Way, Torino, Italy, by Carlo Mogavero