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Carla Bley
Eddie Palmieri
Chick Corea
Jimmy Cobb
Charles Lloyd
Christian McBride
Roscoe Mitchell
Terri Lyne Carrington
Brandee Younger
Jaimie Branch
James Brandon Lewis
Joel Ross
Guillermo Klein
Miho Hazama
Kris Davis
Arranger of the Year
Michael Leonhart
Ted Nash
Brian Lynch
Diatom Ribbons, by Kris Davis (Pyroclastic Records)
Glitter Wolf, by Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom (Royal Potato Family)
The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul, by Branford Marsalis (Okeh)
We Are On the Edge – 50th Anniversary Celebration, by the Art Ensemble of Chicago (Pi Recordings)
Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings, by Wes Montgomery (Resonance Records)
The Music Never Stops, by Betty Carter (Blue Engine Records)
Blue World, by John Coltrane (Verve)
Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions, by Eric Dolphy (Resonance Records)
Hittin’ the Ramp: The Early Years (1936 – 1943), by Nat King Cole (Resonance Records)
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Resonance Records
Pi Recordings
Smoke Sessions Records
High Note/Savant
Gregory Porter
Kurt Elling
Giacomo Gates
Jazzmeia Horn
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Sara Gazarek
Catherine Russell
Sun Ra Arkestra
Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Anat Cohen Tentet
Harriet Tubman
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom
Branford Marsalis Quartet
Miguel Zenón Quartet
Jeremy Pelt
Wadada Leo Smith
Christian Scott aTundé Adjuah
Wynton Marsalis
Brian Lynch
Michael Dease
Ryan Keberle
Steve Swell
James Carter
Roscoe Mitchell
Scott Robinson
Gary Bartz
Bobby Watson
Matana Roberts
Miguel Zenón
Steve Coleman
Chris Potter
Melissa Aldana
Joe Lovano
Claire Daly
Lauren Sevian
James Carter
Ronnie Cuber
Scott Robinson
Sam Newsome
Dave Liebman
Branford Marsalis
Charles Lloyd
Jamie Baum
Elena Pinderhughes
Ben Goldberg
Don Byron
Ken Peplowski
Pianist of the Year
Chick Corea
Kris Davis
Matthew Shipp
Myra Melford
Herbie Hancock
Craig Taborn
Brian Charette
Thomas Morgan
Christian McBride
Dave Holland
Ron Carter
Reggie Workman
Linda May Han Oh
Tomeka Reid
Jenny Scheinman
Adam Rudolph
Cyro Baptista
Zakir Hussain
Stefon Harris
Joel Ross
Joe Locke
Allison Miller
Tyshawn Sorey
Terri Lyne Carrington
Brian Blade
Brandee Younger (harp}
Grégoire Maret (harmonica)
Gary Versace (accordion)
Theon Cross (tuba)
Scott Robinson (reeds, brass and more)
2020 NOMINEES FOR JAZZ JOURNALISM AWARDS
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.
JazzTimes
AllAboutJazz.com
The New York City Jazz Record
DownBeat
Jazziz
http://JazzBluesNews.com
Do The Math, by Ethan Iverson
WBGO.org, Nate Chinen, Director of Editorial Content
JazzOnTheTube.com, directed by Ken McCarthy
Jazz Wax, by Marc Myers
Rabbit’s Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges (Oxford University Press), by Con Chapman
Women in Jazz: The Women, The Legends & Their Fights (8th House Publishing), by Sammy Stein
Miles Davis: New Research on Miles Davis and His Circle (Masaya Music), by Masaya Yamaguchi
Jazz from Detroit (University of Michigan Press), by Mark Stryker
Nate Chinen
Giovanni Russonello
Ted Panken
Alisa Clancy, KCSM (San Mateo, CA, since 1986), program director and host of “A Morning Cup of Jazz.”
Richard Conde work samples
Peter Gannushkin work samples
Steven Sussman work samples
Artwork by Leah Saulnier, graphic design by Christopher Drukker
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Artwork by Andrew Nedzvedsky, Hellmark Studio
Artwork by Kerne Erickson © Greg Young Publishing, Inc. – Design by Jean Depagne, Anima Productions
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