About the Awards


The Jazz Journalists Association  initiated its awards honoring excellence in jazz music, recordings, presentation and journalism in 1997. At the 15th annual JJA Jazz Awards Awards gala on June 11, 2011, a star-studded coterie of musicians, journalists and music-world movers and shakers  will assert again the unique status of these honors as jazz's only independent, international, culture-and-community-wide celebration.

Winners in the 2011 Jazz Awards 39 categories of excellence will be announced including Lifetime Achievement and Best of the Year Awards for musicians, presenters, recordings, photos, journalists, publications, blogs and websites.  A new Awards category,  Short Online Video of the Year, was just added this year. New members of the JJA's growing "A-Team" of activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz will be introduced.

Voting for the Jazz Awards for achievements starts with the JJA's professional members being asked to submit up to three nominees in each category. Nominees accumulating the most votes are finalists; ties in some categories result in fewer or more than five nominated finalists. Finalists are voted upon by JJA professional members in a second round to determine Awards winners, who are invited to receive their personalized statuettes onstage.

The JJA presents all its Awards as an assertion that informed, professional, independent coverage of jazz across genre is vital to the preservation and promotion of contemporary music, for new and established audiences alike.

Photos
top:  Jazz Awards 2006 attendees, ©GENE MARTIN

bottom: 2009 Photo of the year, ©KRIS KING: Hank Jones, Montreal Jazz Festival 2008
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