JAZZ 2012.JUN.20. US. 16th annual Jazz Awards

Publicat in: 21.04.2012, 06:31AM
Autor: Richard Constantinidi
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Etichete: 16th Annual Jja Jazz Awards, Blue Note Jazz Club, Jazz Journalists Association, Jja Awards

The JJA has launched its 16th annual Jazz Awards initiative and set Wednesday, June 20 as the date for a New York City Awards party at the Blue Note Jazz Club.

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“Satellite" parties celebrating the Awards will be held around the same time in a number of other cities. Meanwhile, awards nominations are being tabulated and 2012 nominees will be announced on April 13 as part of the JJA’s celebration of Jazz Day.

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JJA professional journalist members have now made their nominations

in 40 categories of Jazz and jazz journalism excellence.

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The JJA’s June 20 New York event is being planned as a cocktail party, 4-6 p.m. at the Blue Note, at which winners of Lifetime Achievement in Jazz, Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism and several other top honors will be announced. In a change from past years, winners of other Awards will be announced in days leading up to the NYC event.

Jazz Heroes awards will also be announced in advance.

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Satellite parties are also being organized across the U.S. and beyond, in which local jazz scenes will celebrate themselves, their own “jazz heroes” and continuing development of a living art form. To date, satellite parties are a’brewing in Boston, Gainesville, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Seattle, Toronto, Tucson, Washington D.C. and Aukland, New Zealand.

Other communities are cordially invited to throw their own; satellite parties needn’t be fancy affairs — for further information contact Susan@JazzJournalists.org

This year’s changes in the JJA Jazz Awards format are intended to better spotlight jazz beyond the Big Apple by encouraging and providing organizational support to people, presenters and institutions that will hold their own events, open to the public, that raise the profile of talents and audiences everywhere there’s jazz action.

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Most breaking news regarding the 2012 Jazz Awards will be posted first at the new JJA Awards 2012 Facebook page, as will information about how you can participate by submitting photos, videos and blog posts about your local jazz scene. Finalists resulting from the nominations ballot will be announced there and also at JJANews on April 13, designated Jazz Day by the U.S. Council of Mayors, and so adopted by the Jazz Forward Coalition.

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The Nominees are:

http://czb.ro/articol/3354/