The finalist ballot will be made available for voting by members of the Jazz Journalists Association only, online at www.Jazzhouse.org. Winners will be announced at a cocktail/supper party awards event at B. B. King's Blues Club and Grill, 245 W. 42nd St., on Tuesday, June 17, from 4 to 7 p.m. Reservations for JJA members, Jazz Awards nominees, jazz industry supporters and the general public can be made at www.JazzJournalistsAwards.com.
Tickets for the Jazz Awards cost $75; nominees and JJA members get one ticket free, and may pay $20 for one additional ticket. JJA members and nominees must reserve these event tickets in advance.
More details available from: Howard Mandel ([email protected]).
For sponsorship opportunities concerning these 7th Annual JJA Jazz Awards, contact Suzan Jenkins ([email protected])
1) Lifetime Achievement in Jazz
Cecil Taylor Elvin Jones Lee Konitz Roy Haynes Wayne Shorter
2) Musician of the Year
Dave Douglas Dave Holland Joe Lovano Matt Shipp Wayne Shorter
3) Up 'n' Coming Musician of the Year
Jason Moran Jeremy Pelt John Hollenbeck Norah Jones Vijay Iyer
4) Jazz Album of the Year
Always Let Me Go (ECM) -- Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette Footprints Live! (Verve) -- Wayne Shorter Modernistic (Blue Note) -- Jason Moran Peace Pipe (Palmetto) -- Ben Allison What Goes Around (ECM) -- Dave Holland Big Band
5) Reissue of the Year
A Love Supreme (Impulse) -- John Coltrane Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (Emarcy/Verve) Live at the Golden Circle (Blue Note) -- Ornette Coleman Trio Money Jungle (Blue Note) -- Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach Monk's Dream (Columbia Legacy) -- Thelonious Monk
6) Historical Box Set of the Year
Charlie Christian, Genius of the Electric Guitar (Columbia Legacy) Complete Miles Davis at Montreux (Columbia Legacy/Warner Bros. Switzerland) Grant Green: Retrospetive (Blue Note) The Classic Columbia and Okeh Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang Recordings (Mosaic) The Herbie Hancock Box (Columbia Legacy)
7) Record Label of the Year
Blue Note ECM Fantasy/Milestone Palmetto Thirsty Ear Verve
8) Jazz Producer of the Year
Andre Menard (Festival International de Jazz de Montreal) George Wein (Festival Productions) Patricia Nicholson Parker (Vision Fest) Randall Kline (SFJazz) Tim Jackson (Monterey Jazz Festival) Todd Barkan and Wynton Marsalis (Jazz@Lincoln Center)
9) Jazz Composer of the Year
Andrew Hill Ben Allison Dave Douglas Dave Holland Maria Schneider Wayne Shorter
10) Jazz Arranger of the Year
Bill Holman Dave Holland Jim McNeeley Maria Schneider Toshiko Akiyoshi
11) Male Jazz Vocalist of the Year
Andy Bey Giacomo Gates Kevin Mahagony Kurt Elling Mark Murphy
12) Female Jazz Vocalist of the Year
Abbey Lincoln Cassandra Wilson Dee Dee Bridgewater Dianne Reeves Patricia Barber
13) Latin Jazz Album of the Year Quarteto, Ach
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