Ad Deadline for The JJA Jazz Awards Program Guide Set For May 14

Annual JJA Awards Program Advertising Opportunities

It's that time again. The Annual JJA Jazz Awards in NYC so reserve your ad now for the Jazz Awards Program.

1 page (b&w, 5X7) -- $1,500
1/2 page -- $800
1/4 page -- $450
1/8 page -- $250

Ads must be camera ready and/or in jpeg/pdf form.

Deadline May 14
b&w -- pdf ideal, font embedded (all fonts enclosed in document, otherwise they don't translate properly)

Ad Specs
full page -- 5 1/4 wide by 8 1/4 high
half page -- 5 1/4 wide x 4 high
quarter page -- 2 1/2 wide x 4 high
eighth -- 2 and 1/2 wide and 2 high

Deliver files to: Andrey Henkin, [email protected]

Contact to reserve space:

Jim Eigo
Jazz Promo Services
269 S Route 94
Warwick, NY 10990
E-Mail: [email protected]

Ticket Info

Tickets to this year's JJA Jazz Awards celebration, a cocktail-and-supper party with musical entertainment on Tuesday, June 15 at B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill, 237 W. 42nd St. in New York City from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., are $40 to JJA members and nominees (after their two complimentary tickets) and $150 to the public. Tickets may be bought by check made out to the Jazz Journalists Association, sent c/o Arnold J. Smith, 436 State St., Brooklyn NY 11217, or by charge card at www.JazzJournalistsAwards.com, where there are photos and sound samples of many nominees, plus news of celebrity guest hosts and musical performances at the Awards. No tickets will be issued; reservations will be honored at the door, and seating is on a first come, first seated basis.

The Jazz Journalists Association (www.Jazzhouse.org) is an 18-year-old 501C3 not-for-profit organization of approximately 450 international writers, editors, broadcasters, photographers and new media professionals, with the mission of promoting the interests of journalists covering jazz. We have put on the Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, celebrating excellence in jazz and jazz journalism, annually for the past eight years, and this year will return to the site of last year's event, B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill on 42nd St. in New York City for a cocktails-and-supper party on Tuesday, June 15, from 4 to 7 p.m. We will have an auxiliary event to give “Discretionary Awards" for “Services To and Beyond Jazz" at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles on June 21.

The New York event last year drew a full house of 550 journalists, musicians, movers and shakers in the jazz industry and community; this year tickets cost $150 for the public, $40 for JJA members and nominees' guests, and $50 for walk-ups to stand at the bar (no supper). We will have a silent auction of jazz photography, the proceeds of which will go to benefit the Jazz Foundation of America's Musicians Emergency Fund. We will have celebrity hosts and presenters (Paul Shafer, Avery Brooks, Keith David, Eric Bogosian, Jayne Cortez, Dr. Billy Taylor, Marian McPartland, Joe Piscopo have served in those positions in the past) and musical performances (last year by the Wallace Roney Quintet, Judi Silvano and James Williams in tribute to Mal Waldron, the New Jazz Composers Octet, and the David Hazeltine trio). We are giving Discretionary Awards in New York to Arthur Barnes, vp of HIP Health Plan; Jarett Lilien, CEO of E-Trade; Les Paul, guitarist, inventor and recordings innovator; Rudy Van Gelder, recording engineer extraordinaire; Sandy Jackson, jazz coordinator of the Veritas Foundation's Friends of Charlie Parker benefit; and Bethany Bultman, a philanthropist who helped start the New Orleans Musicians clinic. In LA our Discretionary Awards are going to jazz composer/pianist Horace Silver (to be presented by composer-arranger-bandleader Gerald Wilson), jazz activist LaRue Brown, and two doctors who treated the late Billy Higgins for liver cancer. Music in LA will be provided by Jeff Gauthier, Nils Cline, and a coterie of LA's leading progressive musicians.

The JJA's sponsors for past Jazz Awards have included Pfizer, Inc.; Verve UK; BMI; Blue Note Records; Baldwin Pianos; Whole Foods Market, HEI Arts International; the JVC Jazz Festival; Continuum (publishers); Anheuser Busch; Columbia Legacy; Watson-Guptil Publications; ECM Records; WBGO-FM; Basin St. Records; Palmetto Records; the Iridium Jazz Club; the Blue Note Jazz Club; Jazz and Blues Company/KRML Radio; JustinTime Records, Dreyfus Jazz Records, Maxjazz Records, Borders Books and Music, the New School University Jazz program; Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall; AllAboutJazz; Jazziz; and www.JazzCorner.com.