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JJA Nominations

2016 JJA Awards
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its 2016 awards nominees. For Lifetime Achievement In Jazz, the nominees are:

Bucky Pizzarelli
Charles Lloyd
Chick Corea
Bobby Hutcherson
Henry Threadgill

For Musician Of The Year:

Charles Lloyd
Maria Schneider
Vijay Iyer

Rifftides is nominated for Blog Of The Year against tough competition, Ethan Iverson’s Do The Math and Marc Myers’s JazzWax.

Doug Ramsey is nominated for The Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award For Writing In The Year 2015.

To see the nominees in all 41 categories of music and journalism, go here. Winners will be announced at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City in June.

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