{"id":320,"date":"2010-06-11T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/06\/_why_give_jazz_awards\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:51:27","slug":"_why_give_jazz_awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/06\/_why_give_jazz_awards.html","title":{"rendered":"Why of the Jazz Journalists Assn&#8217;s Jazz Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Why give Jazz Awards? See<br \/>\nmy <a href=\"http:\/\/cityarts.info\/2010\/06\/10\/now-let-us-praise-all-jazz-people\/\"><span style=\"color: #001ee6;\">new column in City Arts<\/span><\/a> re the event Monday<br \/>\n6\/14 at City Winery in NYC, produced by the Jazz Journalists Assoc.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/HM-and-Kurt-Elling-jazz-awa.jpg\" alt=\"HM-and-Kurt-Elling-jazz-awa.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif;\">(Full disclosure: I&#8217;m deeply involved &#8212; as left, last year presenting Kurt Elling his statuette for Best Male Vocalist, <strong>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/enidenidfarber.photoworkshop.com\/\">Enid Farber<\/a>.<\/strong> See us <i>this<\/i> year, streaming live video online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.JJAJazzAwards.org\">www.JJAJazzAwards.org<\/a>, with satellite parties in Albuquerque, Berkeley, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Scottsdale, and tweeting using the hashtag #jjajazzawards)<\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Below, Clifton Anderson in 2009, with Awards for Sonny Rollins, photo also by Enid Farber.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/CAndersonRollinsAwardsCROP.jpg\" alt=\"CAndersonRollinsAwardsCROP.jpg\" width=\"458\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">howardmandel.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe by Email <\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe by RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why give Jazz Awards? See my new column in City Arts re the event Monday 6\/14 at City Winery in NYC, produced by the Jazz Journalists Assoc.\u00c2\u00a0 (Full disclosure: I&#8217;m deeply involved &#8212; as left, last year presenting Kurt Elling his statuette for Best Male Vocalist, photo by Enid Farber. See us this year, streaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[780,843,844,29,842,779,595,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-city-winery","8":"tag-clifton-anderson","9":"tag-enid-farber","10":"tag-jazz-awards","11":"tag-jazz-journalists-association-jazz-awards","12":"tag-jja-jazz-awards","13":"tag-kurt-elling","14":"tag-sonny-rollins","15":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-5a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":215,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/06\/zx1_pocket_camera_stars_at_200.html","url_meta":{"origin":320,"position":0},"title":"Zx1 pocket camera stars at 2009 Jazz Awards!","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"June 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I love My Youtube! -- now hosting video clips from my handy new Kodak go-anywhere device\u00a0of jazz celebs, players and presenters at the Jazz Journalists Association's 13th annual Jazz Awards party at the Jazz Standard (NYC)\u00a0June 16, shot by\u00a0debuting cinematographer R. 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