{"id":4716,"date":"2013-05-01T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2013-05-01T21:02:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T04:02:22","slug":"4716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/05\/4716\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 JJA Awards &#038; A Gil Evans Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wayne-Shorter-JJA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4717\" alt=\"Wayne Shorter JJA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wayne-Shorter-JJA.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wayne-Shorter-JJA.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wayne-Shorter-JJA-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a>The Jazz Journalists Association today announced its members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 choices for the 2013 JJA<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4718\" alt=\"Wadada Leo Smith JJA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wadada-Leo-Smith-JJA.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wadada-Leo-Smith-JJA.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wadada-Leo-Smith-JJA-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/> awards. The organization honored saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter with its lifetime achievement award. Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith was named musician of the year. <em>Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans<\/em> is the JJA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s record of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4719 aligncenter\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: default; display: block; margin-center: auto; margin-right: auto; float: center; border-width: 0px;\" alt=\"Centennial Cover JJA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Centennial-Cover-JJA.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Centennial-Cover-JJA.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Centennial-Cover-JJA-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/>&#8221;\u00a0In addition, there are 26 jazz heroes, described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz who have had significant impact in their local communities.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For the names and photographs of winners in all 29 music categories, plus the heroes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jjajazzawards.org\/2013\/05\/2013-jja-jazz-awards-winners-music.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">go to this page<\/a> at the JJA Website.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of the Evans Centennial project, here is Chris Hunter featured on alto saxophone in a concert a year ago. We hear the Evans arrangement of Charles Mingus&#8217;s &#8220;Goodbye Porkpie Hat.&#8221; The baritone saxophone soloist is Howard Johnson, the guitar soloist Oz Noy. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Uw6oZ_6310?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>The members of this edition of the Gil Evans Orchestra:<\/p>\n<p>\nDrums, Kenwood Dennard<br \/>\nBass, Mark Egan<br \/>\nGuitar, Ryo Kawasaki<br \/>\nGuitar, Oz Noy<br \/>\nKeyboards, Gil Goldstein<br \/>\nKeyboards, Delmar Brown<br \/>\nBaritone Sax, Howard Johnson<br \/>\nTenor Sax, Alex Foster<br \/>\nAlto Sax, Chris Hunter<br \/>\nTenor Sax, Billy Harper<br \/>\nFrench Horn, John Clark<br \/>\nTuba, Bob Stewart<br \/>\nTrumpet, Miles Evans<br \/>\nTrumpet, Lew Soloff<br \/>\nTrumpet, Jon Faddis<br \/>\nTrombone, Conrad Herwig<br \/>\nTrombone, David Bargeron<br \/>\nTrombone, Tom&#8221;Bones&#8221;Malone<br \/>\nBass Trombone, Dave Taylor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jazz Journalists Association today announced its members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 choices for the 2013 JJA awards. The organization honored saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter with its lifetime achievement award. Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith was named musician of the year. Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans is the JJA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s record of the year. &#8221;\u00a0In addition, [&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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}