Jazz Journalists Association Awards 2004

[Guest Chaney]

Jazz Journalists Association Eighth Annual Jazz Awards W i n n e r s !

Nominated finalists for the Jazz Journalists Awards 2004 are listed below in alphabetical order by first names. These finalists represent pluralities of votes awarded to nominees by members of the Jazz Journalists Association. Ties in nomination voting produced four or six nominees in some categories. There will only be one winner of the Award in each category.

Full members of the JJA voted for one finalist in each category. Deadline for voting was 6 p.m., May 12, 2004.

The Nominees and Winners

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz (past winners: Benny Carter, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, John Lewis, Clark Terry, Cecil Taylor)

Dave Brubeck - Winner!

Hank Jones

Marian McPartland

Roy Haynes

Wayne Shorter

Musician of the Year (achievement in sound recordings, live concert performances and overall presence, April 15, 2003-March 20, 2004)

Dave Douglas

Jason Moran

Wayne Shorter - Winner!

Wynton Marsalis

Up & Coming Musician of the Year

Jamie Cullum

Jeremy Pelt

Lizz Wright

Miguel Zenon

Vijay Iyer - Winner!

Jazz Album of the Year (Issued April 15, 2003 - March 20, 2004)

Andrew Hill, Passing Ships (Blue Note)

Branford Marsalis, Romare Bearden Revealed (Marsalis Music)

Dave Holland, Extended Play (ECM)

Jason Moran, The Bandwagon (Blue Note)

Wayne Shorter, Alegria (Verve) - Winner!

Jazz Reissue of the Year, single CD

Duke Ellington, Ellington Uptown (Columbia Legacy)

Duke Ellington, Festival Session (Columbia Legacy)

Rod Levitt, The Dynamic Sound Patterns Of The Rod Levitt Orchestra

Sam Rivers, Fusia Swing Song (Blue Note) - Winner!

Jazz Reissue of the Year, boxed set

Complete Roy Eldridge Studio Recordings on Verve (Mosaic)

Count Basie, America's #1 Band (Columbia Legacy)

Dexter Gordon, The Complete Trio & Quartet Studio Recordings (Steeplechase)

Miles Davis, In Person Friday & Saturday Nights At The Blackhawk [original recording remastered] (Columbia Legacy)

Miles Davis, The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (Columbia Legacy) - Winner!

Jazz Record Label of the Year

Blue Note - Winner!

Concord

ECM

Maxjazz

Mosaic

Palmetto

Jazz Events Producer of the Year

Andre Menard (Festival International de Jazz de Montreal)

George Wein (Festival Productions) - Winner!

Randall Kline (SFJazz)

Tim Jackson (Monterey Jazz Festival)

Todd Barkan (Jazz@Lincoln Center)

Jazz Composer of the Year

Andrew Hill

Carla Bley

Dave Douglas

Maria Schneider - Winner!

Myra Melford

Jazz Arranger of the Year

Bill Holman

Gerald Wilson

Gil Goldstein

Maria Schneider - Winner!

Slide Hampton

Male Jazz Singer of the Year

Andy Bey - Winner!

Curtis Stigers

Kevin Mahagony

Kurt Elling

Mark Murphy

Female Jazz Singer of the Year

Abbey Lincoln

Cassandra Wilson - Winner!

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dianne Reeves

Lizz Wright

Sheila Jordan

Latin Jazz Album of the Year

Bebo Valdes & Diego El Cigala, Lagrimas Negras (BMG)

Chris Washburne & The Syotos Band, Paradise in Trouble (Jazzheads)

Chucho Valdes, New Conceptions (Blue Note) - Winner!

Eddie Palmieri, Ritmo Caliente (Concord Picante)

Poncho Sanchez, Out of Sight! (Concord Picante)

Small Ensemble Group of the Year (octet or smaller)

Bad Plus

Branford Marsalis Quartet

Dave Douglas Quintet

Dave Holland Quintet

Wayne Shorter Quartet - Winner!

Large Ensemble of the Year (nonet or larger, including big bands, jazz orchestras, contemporary symphonies, et. al.)

Carla Bley Big Band

Dave Holland Big Band - Winner!

Gerald Wilson Orchestra

Joe Lovano Nonet

Maria Schneider Orchestra

Mingus Big Band

Trumpeter of the Year

Dave Douglas - Winner!

Nicholas Payton

Roy Hargrove

Tom Harrell

Wynton Marsalis

Trombonist of the Year

Robin Eubanks

Roswell Rudd - Winner!

Slide Hampton

Steve Turre

Wycliffe Gordon

Miscellaneous Instrumentalist of the Year

Bela Fleck, banjo

James Carter, bass saxophone

Steve Turre, shells

Toots Thielemans, harmonica - Winner!

Alto Saxophonist of the Year

Bobby Watson

Greg Osby

Lee Konitz - Winner!

Ornette Coleman

Steve Coleman

Tenor Saxophonist of the Year

Chris Potter - Winner!

Joe Lovano

Michael Brecker

Sonny Rollins

Wayne Shorter

Soprano Saxophonist of the Year

Dave Liebman

Evan Parker

Jane Ira Bloom

Steve Lacy - Winner!

Wayne Shorter

Baritone Saxophonist of the Year

Gary Smulyan - Winner!

Hamiet Bluiett

James Carter

John Surman

Ronnie Cuber

Clarinetist of the Year

Buddy DeFranco

Don Byron

Michael Moore

Paquito D'Rivera - Winner!

Perry Robinson

Flutist of the Year

Dave Valentin

Frank Wess - Winner!

James Newton

Jane Bunnett

Lew Tabackin

Pianist of the Year

Cecil Taylor

Hank Jones - Winner!

Jason Moran

Keith Jarrett

Kenny Barron

Organ-keyboards of the Year

Dr. Lonnie Smith - Winner!

Joey DeFrancesco

John Medeski

Larry Goldings

Sam Yahel

Guitarist of the Year

Bill Frisell - Winner!

Jim Hall

John Scofield

Pat Martino

Russell Malone

Acoustic Bassist of the Year

Charlie Haden

Christian McBride

Dave Holland - Winner!

John Patitucci

Ron Carter

William Parker

Electric Bassist of the Year

Christian McBride

Marcus Miller

Richard Bona

Steve Swallow - Winner!

Victor Wooten

Strings Player of the Year (violin, cello, kora, harp, etc.)

Billy Bang

Mark Feldman

Peggy Lee

Regina Carter - Winner!

Mallets Player of the Year (vibes, marimba, etc.)

Bobby Hutcherson

Gary Burton

Joe Locke

Stefon Harris - Winner!

Steve Nelson

Percussionist of the Year

Cyro Baptista

Giovanni Hidalgo

Kahil El'Zabar

Ray Barretto - Winner!

Trilok Gurtu

Drummer of the Year

Elvin Jones

Hamid Drake

Jeff "Tain" Watts

Matt Wilson

Roy Haynes - Winner!

Jazz Journalism Categories

Jazz Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award (past winners: Whitney Balliett, Stanley Dance, Nat Hentoff, Dan Morgenstern, Ira Gitler, Gary Giddins)

Bob Rusch

Francis Davis

Gene Lees - Winner!

Howard Mandel

Stanley Crouch

Excellence in Jazz Broadcasting/the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award (This has been turned into a one-time-only award, and your three nominees should come from *different* stations, according to the ballot committee. Past winners, thus ineligible, are: Neil Tesser, Marian McPartland, Dr. Billy Taylor, Phil Schaap, Michael Bourne, Kenny Washington, Alyn Shipton)

Bob Parlocha (WFMT/Jazz Satellite Network)

Leigh Kamman (Minnesota Public Radio)

Linda Yohn (WEMU-FM)

Rhonda Hamilton (WBGO-FM)

Steve Schwartz (WGBH-FM, Boston) - Winner!

Excellence in Photography/the Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award (This has become, de facto, a one-time-only-award, recognizing sustained excellence rather than excellence over the preceeding year. Past winners: William Claxton, William Gottlieb, Herman Leonard, Chuck Stewart, Enid Farber, Ken Franckling)

Jack Vartoogian

Jimmy Katz

Lauren Deutsch

Lee Tanner - Winner!

Lourdes Delgado

Mitchell Seidel

Excellence in Newspaper, Magazine or Online Feature or Review Writing/the Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award

Ben Ratliff (The New York Times)

Bill Milkowski (JazzTimes, etc.) - Winner!

Francis Davis (The Atlantic, etc.)

Kevin Whitehead (Chicago Sun Times, Down Beat)

Mark Miller (Globe & Mail, Toronto)

Best Periodical Covering Jazz

Cadence

Coda

Down Beat

Jazz Times - Winner!

Jazziz

Signal to Noise

Best Website Concentrating on Jazz

www.AllAboutJazz.com - Winner!

www.Jazzcorner.com

JazzInstituteofChicago.com

www.JazzTimes.com

Best Book About Jazz

Blue Note Records: The Biography, Richard Cook (Pimlico)

Cubano Be, Cubano Bop - One Hundred Years Of Jazz In Cuba, Leonard Acosta (Smithsonian Institution Press)

I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone, Nina Simone with Steven Cleary (Da Capo)

Jazz and Its Discontents, Francis Davis (Da Capo)

Myself Among Others, George Wein with Nate Chinen (Da Capo) - Winner!

Best Photo of the Year (View Entries)

Bill Smith

C. Andrew Hovan

Dr. Jazz

Enid Farber

Howard A. Gitelson

Jim Wilke

John Abbott - Winner!

John R. Fowler

Ken Franckling

Laurence Svirchev

Lee Tanner

Lourdes Delgado

Michael Jackson

Michael Wilderman

Mike Dvorak

Mitchell Seidel

Peter Gannushkin

R. Andrew Lepley

Ronnie James

Rozanne Levine

Steve Sussman

Sue Auclair

Tom Mallison

Victor Ovchinnikov

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The Jazz Journalists Association "A" Team Award for Advocates, Altruists, Aiders and Abettors 2004

Arthur H. Barnes

R. Jarrett Lilien

Sandy Jackson

Bethany Bultman

Rudy Van Gelder

Les Paul

Horace Silver

Chuck Niles

LaRue Brown Watson

Dr. Margaret Ray

Dr. Paul Martin

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Hooray for sometime OrganissimO poster Steve Schwartz!!! The only decent DJ on the waves in Boston. Anybody who opens his show with Parlan / Turrentine "Wadin'" gets big !

And kudos to McMaster for his work on "Fuchsia Swing Song"... sonically stellar!!

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Best Website Forum Concentrating on Jazz

www.organissimo.org/forum - Winner!

[John B]

Nice to see Vijay Iyer get some recognition. I've really enjoyed all of his discs that I have heard.

[Rooster_Ties]

Best Website Forum Concentrating on Jazz

www.organissimo.org/forum - Winner!

Ain't that the truth!!

[Brad]

I'm puzzled why Fuchsia Swing Song got reissue of the year since it was available as a Mosaic until recently whereas I don't believe Ellington Uptown has been available for awhile.