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| The Jazz Journalists Association: 2006 Jazz Award Winners The Jazz Journalists Association recently held its tenth annual Jazz Awards, honoring jazz musicians and their supporters, on Monday, June 19, at B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill in New York City. In attendance at the sold-out event were over 500 musicians, journalists, photographers, and industry executives. There were musical performances by the Dewey Redman Ensemble, the Sy Johnson Quartet featuring saxophonist Craig Handy, T.C. III, the Anheuser-Busch/Jazzmobile Vocal Competition winner, and pianist Ezra Weiss, who performed his ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award-winning composition "Winter Machine, " featuring trumpeter Michael Phillip Mossman, alto saxophonist Antonio Hart, tenor saxophonist Kelly Roberge, and bassist Corcoran Holt. Based on votes cast by over 400 JJA members (writers, broadcasters, photographers and new media professionals worldwide), and presented at a fundraiser supporting the non-profit JJA's education, audience-outreach and professional mentoring initiatives, awards were given in 41 categories of achievement. The JJA also presented "A Team" Awards for the advocates, altruists, aiders, and abettors of the jazz art form. Here is the complete list of winners of 2006 JJA Jazz Awards: Lifetime Achievement in Jazz - Roy Haynes; Musician of the Year - Sonny Rollins; Up & Coming Musician of the Year - Dafnis Prieto; Jazz Album of the Year - Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note); Jazz Reissue of the Year, single CD - Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman, Song X (Nonesuch); Jazz Reissue of the Year, boxed set - Miles Davis, The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (Columbia/Legacy) Original Recordings by Stan Tonkel; Compiled by Adam Holzman & Bob Belden; Jazz Record Label of the Year - Concord Music Group, Concord/Fantasy/Telarc; Jazz Events Producer of the Year - George Wein, Festival Productions; Jazz Composer of the Year - Andrew Hill; Jazz Arranger of the Year - Maria Schneider; Male Jazz Singer of the Year - Kurt Elling; Female Jazz Singer of the Year - Dianne Reeves; Latin Jazz Album of the Year - Bebo Valds, Bebo de Cuba (Calle 54); Small Ensemble Group of the Year - Wayne Shorter Quartet; Large Ensemble of the Year - Gerald Wilson Orchestra; Trumpeter of the Year - Dave Douglas; Trombonist of the Year - Wycliffe Gordon; Player of the Year of Instruments Rare in Jazz - Toots Thielemans, harmonica; Alto Saxophonist of the Year - Phil Woods; Tenor Saxophonist of the Year - Sonny Rollins; Soprano Saxophonist of the Year - Jane Ira Bloom; Baritone Saxophonist of the Year - James Carter; Clarinetist of the Year - Paquito D'Rivera; Flutist of the Year - Sam Rivers; Pianist of the Year - Bill Charlap; Organ-keyboards of the Year - Joey DeFrancesco; Guitarist of the Year - Jim Hall; Acoustic Bassist of the Year - Ron Carter; Electric Bassist of the Year - Christian McBride; Strings Player of the Year - Regina Carter; Mallets Player of the Year - Joe Locke; Percussionist of the Year - Ray Barretto; Drummer of the Year - Paul Motian; Jazz Journalism Categories: Jazz Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award - Howard Mandel; Excellence in Jazz Broadcasting/the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award - Eric Jackson (WGBH-FM); Excellence in Photography/the Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award - Jimmy Katz; Excellence in Newspaper, Magazine or Online Feature or Review Writing/the Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award - Nate Chinen (New York Times); Best Periodical Covering Jazz - JazzTimes; Best Website Concentrating on Jazz - AllAboutJazz.com; Best Book About Jazz - Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, Doug Ramsey (Parkside); Photo of the Year - "Houston Person, All Soul" Gene Martin; 2006. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |