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JJA Jazz Awards 2007 Winners

We publish the list of Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards 2007 winners. The results were announced at the ceremony at the Jazz Standard in New York City on June 28th.

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Andrew Hill
Musician of the Year Ornette Coleman
Up & Coming Musician of the Year Anat Cohen
Jazz Album of the Year Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar) Ornette Coleman
Jazz Reissue of the Year, Single CD Music Written for Monterey 1965 Not Heard: At UCLA 1965 (CME-Sunnyside) Charles Mingus
Jazz Reissue of the Year, Boxed Set The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (Riverside) Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Jazz Record Label of the Year ECM
Jazz Events Producer of the Year Patricia Nicholson Parker – Vision Festival/Arts for Art, Inc.
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 Roberta Gambarini
Latin Jazz Album of the Year Simpatico (ArtistShare) Brian Lynch & Eddie Palmieri
Small Ensemble Group of the Year Ornette Coleman Quartet
Large Ensemble of the Year Charles Tolliver Big Band
Trumpeter of the Year Dave Douglas
Trombonist of the Year Wycliffe Gordon
Player of the Year of Instruments Rare in Jazz Scott Robinson, multi-reeds
Alto Saxophonist of the Year Ornette Coleman
Tenor Saxophonist of the Year Sonny Rollins
Soprano Saxophonist of the Year Dave Liebman
Baritone Saxophonist of the Year Gary Smulyan
Clarinetist of the Year Anat Cohen
Flutist of the Year Frank Wess
Pianist of the Year Andrew Hill
Organ-keyboards of the Year Joey DeFrancesco
Guitarist of the Year Pat Metheny
Acoustic Bassist of the Year Dave Holland
Electric Bassist of the Year Steve Swallow
Strings Player of the Year Regina Carter
Mallets Player of the Year Bobby Hutcherson
Percussionist of the Year Cyro Baptista
Drummer of the Year Roy Haynes
Jazz Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award Francis Davis
Excellence in Jazz Broadcasting — The Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award Bob Porter
Excellence in Photography — The Lona Foote–Bob Parent Award Gene Martin
Excellence in Newspaper, Magazine or Online Feature or Review Writing — The Helen Dance–Robert Palmer Award Nate Chinen
Best Periodical Covering Jazz JazzTimes
Best Website Concentrating on Jazz AllAboutJazz.com
Best Book About Jazz The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records (W. W. Norton) Ashley Kahn
Best Jazz Photo of the Year John Abbott
A Team Awards (for activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz) to: Leslie Johnson, publisher of the Mississippi Rag;

Bob Koester, owner of Chicago's Jazz Record Mart and Delmark Records;

Orrin Keepnews, record producer and writer;

Donald Harrison, artistic director, and Bill Taylor, executive director of the New Orleans-based Tipitina's Foundation;

Clint Rosemond of The World Stage for inner city-outreach programs;

Mark Masters of the American Jazz Institute;

Dr. F. King Alexander, the President of the Cal State University of Long Beach, chairman of the Board of KJAZZ 88.1 FM;

Jose Rizo and Councilwoman Jan Perry for their work with the Board of the Dunbar Economic Development Corporation in support of the Central Avenue Jazz Festival



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