3/22/10

The journalists nominating Jazz Awards honorees are . . .

Sixty professional Jazz Journalists Association members filed nominations for the 40-plus categories of excellence in music-making and music documentation that the JJA's Jazz Awards honor.
Finalists for 2010 JJA Jazz Awards will be announced on April 15 -- watch this space. But to begin: here are the nominators who wracked their brains over recordings, performances, presentations and journalistic achievement from March 2009 to March 2010 -- and we'll be adding links to their sites and blogs, so please circle back to this post . . .
  • Alain Drouot
  • Alex Dutilh
  • Andrey Henkin
  • Andy Gilbert
  • Antonio Terzo
  • Becca Pulliam
  • Bill King
  • Bill Milkowski
  • Bob Blumenthal
  • Brett Delmage
  • Carol Sudhalter
  • Charles Sanders
  • David Adler
  • David Hajdu
  • Don Heckman
  • Doug Ramsey
  • Fran Kaufman
  • Francis Davis
  • Fred Kaplan
  • Gary Giddins
  • Gene Marlow
  • Geoff Himes
  • George Kanzler
  • Gordon Marshall
  • Hank Shteamer
  • Howard Mandel
  • James Hale
  • John Litweiler
  • Joseph Lang
  • Ken Dryden
  • Larry Blumenfeld
  • Laurence Donohue-Greene
  • Linda Yohn
  • Lois Gilbert
  • Lyn Horton
  • Marc Myers
  • Marcela Breton
  • Marek Lazarski
  • Marcia Hillman
  • Matthew Marshall
  • Michael Jackson
  • Mike West
  • Mitchell Seidel
  • Nancy Barrell
  • Nate Chinen
  • Neil Tesser
  • Norm Harris
  • Owen Cordle
  • Philip Booth
  • R.J. DeLuke
  • Ralph Miriello
  • Sanford Josephson
  • Stuart Broomer
  • Ted Panken
  • Thomas Jacobsen
  • Tom Conrad
  • Tony Mottola
  • Willard Jenkins
  • W. Royal Stokes
  • Yvonne Ervin