Credits: 2011 JJA Jazz Awards

2011 JJA JAZZ AWARDS COMMITTEE

Howard Mandel, producer

Yvonne Ervin, associate producer, planning

Colleen Growe, associate producer, onstage director

JoAnn Kawell, associate producer, online media

Maryclaire Sullivan, associate producer, staging

Joshua Jackson, master of ceremonies

Gala Assistants

Judy Balos, Nancy Barrell, Susan Brink,
Steve Dalachinsky, Jim Eigo, David Goldman,
Alan Hershowitz,Rosie Mandel, Carolyn McClair,
Yuko Otomo, Joseph Petrucelli,Marianne Pillsbury,
Emilie Pons, Joanne Robinson Hill, Arnold Jay Smith,
Marquia Walton, Joan Watson-Jones,Adina Williams

Publicity/Media

Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services, nominees liaison

Don Lucoff, DL Media, public relations

Kim Smith, KSmithPR, public relations

Forrest Dylan Bryant, JJA art director

Ilana Esquenazi, program book layout

Webcast production

iB Creative: G.Byron Speight, Ilan Lieman

Team Twitter (Awards social media)

Alex Rodriguez ( Chief Twitter-er)
Michael J. West,Jared Negley, Matthew Kassel

Gala Photographer

Fran Kaufman

Satellite party organizers/hosts

Yvonne Ervin/ Susan Brink
Pauline Bilsky (Boston), Omrao Brown (D.C.),
Michele Drayton (Chicago),Michael Eldridge(Arcata),
Herb & Lorene Ely(Phoenix), John Gilbreath(Seattle),
Craig Havighurst (Nashville), Susan Muscarella (Berkeley),Mark Niemann-Ross (Portland), Giovanni Russonello (D.C.),Clarence & Gerri Seay (Tallahassee),
Walcott/Poindexter Family (Boston),Floyd Webb (Chicago)

Awards/Ballot Committee

Neil Tesser, chairman, ballot committee

Laurence Donohue-Greene, ballot committee

John Abbott, photo awards consultant

Bret Primack, video awards consultant

Floyd Webb, video awards consultant



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