Jazz Journalist Association Awards 2003, penghargaan yang setiap tahun rutin diadakan oleh organisasi Jazz Journalists Association telah menentukan para finalisnya dari kategori-kategori yang telah ditentukan. Finalis ini dipilih dari pemilihan yang dilakukan oleh 90 anggota Jazz Journalists Association.
Ada beberapa hal yang menarik dari daftar para finalis diantaranya adalah masuknya pemenang Grammy Awards Norah Jones dalam kategori “Up ‘n’ coming Musician of The Year” bersaing dengan para musisi jazz muda yang memang sedang naik daun seperti pianis Jason Moran, drumer/percusionist John Hollenbeck dan pianis Vijay Iyer.
Selain itu adalah yang menarik dicermati adalah persiangan antara para musisi jazz muda dan para musisi jazz senior, misalnya pada kategori “Jazz Composer of the Year”, para komposer jazz muda seperti Dave Douglas dan Maria Schneider bersaing dengan senior mereka seperti Andrew Hill dan Wayne Shorter, juga di “Jazz Pianis of The Year” dimana pemain muda Brad Mehldau dan Jason Moran bersaing dengan seniornya yaiyu Keith jarrett dan Kenny Baron, hal ini juga terjadi di kategori-kategori lainnya. Hal ini menunjukan dalam kancah musik jazz para pemain senior atau generasi tua masih eksis dan diakui kepiawaiannya sedangkan regenarasi dari musisi-musisi jazz muda sudah bisa menyamai kemampuan dari para senior mereka, tinggal kita lihat saja hasilnya apakah para musisi muda ini bisa menggeser dominasi para senior mereka, kita tunggu saja hasil pemenangnya yang akan diumumkan tanggal 17 Juni 2003 di B. B. King’s Blues Club and Grill, 245 W. 42nd St, USA.
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1) Lifetime Achievement in Jazz
Cecil Taylor
Elvin Jones
Lee Konitz
Roy Haynes
Wayne Shorter
2) Musician of the Year
Dave Douglas
Dave Holland
Joe Lovano
Matt Shipp
Wayne Shorter
3) Up ‘n’ Coming Musician of the Year
Jason Moran
Jeremy Pelt
John Hollenbeck
Norah Jones
Vijay Iyer
4) Jazz Album of the Year
Always Let Me Go (ECM) — Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette
Footprints Live! (Verve) — Wayne Shorter
Modernistic (Blue Note) — Jason Moran
Peace Pipe (Palmetto) — Ben Allison
What Goes Around (ECM) — Dave Holland Big Band
5) Reissue of the Year
A Love Supreme (Impulse) — John Coltrane
Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (Emarcy/Verve)
Live at the Golden Circle (Blue Note) — Ornette Coleman Trio
Money Jungle (Blue Note) — Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Monk’s Dream (Columbia Legacy) — Thelonious Monk
6) Historical Box Set of the Year
Charlie Christian, Genius of the Electric Guitar (Columbia Legacy)
Complete Miles Davis at Montreux (Columbia Legacy/Warner Bros. Switzerland)
Grant Green: Retrospetive (Blue Note)
The Classic Columbia and Okeh Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang Recordings (Mosaic)
The Herbie Hancock Box (Columbia Legacy)
7) Record Label of the Year
Blue Note
ECM
Fantasy/Milestone
Palmetto
Thirsty Ear
Verve
8) Jazz Producer of the Year
Andre Menard (Festival International de Jazz de Montreal)
George Wein (Festival Productions)
Patricia Nicholson Parker (Vision Fest)
Randall Kline (SFJazz)
Tim Jackson (Monterey Jazz Festival)
Todd Barkan and Wynton Marsalis (Jazz@Lincoln Center)
9) Jazz Composer of the Year
Andrew Hill
Ben Allison
Dave Douglas
Dave Holland
Maria Schneider
Wayne Shorter
10) Jazz Arranger of the Year
Bill Holman
Dave Holland
Jim McNeeley
Maria Schneider
Toshiko Akiyoshi
11) Male Jazz Vocalist of the Year
Andy Bey
Giacomo Gates
Kevin Mahagony
Kurt Elling
Mark Murphy
12) Female Jazz Vocalist of the Year
Abbey Lincoln
Cassandra Wilson
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dianne Reeves
Patricia Barber
13) Latin Jazz Album of the Year
Quarteto, Aché! (Khaeon) — Bobby Sanabria
Fantasia Cubana (Blue Note) — Chucho Valdes
La Perfecta II (Concord) — Eddie Palmieri
Now Is Another Time (Justin Time) — David Murray Latin Big Band Cuban
Odyssey (Blue Note) — Jane Bunnett and Spirits of Havana
14) Small Jazz Group of the Year
Dave Holland Quintet
Hancock/Brecker/Hargrove Directions In Music
Keith Jarrett Trio
The Bad Plus
Vandermark Five
Wayne Shorter Quartet
15) Big Jazz Band of the Year
ICP Orchestra
Maria Schneider
Mingus Big Band
Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band
16) Jazz Trumpeter of the Year
Brian Lynch
Dave Douglas
Ingrid Jensen
Nicholas Payton
Roy Hargrove
Tom Harrell
17) Jazz Trombonist of the Year
Conrad Herwig
Robin Eubanks
Roswell Rudd
Steve Turre
Wycliff Gordon
18) Miscellaneous Jazz Brass of the Year
Bob Stewart (tuba)
Howard Johnson (tuba)
Marcus Rojas (tuba)
Steve Bernstein (slide trumpet)
Tom Varner (french horn)
19) Jazz Alto Saxophonist of the Year
Gary Bartz
Greg Osby
Kenny Garrett
Lee Konitz
Phil Woods
20) Jazz Tenor Saxophonist of the Year
Chris Potter
Dave Murray
Joe Lovano
Sonny Rollins
Wayne Shorter
21) Jazz Soprano Saxophonist of the Year
Dave Liebman
Jane Bunnett
Jane Ira Bloom
Steve Lacy
Wayne Shorter
22) Jazz Baritone Saxophonist of the Year
Clare Daly
Gary Smulyan
Hamiet Bluiett
James Carter
Ronnie Cuber
23) Jazz Clarinetist of the Year
Ken Peplowski
Kenny Davern
Marty Ehrlich
Paquito D’Rivera
Perry Robinson
24) Jazz Pianist of the Year
Brad Mehldau
Jason Moran
Keith Jarrett
Kenny Barron
Matthew Shipp
25) Jazz Organ-keyboardist of the Year
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Jimmy Smith
Joey De Francesco
John Medeski
Larry Goldings
26) Jazz Guitarist of the Year
Bill Frisell
Jim Hall
John Scofield
Pat Metheny
Russell Malone
27) Jazz Bassist of the Year
Christian McBride
Ron Carter
Scott Colley
William Parker
28) Jazz Electric Bassist of the Year
Christian McBride
John Patitucci
Marcus Miller
Richard Bona
Steve Swallow
29) Jazz Strings Player of the Year
Billy Bang
Mamadou Diabate
Mark Feldman
Mat Maneri
Regina Carter
30) Jazz Mallets Player of the Year
Bobby Hutcherson
Gary Burton
Joe Locke
Stefon Harris
Steve Nelson
31) Jazz Percussionist of the Year
Giovanni Hidalgo
Kahil El’Zabar
Poncho Sanchez
Ray Barretto
Trilok Gurtu
32) Jazz Drummer of the Year
Brian Blade
Elvin Jones
Jack DeJohnette
Jeff “Tain” Watts
Matt Wilson
Roy Haynes
Jazz Journalists Categories
1) Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism
Bob Blumenthal
Francis Davis
Gary Giddins
Gene Lees
Howard Mandel
Mike Zwerin
2) Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Broadcasting — the Willis Conover/Marian
McPartland Award
Alyn Shipton – BBC Radio 3
Chuck Niles – KKJZ (Long Beach, CA)
Gary Walker – WBGO (Newark, NJ)
Jim Wilke – KPLU/Public Radio International (Seattle, WA)
Nancy Wilson, “Jazz Profiles” (NPR)
Ted Panken – WKCR (New York, NY)
3) Jazz Photographer of the Year — the Lona Foote/Bob Parent Award
Alan Nahagian
Jack Vartoogian
Jimmy Katz
Ken Franckling
Lee Tanner
4) Jazz Writer of the Year — The Helen Oakley Dance/Robert Palmer Award
Ben Ratliff (New York Times)
Bill Milkowski (Jazz Times, Jazziz, etc.)
Gary Giddins (Village Voice)
Howard Mandel (Down Beat, Musical America, etc.)
Mark Miller (Toronto Star)
5) Best Periodical Covering Jazz
Down Beat
Cadence
Coda
Jazz Times
Jazziz
6) Best Website Covering Jazz
AllAboutJazz.com
Allmusic.com
Ejazznews.com
Jazzcorner.com
Jazztimes.com
7) Best Book on Jazz
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album (Penguin
Putnam), by Ashley Kahn
Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker (Knopf), by James Gavin
Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce (Knopf), by
Alfred Appel
A Jazz Odyssey: The Life of Oscar Peterson (Continuum Publishing Group), by
Oscar Peterson and Richard Palmer
Roy Eldridge – Little Jazz Giant (Bayou Jazz Lives) (Continuum Publishing
Group), by John Chilton
So What: The Life of Miles Davis (Simon & Schuster), by John Szwed
Tonight At Noon: A Love Story (Pantheon Books), by Sue Graham Mingus
