Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Southern California Fires Hit the Jazz Community
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
Each year, The Jazz Journalist Association—a nonprofit that supports mediamakers in jazz—offers up a list of notable advocates of the genre who have worked to better their local scenes. This year’s honorees, which were announced Saturday, are below.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Deanna Relyea
Atlanta: Gwen Redding
Baltimore: Sean Jones
Bay Area, California: Richard Hadlock
Birmingham: Leah Tucker
Boston: Ran Blake
Brooklyn, New York: Matthew Garrison & Fortuna Sung
Capital Region, New York: Susan Cohen Brink
Charlotte, North Carolina: Lonnie & Ocie Davis
Chicago: Harriet Choice
Cleveland: Terri Pontremoli
Denver, Colorado: Norman Provizer
Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Dr. Ronald B. Weber
Hartford, Connecticut: Ed Krech
Indianapolis: Albert Coleman
Los Angeles: Billy Mitchell
Minneapolis: Patty Peterson
New York: Roberta Alloway
Philadelphia: Anthony Tidd
Portland, Oregon: Ron Steen
Seattle: Jay Thomas
St. Louis: Gene Dobbs Bradford
Tallahassee, Florida: Jan & Mark Pudlow
Washington, DC: Sunny Sumter
JJA’s full announcement can be read here. DB
Gerald and John Clayton at the family home in Altadena during a photo shoot for the June 2022 cover of DownBeat. The house was lost during the Los Angeles fires.
Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
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