Jazz Journalists Awards 2007 Winners

A "Jazz Journalists Association", da qual Arnaldo DeSouteiro tem a honra de ser o único membro votante brasileiro, divulgou, dia 28 de Junho, em NY, o resultado de sua votação anual.

JJA Jazz Awards 2007 Winners

Two icons of avant-garde jazz — saxophonist-composer Ornette Coleman and pianist-composer Andrew Hill — were celebrated with highest honors at the 2007 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, during a luncheon at the Jazz Standard on June 28, attended by some 100 movers and shakers of the national jazz scene.

Voting members of the JJA, a non-profit professional organization, cited Coleman, who received a Pulitzer Prizer earlier in 2007, as Musician of the Year, Alto Saxophonist of the Year; named Sound Grammar, his quartet release on his own Sound Grammar label, Record of the Year and the quartet itself Small Group of the Year. Hill, who died of lung cancer on April 20, was voted the Jazz Award for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz, Jazz Composer of the Year, and Pianist of the Year; he had performed in trio as recently as weeks before his death.

Other top honoreees in 41 categories (detailed below) were — Anat Cohen, Up and Coming Artist and Clarinest of the Year; Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophonist of the Year, Charles Tolliver for leadeing the Big Band of the Year, and Roy Haynes, Drummer of the Year. Francis Davis, columnist for the Village Voice, contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and author of several books on music and culture, was voted recognition for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism.

Davis, Cohen, Tolliver and Haynes were among the winners and nominees in attendance, along with representatives from sponsoring organizations BMI, Boosey & Hawkes, Blue Note Records, Concord Records, ECM (voted Label of the Year), Mosaic, Iridium Jazz Club, WBGO, and past-honored JJA Lifetime Achievement in Jazz winners Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Howard Mandel, who presided over the event. Pianist Frank Kimbrough performed a tribute to Andrew Hill, following a toast by BMI's Robbin Ahrold, "To Andrew." Joanne Robinson Hill, his wife, received the Awards with acknowledgement Andrew would have loved the Award event's buffet of the Jazz Standard's acclaimed barbeque.

The following are all the winners of 2007 Jazz Awards.

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