By Adam Feibel Lauren Deutsch
Ron Carter, Emmet Cohen, Terri Lyne Carrington and Maria Schneider claimed some of the top honours of this year’s JJA Jazz Awards.
The winners and nominees were chosen by the votes of the members of the Jazz Journalists Association.
Carrington was named musician of the year for 2021, besting fellow nominees Schneider, Charles Lloyd and William Parker. The drummer, composer, producer and educator was recently named an NEA Jazz Master, and her latest work includes the 2019 album
Waiting Game with Social Science. The Jazz Journalists Association also named her drummer of the year.
Carter received JJA Jazz Awards’ lifetime achievement award. The Grammy-winning bassist has been one of the most prolific and respected jazz musicians over the last 60 years, first coming to fame with the Miles Davis Quintet and other prominent Blue Note artists. He then went on to blaze his own path, recording 60 albums as a leader in addition to countless more a
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Nancy Ochsenschlager receives Jazz Hero Award from Jazz Journalists Association
Nancy Ochsenschlager, the former associate producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival who has helped produce the event for 45 years in various capacities, has been honored with a Jazz Hero award by the Jazz Journalists Association. Initiated in 2001, the Jazz Hero awards honor “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz who have had significant impact in their local communities.”
Born in 1939 and raised in Aurora, Illinois, Ochsenschlager attended the University of Michigan and graduated in 1962 with a B.S. in Nursing. She spent the next dozen years working in her chosen field and, in an early indication of her adventurous spirit, traveling the world, including journeys to Central and South America, Europe and Japan for multiple years.
The New York Times, and the only “jazz release” in
Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 best records of 2017. Iyer’s Sextet was voted 2018 Jazz Group of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Iyer’s previous ECM releases include
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (2016), a collaboration with Iyer’s “hero, friend and teacher,” Wadada Leo Smith, which
The Los Angeles Times calls “haunting, meditative and transportive”;
Break Stuff (2015), with a coveted five-star rating in
DownBeat Magazine, featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio, hailed by
PopMatters as “the best band in jazz”;
Mutations (2014), featuring Iyer’s music for piano, string quartet and electronics, which “extends and deepens his range. showing a delicate, shimmering, translucent side of his playing” (