Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2021 Jazz Awards Winners
Ron Carter and Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.by BWW News Desk
Master musician and educator Ron Carter, often credited as jazz s most recorded bassist, and author Kevin Whitehead, long-running jazz critic on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, announced today.
As trending in the greater jazz community, creative women earned significant recognition: Composer-orchestra leader Maria Schneider, whose album Data Lords (ArtistShare) is Record of the Year, and drummer-producer educator Terri Lyne Carrington, Jazz Musician of the Year, won multiple awards. Women prevailed in several other instrumentalists categories, too.