Special Citations
February 19, 2025
Our nomination process is focused on the current efforts of individual authors/journalists. In 2024, however, projects collecting historic and more recent writings by a variety of authors made important contributions to the jazz library, and were found to be worthy of special acknowledgement.
STEVEN A. CERRA: For years, Cerra has focused on historic articles and interviews on his JazzProfiles blog. Beginning last year, he added self-published paperback and e-book compendiums of historic writings, including individual volumes on Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, Stan Kenton and Gerry Mulligan, and three volumes on West Coast Jazz. Each is an invaluable research tool, providing a sense of how important artists and trends were viewed at the time by the music’s leading commentators.
