2003 Critic's Choice Jazz Awards

Lifetime Achievement  - Cecil Taylor 

 

Musician of the Year  - Wayne Shorter

 

Up 'n' Coming Musician of the Year  - Jason Moran

 

Album of the Year  - Footprints Live! (Verve) -- Wayne Shorter 

 

Reissue of the Year  - A Love Supreme (Impulse) -- John Coltrane 

 

Historical Box Set of the Year  - Charlie Christian, Genius of the Electric Guitar (Columbia Legacy) 

 

Record Label of the Year  - Blue Note

 

Producer of the Year tie  - George Wein (Festival Productions) - Patricia Nicholson Parker (Vision Fest)

 

Composer of the Year  - Andrew Hill

 

Cecil Taylor & Max Roach, 10 Year Reunion, Town Hall, NYC В© Enid Farber Arranger of the Year  - Maria Schneider

 

Male Vocalist of the Year  - Andy Bey

 

Female Vocalist of the Year 

 

- Cassandra Wilson 

 

Latin-Jazz Album of the Year  - Cuban Odyssey (Blue Note) -- Jane Bunnett and Spirits of Havana 

 

Combo of the Year  - Wayne Shorter Quartet

 

Dave Holland, bass, with Steve Coleman playing alto sax В© estate of Lona Foote Big Band of the Year 

 

- Dave Holland Big Band 

 

Trumpeter of the Year  - Dave Douglas

 

Trombonist of the Year  - Roswell Rudd

 

Miscellaneous Brass of the Year  - Steve Bernstein (slide trumpet)

 

Alto Saxophonist of the Year  - Greg Osby

 

Tenor Saxophonist of the Year  - Wayne Shorter

 

Soprano Saxophonist of the Year  - Jane Ira Bloom

 

@ 2002 Jazz Awards В© R. Andrew Lepley Baritone Saxophonist of the Year  - Hamiet Bluiett

 

Clarinetist of the Year  - Marty Ehrlich

 

Pianist of the Year  - Kenny Barron

 

Organ-keyboardist of the Year  - Dr. Lonnie Smith

 

Guitarist of the Year  - Russell Malone

 

Bassist of the Year  - Dave Holland

 

Electric Bassist of the Year  - Steve Swallow

 

Strings Player of the Year  В© Ronnie James - Regina Carter 

 

Mallets Player of the Year  - Stefon Harris

 

Percussionist of the Year  - Kahil El'Zabar

 

Drummer of the Year  - Matt Wilson

JAZZ JOURNALISM CATEGORIES

Lifetime Achievement in Journalism  - Gary Giddins

 

Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting -- The Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award  - Alyn Shipton - BBC Radio 3

 

Photographer of the Year -- The Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award  Sir Roland Hanna, Sept. 22, 2002 - Ken Franckling

 

Writer of the Year -- The Helen Oakley Dance-Robert Palmer Award  - Gary Giddins (Village Voice)

 

Best Periodical  - Jazz Times

 

Best Website  - www.AllAboutJazz.com

 

Best Book of the Year  - A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (Penguin Putnam), by Ashley Kahn

 

Best Photo of the Year  - John Abbott