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Wanted: Environmental Auditors for Greener Festival Awards

Source: JamBase
February 10, 2009

WANTED: Environmental Auditors for the Greener Festival Awards

Thirty-two music festivals around the world picked up the Greener Festival Award in 2008 for implementing sound environmental practices at their events and helping in the fight against climate change and waste. To receive the Award, each festival must submit a four page application form with details of their green efforts. To maintain the integrity of the Award, each event is independently assessed by an Environmental Auditor. The Auditors verify the accuracy ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival Records and Terence Blanchard Win Grammy

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
February 10, 2009

Monterey Jazz Festival Records Wins Grammy

Terence Blanchards Win For Best Jazz Instrumental Solo From Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival Is Historic First For Label

February 10, 2009 - The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce that Terence Blanchard, the Festivals 2007 Artist-In-Residence, has won his fourth Grammy, winning Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for his performance on the classic Dizzy Gillespie composition Be-Bop from the recording Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival by the MJF 50th ...

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Hank Jones Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2009

The Recording Academy awarded HANK JONES with a Lifetime Achievement Award this past weekend at the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards. Hank Jones is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer who throughout his illustrious career has recorded more than 60 albums under his own name and countless others as a guest. His accessible playing style has embodied the essence of mainstream jazz, making him one of the most sought after and recorded jazz pianists throughout history. 441 and Test of ...

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Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2009

= winner

Category 45

Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball Adderley (Various Artists) Gregg Field & Tom Scott, producers [Concord Jazz] Miles From India (Various Artists)

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Grammy Jazz Picks Stick to a Middle Octave

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2009

Chick Corea and Randy Brecker delivered skillfully, but they weren't the forward-looking choices.

In the can't-please-everybody proposition that is the Grammy Awards, it's difficult to find much fault in the Recording Academy's choice to again honor piano great Chick Corea with a best jazz instrumental album award.

Still, as close as Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton might have come to recapturing the magic of the classic Crystal Silence released in 1972, it's hard not to think the voters again reached ...

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The Grammys Turn up the Volume

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2009

Yes, trophies are given out. But they are secondary to the celebration of music that was displayed.

If the apocalypse is here, we might as well enjoy it. Stomp down the doors of your comfort zone. Hook up with unlikely new friends. Get noisy. Have a party before the flames consume us all.

That seemed to be the prevailing attitude during the 2009 Grammy Awards telecast Sunday night. Times are beyond tough for the music industry and cultural endeavors in ...

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Grammy Full-Tilt Performances and Defiant Bravado

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2009

At the Grammy Awards, the oldest songs win album of the year.

Raising Sand, the duo album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with sparse, evocative versions of songs that date back as far as the 1950s, won awards in pop, country and contemporary folk categories before being named album of the year.

It was one in a long line of winning albums with old songs, from last years winner, Herbie Hancocks Joni Mitchell tribute River: The Joni Letters, to ...

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Early Grammys Honor Film, Latin Music

Source: Billboard Magazine
February 9, 2009

The soundtrack for “Juno" was the first winner at the 51st annual Grammy Awards, taking home the trophy for best compilation soundtrack. Meanwhile, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer won best score soundtrack for “The Dark Knight." The Grammy for best motion picture song went to “Down To Earth" from the Disney/Pixar film “Wall-E." Thomas Newman, who co-wrote the song with singer Peter Gabriel, accepted the award. The song is also nominated for an Oscar. “Define Dancing," another collaboration by ...

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