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Indies Win 50% of This Year's Grammy Awards

Source: HypeBot
February 11, 2009

Independent artists and labels had a banner year at the 2009 Grammy Awards winning 56 of the 110 awards given or just over 50% of the total prizes.

“The continued growth of independent music is underscored by the success of independent artists and labels at this year's Grammy's. Music released by artists on independent labels scored 56 Grammys Sunday night out of a total of 110 awarded including Album of the Year and Record of the Year (Robert Plant & ...

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Chick Corea & Gary Burton's "The New Crystal Silence" Earns Grammy Win for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Source: All About Jazz
February 11, 2009

On Sunday, February 8th, Chick Corea and Gary Burton, who have played and recorded as a duo, off and on, for 37 years, brought home the Grammy award in the category of Best Jazz Instrumental Album for The New Crystal Silence. This marks Coreas 15th Grammy win, and the fourth Grammy award as a duet for the Corea and Burton duo. Previously the duo won Grammys for the albums Duet (1978), Chick Corea and Gary Burton in Concert, Zurich, October ...

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Arturo O'Farrill Receives Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album

Source: Sally Fischer Public Relations
February 11, 2009

Arturo O'Farrill, director of the Purchase Latin Jazz Orchestra, received a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for Song for Chico performed by Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Zoho Music (2008).

Woodrow Wilson in All About Jazz describes the album as a showcase for O'Farrill's skill as a leader and musician. He was the pianist on the album and composed one of the eight tracks. According to Wilkins, O'Farrill adopts various cultures and instruments into his music. ...

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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

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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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