Award / Grant News

The Man Who Created the Word "Grammy" and Other Idle Gossip

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2009

According to the Grammy Awards website, the music industry's highest honor got its name from a nationwide “name the award" contest back in 1959.

Not so according to Grammy-, Emmy- and Clio-winning writer-comedian Stan Freberg, who recently toured the Grammy Museum and emerged incensed. He says the honor's origins (and his role in them) have been erased like a bad overdub.

Here's Stan's correction and recollection:

In 1958, I was on the founding Board of Governors of the Recording Academy. ...

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Producers Select Grammy Openers

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2009

Labels once held sway over show's first acts Superstars often open the show like Prince and Beyonce. Other memorable acts have included Sting and the Police; Madonna and the gorillaz; Ricky Martin; and alicia keys with the late Frank Sinatra.

One would think such lightning-in-a-bottle Grammy openers are the brainchildren of savvy music managers and record label execs who lean on the show's producers. After all, an artist's Grammy performance translates into an immediate bump in record sales ...

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Grammy Scorecard List of Nominees/ Updated Winners

Source: Michael Ricci
February 7, 2009

Field 10 - Jazz

All other music categories:

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RECORD OF THE YEAR “Chasing Pavements," Adele “Viva La Vida," Coldplay “Bleeding Love," Leona Lewis “Paper Planes," M.I.A “Please Read the Letter," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

ALBUM OF THE YEAR “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," Coldplay “Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne “Year of the Gentleman," Ne-Yo “Raising Sand," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss “In Rainbows," Radiohead

BEST NEW ARTIST Adele Duffy Jonas Brothers Lady Antebellum Jazmine ...

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Leo Fender Honored Posthumously

Source: Michael Ricci
February 7, 2009

The Recording Academy will bestow a technical award on the guitar maker whose instruments revolutionized pop music's sound.

No invention since the phonograph more dramatically affected how popular music is made than Fender guitars, arriving as they did with the birth of rock 'n' roll. Buddy Holly was an early Fender convert; Jimi Hendrix used the Stratocaster to revolutionize the world of rock guitar playing.

Consequently, there are perhaps few people as deserving of the Recording Academy's technical award as ...

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Grammy Rehearsals with Radiohead: 'There's a Surreality to It All'

Source: Michael Ricci
February 7, 2009

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards are Sunday night, and the rehearsal schedule for today is stacked with big names -- U2, Paul McCartney, Coldplay and Stevie Wonder

But the day got off to an especially compelling start as Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead strolled in, shook off the rain and performed “15 Step" to the impressive accompaniment of the USC marching band.

Radiohead has racked up a fair number of Grammy accolades through the years (the band enters ...

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2009 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award Recipients Announced

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2009

B>Honorees to Be Recognized at ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame Ceremonies on June 16 in NYC

New York, NY: ASCAP Foundation President Marilyn Bergman has announced the recipients of the 2009 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards. This program, established in 2002, was created to encourage gifted jazz composers from throughout the United States. The recipients, who range in age from 15 to 29, are selected through a juried national competition. They receive cash awards, and will be recognized at ...

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Denise Thimes, Bosman Twins to Receive Legend Awards

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 4, 2009

Via Post-Dispatch gossip maven Deb Peterson's weekend column: Singer Denise Thimes and the multi-woodwind playing brothers Dwayne and Dwight Bosman, a.k.a. the Bosman Twins, will be among the 2009 recipients of Legend Awards from the St. Louis Argus Foundation at a luncheon to be held Saturday, February 21 at the Sheraton St. Louis City Center Hotel.Other 2009 Legend Award winners include opera singer Grace Bumbry, who will fly in from Austria to accept a special award and the ...

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Earshot Golden Ear Awards

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
February 3, 2009

THE EARSHOT JAZZ GOLDEN EAR AWARDS with HADLEY CALIMAN QUINTET, DAS VIBENBASS, and EMCEE JIM WILKE THE TRIPLE DOOR 216 Union Street, Seattle 7PM $15 general / $13 earshot members / $7 working musicians phone: 206-838-4333 Join us for Seattle’s premier Jazz Awards featuring a performance by the Hadley Caliman Quintet with Jim Wilke, emcee, and a late set by Das Vibenbass. The veteran tenor saxophonist Hadley Caliman performs with his new ...

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