Award / Grant News

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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The Pageant Nominated for Pollstar's "Nightclub of the Year"

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 28, 2009

Via the RFT's A to Z music blog; Another St. Louis music venue is getting national recognition, as The Pageant is one of five venues across the country nominated for “Nightclub of the Year" in Pollstar's Concert Industry Awards. The Pageant presents a variety of musical styles; of interest to jazz fans, it has hosted a number of smooth jazz shows, as well as the St. Louis appearances of acts such as Zappa Plays Zappa and Herbie Hancock's ...

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Wired's First Annual Rippy Awards

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2009

AND THE WINNER IS-..... On February 8, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences will host the 51st annual Grammy Awards, a glitzy ceremony with a long, proud tradition of bloated asininity. (Our predictions: Bono will invoke the Clash and/or Nelson Mandela; Carlos Santana will perform wearing the same fedora he's had since 1973.)

Sure, this year's nods to M.I.A. and Radiohead were savvy, but the Grammys are just begging to be replaced by an ...

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Radiohead to Play Grammys

Source: JamBase
January 27, 2009

Radiohead to Perform at Grammy Awards

Radiohead According to Rollingstone.com, Radiohead will make their debut appearance at this year's Grammy Awards set for February 8 at Los Angeles' Staples Center. Radiohead has been nominated for Album of the Year three times - OK Computer and Kid A (both of which won Best Alternative Album honors) and this year's In Rainbows. RS.com is also reporting that Paul McCartney, Justin Timberlake, T.I., Kanye West and Jay-Z will take the stage.

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