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Singing the Blues About Gap in Honors
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Michael Ricci
Why have so few blues artists received the Kennedy Center Honors? Because their music isn't uplifting, which the awards prize.
The celebration of a famous life always poses a dilemma for storytellers because it means having to decide what is relevant and what can be left on the editing floor. For those who received the Kennedy Center Honors this month, their lives are examined through their creative triumphs and they are given a national pat on the back for their ...
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Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Awards
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All About Jazz
The Recording Academy has named Gene Autry, the Blind Boys Of Alabama, the Four Tops, Hank Jones, Brenda Lee, Dean Martin and Tom Paxton as recipients of its Lifetime Achievement Award.
George Avakian, Elliott Carter, and Allen Toussaint are honored with the Trustees Award. Clarence “Leo" Fender and Universal Audio will receive the Technical GRAMMY Award. The special ceremony will be held during Grammy Week on Saturday, Feb. 7, and a formal acknowledgment will be made during the 51st Annual ...
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Autry, Blind Boys Get Lifetime Achievement Grammys
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Billboard Magazine
GGene Autry, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Four Tops, Hank Jones, Brenda Lee, Dean Martin and Tom Paxton all will receive the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony on Feb. 7, and be acknowledged during the Grammy telecast the next evening. In addition, George Avakian, Elliott Carter and Allen Toussaint will be honored with the Trustees Award, and Clarence “Leo" Fender and Universal Audio will receive the Technical Grammy Award. The Lifetime Achievement Award honors artistic contributions ...
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Blues Awards: B.B., Guy, Bishop
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JamBase
30TH ANNUAL BLUES MUSIC AWARDS CONFIRMED FOR MAY 7 IN MEMPHIS, TN MANNISH BOYS TOP NOMINATIONS WITH SIX; OTHERS NOMINATED INCLUDE BUDDY GUY, B.B. KING, ELVIN BISHOP, MAGIC SLIM
WHAT: The Blues Music Awards WHEN: Thursday, May 7, 2009 WHERE: Cook Convention Center, 255 N. Main, Memphis, TN TICKETS: $125, available December 16, 2008 via www.blues.org or 901.527.2583 x10. (Tables of 10 are $1200.)
Elvin ...
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Blues Foundation Nominates Singer-Songwriter Jean Shy for "Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year"
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All About Jazz
MEMPHIS, TN - The Blues Foundation nominates King Edward Records Artist JEAN SHY for the 2009 Blues Music Awards in the category of “Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year,” with her new CD “The Blues Got Soul.” The Blues Music Awards are recognized as the highest honor given to Blues Artists. This is Jean Shy’s first nomination.
Born in the Blues capitol of the world “Chicago", her vocal Background had its beginning in Gospel Music. Jean is definitely a ...
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Dave Brubeck, 88 Keys, 88 Years, Another Honor
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
On Tuesday, Dave Brubeck was inducted into the California Hall of Fame along with eleven others including actors Jane Fonda and Jack Nicholson, fitness maven Jack LaLanne, musician and producer Quincy Jones, chef Alice Waters and -- posthumously -- Theodore Geiss (Dr. Seuss), scientist Linus Pauling, architect Julia Morgan, and Dorothea Lange, the photographer best known for documenting the human toll of the Great Depression. Brubeck turned eighty-eight on December 6. Paul Conley of Capital Public Radio in ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars Receive Two Grammy Nominations
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Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars Receive Two Grammy Nominations For “Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival" MJF Veterans Terence Blanchard And James Moody Nominated For Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Grammys Grammy Nominations Are Historic First For Monterey Jazz Festival Records MJF Commissioned Work, Appearing Nightly At The Black Orchid By Carla Bley Also Nominated For Grammy December 18, 2008; Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce that NEA Jazz Master and longtime MJF veteran, saxophonist ...
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Sag Announces and the Real Race Can Now Begin
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Michael Ricci
With this morning's announcement of the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, the “real" race for Oscar can now begin in earnest. Critics awards are nice and we are getting a steady diet of them every day, but it's the guild awards that tend to be a real barometer of the temperature of the race. This is where peers vote for peers and much of the membership tends to overlap with the academy's. The SAG Awards nominations are a ...
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