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Fontana Artists Earn 30 Grammy Award Nominations
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All About Jazz
Fontana, the independent distribution arm of Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, has received 30 Grammy Award nominations, the most in company history. The announcement was made today by Ron Spaulding, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Fontana. The nominations were spread out among artists from Fontana's many partner record labels and ranged from Best Contemporary Jazz Album - Lifecyle by Yellowjackets featuring Mike Stern (Heads Up International) to Best Gospel Performance - “Shall We Gather At ...
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Grammy Nominations Get Legit: Radiohead, MMJ, Daft Punk, Bela
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JamBase
Grammys Get Real with Nominations
Radiohead After years of throwing hyper-saturated mainstream poop at the masses, it appears the Grammys have come around to some real dope sounds. In addition to fairly entertaining rockers Coldplay (who will probably win and received seven nominations in total), other artists up for Album of the Year include Radiohead (who nabbed six nominations in total - Grammys be wakin' up yo!), Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Lil' Wayne and Ne-Yo.
But where things really ...
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Brazilian Girls Nominated for a Grammy Award! | Brazilian Girls | News
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All About Jazz
Grammy Nominations 2009: Jazz
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All About Jazz
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) Bob Belden, ...Continue Reading
John McLaughlin's "Floating Point" Receives Grammy Nomination
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All About Jazz
(Los Angeles, CA) - The 51st Annual Grammy Awards Organization has announced that guitarist John McLaughlin's Floating Point (2008 Abstract Logix Records) has been nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Winners will be announced on February 8, 2009. Floating Point was recorded in India for Abstract Logix Records and MediaStarz. McLaughlin used many of that country's finest young musicians on the recording. He likes to call them the “young lions of India." Contrary to ...
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Grammy Awards Blow Their Own Horn with Nomination Concert
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Michael Ricci
The Grammy Museum will open downtown this weekend, but on Wednesday night the venerable awards brand was trying to prove it's no relic in this “American Idol" era. The nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday not at some early-morning news conference -- as they have been in the past -- but sprinkled in a one-hour prime-time special featuring performances by Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and other stars singing classic songs at the Nokia Theatre. It was ...
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Grammy Reactions: Album, New Artist, Snubs and Surprises
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Michael Ricci
The Times' pop music critic Ann Powers and Pop & Hiss' co-editor Todd Martens discuss the nominations for the 51st annual Grammy Awards. They were filmed outside the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles immediately following the announcements.
Reaction: Soul and R&B dominate the best new artist category, with two exceptions: country-rock newcomers Lady Antebellum and Disney-trained stars the Jonas Brothers. Give the Grammys credit: In a category that has long nominated artists well into their career, this ...
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Ahmad Jamal's "It's Magic" is Record of the Year and Best Jazz of the Year
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All About Jazz
Jazz Legend Ahmad Jamal's Latest CD It's Magic is NPR's Best Jazz of the Year
It's Magic is Jazzman Magazine's Record of the Year
Ahmad Jamal on Tour in Continual Support of the Album
New York, NY Preeminent jazz piano master Ahmad Jamal's latest CD, It's Magic was chosen today as one of the Best Jazz of the Year on NPR's Best CDs of 2008 series. It's Magic also won Record of the Year in the renowned annual Jazzman Magazine ...
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