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New York's Reverend Zen Goes Global Winning Song of the Year at Spain's Effigy Awards
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Just Roots PR
Reverend Zen wins Song of the Year from Meer Music's Effigy Awards in Spain.
Katonah, NY -- The New York group Reverend Zen continues to receive accolades as “The Boston Shakedown" was named Blues/Rock Song of the Year at the Effigy Awards ceremony held January 25 in Spain. In addition to their Song of the Year honors, Reverend Zen was one of the top five nominees in the Effigy Awards Best Artist in Style - Rock/Blues and was named a ...
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Li'l' Ray Neal Blues Band Brings Home Blues Award for Baton Rouge Blues Society
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Just Roots PR
The Baton Rouge Blues Society is proud to announce that the 'Lil' Ray Neal Blues Band Came home from Memphis third place winner in the international competition. There were 160 acts competing in the blues challenge that brings thousands to historic Beale Street in Memphis.
Each year affiliates of The Blues Foundation send their areas best Blues acts to Memphis, Tennessee to compete in the International Blues Challenge. January 31-February 2, 2008 marked the 24th year that the best of ...
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Jazz Grammy Winners 2008
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All About Jazz
Category 45
Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Party Hats Will Bernard [Palmetto Records] Downright Upright Brian Bromberg [Artistry Music] Re-imagination Eldar [Masterworks Jazz] River: The Joni Letters Herbie Hancock [Verve] He Had A Hat ...Continue Reading
A Victory for Jazz, or Just Grammy Being Grammy?
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Michael Ricci
When something newsworthy or popular or positive happens to a jazz musician -- a big award, say -- many in the jazz world feel astonished for about four seconds, then quickly act very smug. You know: We've been sitting here patiently, full of our aesthetic virtue, so used to being ignored, and the world has finally come around to our point of view. Are we happy about it? More to the point, what took you so long? Are we entitled ...
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Grammy 2008 Big Winners: Winehouse, Kanye West and Herbie Hancock
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All About Jazz
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) - The 50 year-old Grammy Awards showed their age by giving jazz artist Herbie Hancock the Album of the Year awards. And they showed their spunk with naming troubled singer Amy Winehouse the biggest overall winner of the night with five Grammys including Record and Song of the Year and Best New Artist. The biggest surprise of the night? Herbie Hancock taking home the Album of the Year Award for “River: The Joni Letters." The Grammy ...
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Reverend Zen Named Artist of the Year at 17th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards
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Just Roots PR
Katonah, NY, January 25, 2008 -- The New York based rock/R&B/jazz band Reverend Zen is moving into 2008 with Artist of the Year honors from the 17th annual Los Angeles Music Awards. Recipients of four Best Song Nominations in the Adult Contemporary Artist and Blues Categories of the awards, genre stretching Reverend Zen was named 2007 Blues Artist of the Year at the LAMA ceremony held November 29, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Music ...
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