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Duane Andrews Wins 2007 USA Songwriting Competition Jazz Category
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All About Jazz
(St. John's, NL, Canada) - Jazz/folk guitarist Duane Andrews has won first prize in the jazz category of the 2007 USA Songwriting Competition. The award-winning song, Isaac's Blues is an original instrumental composition from Duane Andrews' highly lauded sophomore CD “Crocus". The annual USA Songwriting Competition is positioned as one of the world's leading international songwriting events. Winners are selected by a “blue ribbon" committee of music industry judges including record label publishers, producers, A&R representatives from Universal Music, Warner, ...
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Blue Note Records Earns 10 Nominations in the 50th Annual Grammy Awards
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All About Jazz
Blue Note Records earned ten nominations in the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards for releases by artists including Terence Blanchard, Bill Charlap, Charles Tolliver, and Jeff Lorber. The nominations were announced this morning in Los Angeles, and the awards ceremony will take place Sunday, February 10, 2008, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and will be broadcast on CBS. Composer/Trumpeter Terence Blanchard received two nominations this year in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category for A Tale of God's ...
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MAMA Records and Summit Records Are Pleased to Announce Two Grammy Finalists...
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All About Jazz
Category 49: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Bob Florence Limited Edition Eternal Licks and Grooves (MAMA 1030)
Featuring 'powerhouses' Peter Erskine, Carl Saunders and Scott Whitfield - This recording is drivingly intense and offers the listener what they have come to expect from Bob Florence - huge sounds and amazing arrangements.
Tracks include: “Eternal Licks & Grooves" commissioned by ASCAP and IAJE honoring Count Basie and “Appearing In Cleveland" commissioned by the Los Angeles Jazz Institute ...
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Two for the Show Media & Jazzheads Records Are Pleased to Announce Bobby Sanabria's Big Band 2008 Grammy Nomination
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Two for the Show Media
Best Latin Jazz Album: Big Band Urban Folktales (Jazzheads Records) “Sanabria is not just a drummer but a historian, indeed one of the few authorities in the history of the crossover between jazz and Latin forms. It's all there, and you learn something as you listen." --Ben Ratliff The New York Times “Red Hot, blistering, and brilliant, Sanabria breathes Latin fire." --All About Jazz In 2001, Bobby's mainstream Grammy nominated CD, Live & In Clave!!! took ...
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Herbie Hancock Suprised by Album of the Year Grammy Nomination
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LRI Publicity
By Gail Mitchell, L.A.
Many artists interviewed after this morning's 2008 Grammy Awards announcement in Hollywood noted a diversity among the list of nominees. A clear example of this may have been the album of the year nomination for jazz veteran Herbie Hancock's River: “The Joni Letter.
Probably the most surprised was Hancock himself. “Album of the year for jazz record?" he told billboard.biz, “I was shocked. But Jazz is out there. It's alive and manifests itself in a lot ...
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Jazzed Media's Bill Holman Band "Hommage" CD Receives a Grammy Nomination
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All About Jazz
The Bill Holman Band “Hommage" CD on Jazzed Media has received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Recording in the 50th annual Grammy Awards. Bill Holman is recognized as one of the premier jazz writers and arrangers and The Bill Holman Band has been an active part of the big band jazz scene since the early 1970's. Bill Holman has previously received a total of 14 Grammy nominations in his long and distinguished music career. This is the ...
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Ayler Records Announces Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut as First Living Artist Chosen for Box Set
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All About Jazz
November 2007, Sweden -- Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut (New York City) is chosen as the first living artist to have a box set released by the Scandinavian record label Ayler Records.
Shurdut's Box Set documents the artist's journey into Environmental Tuning with the players who have been a part of his revolutionary vision.
This very unique box will include collaborations with Joe McPhee, Blaise Siwula, Brian Osborne, Daniel Carter, Luther Thomas, Sonny Simmons, Frode Gjerstad, Lukas Ligeti, Tom Chess, Marc Edwards, ...
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Manuel Engel/ME 3 Album Finalist For 7th Annual Independent Music Awards
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All About Jazz
