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The Walter C. Allen Family Donates Extensive Reference & Research Library to the Fletcher Henderson Museum
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Fletcher Henderson Museum
The Allen Family of New Jersey has donated their father, Walter C. Allen's, complete library of materials to the Fletcher Henderson Museum. Walter C. Allen, the foremost authority on the career of Fletcher Henderson, was a jazz historian at the Smithsonian Institute. He was, also, one of the founding members of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Mr. Allen's monograph Hendersonia: The Music of Fletcher Henderson and His Musicians is now the authoritative work on Henderson's career. The ...
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American Society of Musicians to Host 15th Annual Awards Show at Celebrity Centre in Hollywood on June 7
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All About Jazz
West Hollywood - On Thursday, June 7, 2007 at the world famous Celebrity Centre in Hollywood, the American Society of Young Musicians (ASYM) will give again hold its highly anticipated kudos-fest giving musical honors to talented artists in the music community for having inspired young musicians with their fresh sound and for paving the way for the next generation of up-and-coming artist to follow. As a major scholarship organization for talented artists with over 1200 voting members internationally and various ...
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Flutist Enrique (Kalani) Trinidad Wins Presidential Scholarship
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All About Jazz
Hawaiian/Puerto Rican flutist Enrique (Kalani) Trinidad, won the Presidential Scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston on May 29, 2007. The announcement was made by scholarship director Damien Bracken.
Kalani was selected for this honor out of a pool of more than 3,700 applicants this year starting in the fall class, involving an extensive international talent search via the World Scholarship Tour and both verbal and written recommendations and letters of support from music education and industry professionals. ...
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ASCAP to Add Six Music Greats to Jazz Wall of Fame at Jazz at Lincoln Center
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All About Jazz
NEW GROUP OF INDUCTEES INCLUDES THREE JAZZ GIANTS OF THE PAST AND LIVING LEGENDS LOUIE BELLSON, DAVE FRISHBERG, AND TERRY GIBBS
WYCLIFFE GORDON TO BE RECOGNIZED WITH THE ASCAP FOUNDATION VANGUARD AWARD
Event Will Also Celebrate Recipients of the 2007 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards, Sponsored by The Gibson Foundation
New York, NY - ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman has announced that ASCAP will add six music greats to the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame on Friday, June ...
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Estonian Jazz Awards Go to Jaak Sooaar and Erki Parnoja
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All About Jazz
First Estonian jazz awards were handed out during International Jazzkaar Festival which is the largest jazz festival in Estonia and the whole Baltics. Elion Jazz Award was given to guitarist Jaak Sooaar, Young Jazz Talent Award went to guitarist Erki Parnoja.
In this April - or Month of Jazz - Estonian biggest telecommunications and IT company Elion, Estonian Jazz Union and Jazzkaar announced the first Estonian jazz awards. Laureates were announced and awards were given on April 27th at Russian ...
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Soul Blues Party at the Blues Music Awards, May 10 in Memphis!
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All About Jazz
The Jackie Payne Steve Edmonson Band will be performing Thursday, May 10th at The Blues Foundation's 2007 Blues Music Awards held at Memphis' Cook Convention Center, 225 North Main Street. In addition to performing with Jackie, the band will be backing Frankie Lee, Sugar Pie DeSanto and Johnny Rawls. You'll also be treated to performances by soul blues great Bobby Rush. Folks, you'll only see it at the Blues Music Awards!
The event brings together blues performers, industry representatives and ...
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Circuit Productions Awards Music Commissions with a Grant from New York State Music Fund
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Three composers receive grants to create and perform music for performances in Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World music Free concerts to take place in NYC and NYS beginning Spring- Summer 2007. Circuit Productions receives a total of $30K from the NYS Music Fund. Brooklyn, New York, May/June, 2007 Circuit Productions, Inc., the recipient of a NYS Music Fund grant ("The Fund"), announced today that it has awarded three composers grants totaling $6000 for RHYTHM JOURNEYS: MASTERS OF JAZZ ...
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Former Boston Globe Music Critic Richard Dyer to Give Commencement Address at New England Conservatory, May 20
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All About Jazz
NEC to Award Honorary Degrees to Dyer, Regina Resnik, Bruno Monsaingeon, Halim El-Dabh '53 M.M., and Wayne Shorter New England Conservatory will honor a music critic, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano, a documentary filmmaker who specializes in musical subjects, a Grammy Award-winning saxophonist/composer, and a pathbreaking Egyptian-American composer, percussionist, educator, and ethnomusicologist at its 136th Commencement Exercises, May 20 at 3 p.m. in NEC's Jordan Hall. Recipients of the honorary doctorates are Richard Dyer, Regina Resnik, Bruno Monsaingeon, Halim El-Dabh '53 M.M., ...
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