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EMI Jazz & Classics Artists Earn 14 Nominations In The 48th Annual Grammy Awards
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EMI Jazz & Classics Artists Earn 14 Nominations In The 48th Annual Grammy Awards
EMI Jazz & Classics, the label group comprising Blue Note, Angel, EMI Classics & Virgin Classics, earned 14 nominations in the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards for releases by artists including Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Anoushka Shankar, Martha Argerich, Maxim Vengerov, Rolando Villazn and Natalie Dessay.
The nominations were announced this morning in New York City, and the awards ceremony will take place Wednesday, February 8, 2006, ...
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Frank Hewitt's Jazz CD up for 48th Annual Grammy Awards
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Frank Hewitt, has his Jazz CD entitled All That Jazz and Blues up for the 48th annual GRAMMY AWARDS. The album released on JC Records features the late, great Frank Hewitt on piano, and is released in Hewitt's memory. The album also features Frank's Jazz protg and friend James Cannings on guitar. James also produced this great album.
Voting for the Grammy Awards is cast by voting members only of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc., (NARAS) ...
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James Blood Ulmer's Birthright Wins Blues Album of the Year in DownBeat 2005 Readers' Poll
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New York, NY -- Earlier this year, the legendary American music iconoclast, James Blood Ulmer, released his first ever solo recording, Birthright. The album, which features Ulmer alone on vocals and guitar, quickly drew critical acclaim, garnering praise from the likes of national publications such as DownBeat, Guitar Player, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Living Blues, No Depression and Rolling Stone, while newspapers including the Chicago Sun Times, Minneapolis City Pages, Seattle Post Intelligencer and The Washington Post declared it one of ...
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Marcia Migt to be Recognized by NARAS
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SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER TO HONOR MS. MIGT'S 10th YEAR
On November 30, 2005 during the General Membership Meeting and Holiday Celebration the San Francisco Chapter of the Recording Academy will honor Marica Migt's commitment to music and the Recording Academy. A 'Maestra' of many elements, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia Migt's most recent performances include with the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame Allstars, Globestar Recordings' Alex Puentes of the Alex Cuba Band, the 2005 San Jose Jazz Festival with ...
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Latin Grammy for Best Tango Album Pablo Ziegler's Bajo Cero
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Zoho Music is pleased to announce that last night, November 3, 2005, Pablo Ziegler's Bajo Cero was awarded a Latin Grammy Award for Best Tango Album at the 6th annual awards presentation! Pablo Ziegler Bajo Cero ZMR 200504 www.zohomusic.com Learn more about this Latin Grammy Award winning artist: http://www.pabloziegler.com/ Pablo Ziegler Appearances November 18 Walton Arts Center; Starr Theater, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA 7.00 PM and 9.30 PM Pablo Ziegler Trio, Ziegler(Piano), Claudio Ragazzi (Guitar) ...
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Kimmo Pohjonen Nominated for BBC Radio 3 Planet Award
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We at Thirsty Ear are pleased to announce this honorary acknowledgement for KTU's (also featuring Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto from King Crimson) Kimmo Pohjonen!
At the WOMEX world music expo in Gateshead/Newcastle, UK, 26-30.10, Kimmo Pohjonen was nominated for the BBC Radio 3 Planet Award. The category is Culture Crossing and the other nominees are: Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle (USA/India), Yasmin Levy (Israel) and Nitin Sawhney (India /UK). This is Pohjonen's second nomination for the BBC award, the ...
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Columbia College Chicago Establishes The William Russo Endowed Scholarship for Excellence in Music
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The William Russo Endowed Scholarship for Excellence in Music to be Announced The Music Department of Columbia College Chicago will announce a new scholarship in honor of renowned composer/conductor William Russo (1928 – 2003) – the Music Department’s founder and chairperson of almost 40 years – as part of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble's Saturday, October 8 performance, “An Evening with Cedar Walton and Corky Siegel.” The concert will include a tribute to Russo featuring a film retrospective of his career. ...
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European Jazz Prize & Hans Koller Prize 2005
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Hans Koller Prize 2005 / European Jazz Prize 2005: Bojan Z (Bosnia), piano ( EUR 14.500.- sponsored by the City of Vienna & BA-CA)
It is fitting that pianist Bojan Zulfikarpasic, a Paris resident but born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, is this year’s winner of the European Jazz Prize. His playing exemplifies both the strength of the European jazz scene and its wonderful diversity. As a performer, he is never less than absorbing and ...
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