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Palmetto Label Continues Its Winning Track Record as Jazz Times Critics Pick Its Artists as Best of 2002
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National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2003 American Jazz Masters Fellowship Recipients
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All About Jazz
San Francisco, CA...The National Endowment for the Arts today announced that saxophonist Jimmy Heath, percussionist Elvin Jones, and vocalist Abbey Lincoln will receive the 2003 American Jazz Masters Fellowships. The awards recognize significant contributions to jazz, artistic excellence and impact on the music field. Every year, a panel of experts selects up to three artists from a pool of nominations submitted by the national jazz community and the public. Each artist receives a one-time fellowship of $20,000.
A.B. Spellman, a ...
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Blue Note Artists Chucho Valdes, Bebo Valdes & Gonzalo Rubalcaba Win Latin Grammy Awards
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All About Jazz
Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival Name Richmond's Carlin Muccular Seventh Jimmy Lyons Scholar
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All About Jazz
Presentation to be made by Albert “Tootie" Heath, 2 pm Sunday
Monterey and Boston, Sept. 20, 2002-- Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival announced today that Carlin Muccular of Richmond, CA is the seventh recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee, a major jazz education prize. The scholarship is named in honor of the festival's late founder, James L. (Jimmy) Lyons, who began the festival more than 40 years ago with jazz education at its core. ...
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European Jazz Prize for Tomasz Stańko
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Polish jazz composer and trumpeter Tomasz Stańko was awarded a first European Prize, a newly founded prize for outstanding European jazz musicians. In the final round of voting among 21 jazz critics from 21 different European countries, Stańko won ten votes, against nine votes for Dutch piano player Misha Mengelberg.
Pawel Brodowski, Editor-in-Chief of the Polish jazz journal Jazz Forum, said that this award represents great success for both Stańko personally and for the Polish jazz community at large. Brodowski ...
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1st Annual Masters of American Music Film Festival Swings Into New York
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All About Jazz
The 1st Annual Masters of American Music Film Festival premieres at the Anthology Film Archives (2nd Street & 2nd Avenue) on August 24th and 25th.
Conceived by Peter M. Hargrove, an ardent music fan and CEO of the film &
television distribution company Hargrove Entertainment, the film festival has been designed to highlight the people and personalities whose performances put American musical creative genius on the international map with rare public screenings of definitive profiles, many authorized by each performers ...
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