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Jazz Award Goes to Director of Jazz-Institut Darmstadt
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All About Jazz
Wolfram Knauer awarded with the “Hessischer Jazz Preis 2002" for his achievements in establishing the Jazz-Institut Darmstadt as an internationally acclaimed information and documentation center on jazz.
Wolfram Knauer (44), musicologist and director of the Jazz-Institut Darmstadt, has been named as the recipient of the prestigious “Hessischer Jazzpreis 2002" (Hesse Jazz Award 2002) for his achievements in establishing an international jazz information and documentation center. In addition to serving music lovers and fans, the Darmstadt institute has become an efficient ...
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Kahil El'zabar Receives "Percussionist Of The Year" Award From Jazz Journalist Association
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All About Jazz
At a benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America on Wednesday June 19, 2002, Kahil El'Zabar was presented with the “Percussionist of the Year" award by the Jazz Journalist Association. The results were based on votes cast by the 400 member J.J.A. international membership.
For more information on the JJA Awards, please go to the websites: www.jazzhouse.org or www.JazzJournalistsAwards.com.
Kahil El'Zabar's new album, Love Outside Of Dreams, (Delmark 541) featuring saxophonist David Murray and trompbonist Fred Hopkins, will be released ...
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Alyn Shipton Wins 'Jazz Writer of the Year' Award
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All About Jazz
Alyn Shipton has won the award for 'Jazz Writer of the Year' for his New History of Jazz in the British Hamlet Jazz Awards. The prize was presented at the Pizza on the Park ceremony by Humphrey Lyttelton, who described the book as 'the definitive history of jazz'.
Alyn's book has also been nominated the in the 'Best Book About Jazz' category in the prestigious Jazz Journalists Association awards, which take place today in New York.
The list of plaudits ...
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Jazz legend Vernon Alley to receive SFSU Presidential Medal
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All About Jazz
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7, 2002 -- Vernon Alley, the legendary jazz bassist who has played a major role in San Francisco's jazz scene since the 1940s, will receive the San Francisco State University Presidential Medal this year.
Alley, an undergraduate music studies student in 1940, will accept the medal at a special ceremony for SFSU alumni on Friday, May 24 -- the evening before the University's 101st Commencement exercises.
“Vernon Alley is a living legend whose great musical gifts have ...
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Fourth Annual Marian Mcpartland/Eastman Jazz Series Spotlights Rising Star Of Jazz, Jason Moran
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All About Jazz
McPartland honored through new exhibit in Sibley Music Library
ROCHESTER, NY ‹ For the fourth time in as many years, legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland and the Eastman School of Music have teamed up to shine the spotlight on an exceptional jazz pianist who deserves wider recognition.
Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Moran whose CD Black Stars was named the best jazz recording of 2001 by The New York Times makes his Rochester debut as the featured artist in the fourth annual “Marian ...
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