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The Year in Jazz: Twin Cities 2014
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
I could join others and come up with a top ten recordings list, or a top ten gig list— although it seems that, save Pamela Espeland, I would probably be alone in the media in naming a best of anything in jazz for 2014. Instead, I am going to try to recap what I think are the year's jazz highlights more generally. Despite starting on the very down note of the closing of the Artists Quarter, on balance, 2014 was ...
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Rounding up the "Best Jazz of 2014" lists
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's that time of year again, as jazz journalists, DJs, critics, and bloggers are publishing their annual “Best Of" lists. And once again, for the eighth consecutive year, St. Louis Jazz Notes eschews the compilation of such a list, instead offering a meta-list with links to all of the other “Best Jazz of 2014" lists we can locate. As in the past, the meta-list is alphabetized by writers' names. When a list was collaborative or presented as a staff-written project, ...
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George Harrison, Buddy Guy, 5 More Honored With Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards
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HypeBot
The Recording Academy has named its Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners for 2015. George Harrison, The Bee Gees, Buddy Guy, the Louvin Brothers, Wayne Shorter, Flaco Jiménez and Pierre Boulez will all be honored at next year's ceremony during Grammy week. Grammy Trustee & Technical Winners Also Named Producer Richard Perry, the husband and wife songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and jazz promoter George Wein will all receive Grammy Trustee Awards. Ray Kurzweil will receive the Technical Grammy Award. ...
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George Wein Honored With The Recording Academy Trustees Award
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Wein Joins 2015 Recipients Richard Perry and Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil NEW YORK, NY – GEORGE WEIN, world-renowned founder/producer of the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and numerous other music events, will receive The Recording Academy Trustees Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions in areas other than performance. The award will be presented at a special invitation-only ceremony on Saturday, February 7, 2015 and acknowledged during the 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards, which will ...
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27 Recordings Named To 2015 Grammy Hall Of Fame
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HypeBot
The 2015 Grammy Hall of Fame inductees range from gospel music to ABBA, Hank Williams, the Sex Pistols and many in between. This year's 27 inductees brings the grand total of Hall of Fame titles to 987. A special member committee who nominate inductees from a group of recordings from at least 25 years ago with particular qualitative or historical significance. The Hall of Fame titles are on display at the Grammy Museaum in downtown Los Angeles. Recording Academy prexy and CEO Neil Portnow ...
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57th Grammy Nominations Recognize New England Conservatory Musicians
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Strong showing for NEC musicians in jazz category A Far Cry chamber orchestra nominated for Kickstarter-funded project New England Conservatory students, alumni, and faculty are included in nominations for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, announced on Friday. Winners will be announced at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 8, 2015. Three of the five contenders in the “Best Jazz Instrumental Album" category come from the NEC faculty. Pianist Fred Hersch '77, an alumnus who has been ...
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Indie Artists Receive +50% of All Grammy Nominations for 5th Consecutive Year
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A recent release by American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) recognized and congratulated the noteworthy talent coming from the independent music sector. For five years in a row, independent music labels and artists have received over 50% of all GRAMMY nominations - earning 219 nominations out of 404 non-producer category nominations (excluding the not-yet-announced Album of the Year nominations) for 2014. Independents earned nominations in key categories, including but not limited to Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop ...
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Grammy Nominees 2015 - Jazz
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All About Jazz
31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo The Eye Of The Hurricane Kenny Barron, soloist Track from: Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio (Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio) Label: Whaling City Sound Fingerprints Chick Corea, soloist Track from: Trilogy (Chick Corea Trio) Label: Concord Jazz You & The Night & The Music Fred Hersch, soloist Track from: Floating (Fred Hersch Trio) Label: Palmetto Records Recorda ...
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