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2014 JazzWeek Awards presented at JazzWeek Summit

Source: Michael Ricci
August 11, 2014

SAN JOSE, California – Jazz radio stations, jazz radio programmers, record labels and contributors to the jazz radio community were recognized at the 2014 JazzWeek Awards, presented at the Blackbird Tavern in San Jose. The awards reception was sponsored by North Coast Brewing Company, Fort Bragg, California, brewers of Brother Thelonious Belgian-style Abbey Ale.

Michael Carlson of MC Promotion was awarded the 2014 Duke Dubois Humanitarian Award, presented each year to an individual whose dedication to jazz and jazz radio ...

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Shunzo Ohno, Trumpeter Wins Grand Prize: International Songwriting Competition

Source: Sura Spiegel
August 5, 2014

First time in the history of the International Songwriting Competitions Jazz Artist wins Grand Prize Shunzo Ohno Is Awarded Overall Grand Prize With The Song “Musashi” ISC’s highest distinction, the overall Grand Prize, is awarded to trumpeter Shunzo Ohno for his song “Musashi,” entered in the Jazz category. This is the first time in the history of ISC that the Grand Prize has been awarded to a an artist from Japan. It is also the first time that the prize ...

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Alligator Record's Bruce Iglaur Wins Digital Music Innovation Award

Source: HypeBot
July 25, 2014

Airplay Direct has named industry veteran Bruce Iglaur, President & Founder of Alligator Records, as the recipient of the first Iconic Innovators award. The award was created to recognize innovators in the realm of digital music in the industry. The award will be given yearly to the member of Airplay Direct who best embraces the vision and opportunities that digital innovation in the Music Industry has and continues to create, the company said. As a part of the award, AirPlay Direct ...

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Stanley Clarke Invited Into Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Source: Diane Hadley Public Relations
July 1, 2014

We’re pleased to announce film composer Stanley Clarke’s invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. This year only 271 artists and executives were extended invitations to the elite 6,417 membership. All have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. “This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the ...

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NEA Jazz Masters: Charles Lloyd

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 30, 2014

This is a good year for jazz saxophonists from Memphis, Tennessee. Like his fellow Memphian George Coleman, who is three years older, Charles Lloyd (born 1938) has been named a 2015 Jazz Master of the National Endowment for the Arts. Along with Coleman, pianist-composer-arranger Carla Bley and Chicago club owner and entrepreneur Joe Segal, Lloyd will receive his NEA Jazz Master award next April in a Jazz At Lincoln Center ceremony in New York. Among Memphis musicians who mentored and ...

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NEA Jazz Masters: Joe Segal

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 30, 2014

Joe Segal, who last week was named a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, has been at the heart of jazz in Chicago since the early bebop era. He began presenting jazz events following World War Two when he was attending Roosevelt College on the GI Bill. It was not unusual for name musicians, including Lester Young, Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins, to join local players in Segal’s afternoon sessions. When the Roosevelt sessions ended in 1957, Segal ...

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NEA Jazz Masters 2015 Class

Source: Michael Ricci
June 29, 2014

Initiated in 1982, the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the nation’s highest honor given to those who have devoted their lives and careers to jazz, an art form uniquely rooted in American history and culture. Described by The New York Times as a “rare public accolade for jazz”, the recipients represent a wide variety of musical distinction, from singers and percussionists, to vibraphonists and saxophonists—all of whom have shaped and advanced the jazz art form through their lifelong commitment. With ...

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NEA Jazz Masters: George Coleman

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 29, 2014

Tenor saxophonist George Coleman is one of four 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters named thisweek. He, Carla Bley, Charles Lloyd and Chicago’s Jazz Showcase impresario Joe Segal will be inducted in a ceremony next spring in New York. In our previous post, Rifftides presented Ms. Bley in performance. As a 17-year-old alto saxophonist in 1952, Coleman launched his professional career impressively in his native Memphis, Tennessee, landing a gig with bluesman B.B. King. While with King, he ...

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