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NEA Jazz Masters: Charles Lloyd
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
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
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
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
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Michael Ricci
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
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
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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NEA Jazz Masters: Carla Bley
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced next year’s NEA Jazz Masters. They are composer, pianist,arranger and bandleader Carla Bley (pictured); saxophonists George Coleman and Charles Lloyd; and—for jazz advocacy—Joe Segal, whose Jazz Showcase in Chicago has presented the music for more than 60 years. They will receive their awards at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 20, 2015, during Jazz Appreciation Month.How better to recognize them now than to share memorable performances? Over the next few ...
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And the Winners Are...
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
The Jazz Journalists’ Association presented the media portion of its 18th annual Jazz Awards this week at the Blue Note in New York. The full list of winners is detailed at JJAJazzAwards.org. Three musicians won crossover honors. Pianist Ethan Iverson was honored for the year’s best blog for Do The Math. Vibes player Gary Burton won Best Book of the Year category for his autobiography, Learning To Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton (Berklee Press). Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, ...
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Timeline for Submitting to the Grammys [2014-2015]
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HypeBot
The first round of GRAMMY Award submissions opens in July followed by an array of Recording Academy deadlines. To cut through the confusion, here if the official timeline for submitting to the 2014-2015 Grammys. Overview: The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast (CBS) will be held on Sunday, February 8, 2015. Eligibility Period is for recordings commercially released between October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014. Members must be active in order to submit projects for GRAMMY consideration. Dates and Deadlines: July ...
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2014 JJA Jazz Awards for Journalism and Media
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All About Jazz
Winners in the following categories were announced at the JJA Jazz Awards Party on June 11, 2014 at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City. Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism W. Royal Stokes Website of the Year All About Jazz Print Periodical of the Year Jazz Times Blog of the Year Do the Math (Ethan Iverson) Book of the Year Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary ...
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