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New England Conservatory Jazz Alumna Matana Roberts Receives Doris Duke Impact Award
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Program will give awards to 100 artists over the next five years New England Conservatory jazz alumna Matana Roberts '03 M.M. is one of 20 individuals in the first class of Doris Duke Impact Awards, presented by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Roberts will receive an unrestricted cash grant of as much as $80,000. The Impact Awards were announced April 22, alongside the third class of Doris Duke Artist Awards since the program's 2012 launch. NEC alumnus Don Byron '84 ...
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Mwalim Daphunkee Professor Wins "Best Male Jazz" In The 2014 New England Urban Music Awards
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Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor
Third win in even year cycle for 'NDN Jazz' artist. Competition particularly stiff this year. BOSTON, MA - The Hibernian Hall auditorium erupted with applause as Mwalim *7) - DaPhunkee Professor (Morgan James Peters) took to the stage to accept his “Best Male Jazz" award at the 9th Annual Urban Music Awards, followed by a performance of his international hit song, “Just Is.." for an enthusiastic audience of over 200 people. A previous winner, in 2010 and 2012 in the ...
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Jazz Heroes 2014
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The Jazz Journalists Association has named 24 Jazz Heroes, recognizing them as “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz.” Among them is Jim Wilke, whose Sunday Jazz Northwest program we at Rifftides sometimes tell you about. It airs today at 2:00 pm PDT on KPLU-FM, 88.5 in Seattle and streams here on the internet. Jim features artists who will be playing at this week’s Ballard Jazz Festival, among them Sonny Fortune, Mimi Fox and Jay Thomas. For details about ...
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Mwalim “Best Male Jazz” Nominee In The New England Urban Music Awards! Cast Your Vote!
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Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor
The 8th Annual New England Urban Music Awards (NEUMA) are upon us, releasing this past Tuesday the list of official nominees. Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor is a nominee for the “Best Male Jazz Artist” category, for his latest album “Awakened By A Noon Day Sun” (LMMGM/ Spirit Wind Records). Cast your vote for Mwalim and other nominees by visiting www.mwalim.com and clicking the link “Vote for Mwalim in the 2014 NEUMA” The New England Urban Music Awards was created in 2006 ...
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SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Win Next Generation Festival Award Celebrate With SFJAZZ Center Concert April 26
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Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
The SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, under the direction of Paul Contos, won the Conglomerate Big Band Division Award for the second time in a row at the 2014 Next Generation Jazz Festival in Monterey, CA. In addition to winning the Conglomerate Big Band Division, four of the All-Stars earned Outstanding Soloist Awards: Matt Wong (piano), Benjamin Ring (drums), Kanoa Mendenhall and Logan Kane (bass). Benjamin Ring also won a Berklee College of Music 5-week Summer Program Scholarship. The All-Stars Orchestra ...
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Chicago Jazz Musician Wins Religion Award
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Erin Fusco
Chicago bassist, guitarist and composer Karl E. H. Seigfried has been awarded Best Religion Weblog 2014 for his website, The Norse Mythology Blog. This is the third straight year his blog has won the top spot in the international Weblog Awards. Karl is the only religion writer to have a triple win, and his site is now the first religion blog to enter the Hall of Fame in the world's longest-running blog awards. In addition to his twenty years as ...
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Terence Blanchard's Champion Nominated For International Opera Award
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Muse Media
Terence Blanchard and Michael Cristofer’s CHAMPION, which received its world premiere at Opera Theatre in June 2013, is one of five finalists for “World Premiere” of the year in the 2014 International Opera Awards. Funds currently being raised via IndieGoGo for recording/distribution of project for CD Los Angeles, CA: Opera Theatre’s 2013 world premiere Champion, which was co-commissioned with Jazz St. Louis, continues to garner international recognition with the February 13 announcement from the 2014 International Opera Awards that the ...
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Jazz Trumpeter Jeff Lofton Wins "Best Horn Player" Austin Chronicle's 2013-14 Austin Music Awards
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Jeff Lofton
Austin, TX - Jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton will accept his award for “Best Horn Player" at the Austin Music Awards tonight at the Austin Convention Center in the heart of SXSW. Presented by the Austin Chronicle, the Austin Music Awards are voted on by the public and the awards show airs locally on public access TV channel 10 and streams online at ChannelAustin.org. Lofton was also placed second in the “Best Jazz Band" category. Lofton recently released a remake of ...
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