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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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Harry Belafonte To Receive Honorary Doctorate Of Music Degree At Berklee Tribute Concert
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music president Roger H. Brown will present an honorary doctor of music degree to iconic musician, songwriter, and activist Harry Belafonte at a Berklee tribute concert, in recognition of Belafonte's inspiring musical and humanitarian achievements. Past recipients of Berklee's honorary doctorate include Duke Ellington (the first, in 1971), Dizzy Gillespie, Steven Tyler, Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, Juan Luis Guerra, David Bowie, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Bonnie Raitt, George Clinton, and Carole King. The Life and Music of ...
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SFJAZZ Collective Wins Outstanding Jazz Album at 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards
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Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
The SFJAZZ Collective’s Album, Wonder: The Songs of Stevie Wonder, won Outstanding Jazz Album at 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, CA on Friday, February 21, 2014. The 45th NAACP Image Awards is the nation’s premier multi-cultural awards show and celebrates the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors. The SFJAZZ Collective is the all-star award-winning jazz ensemble comprised of ...
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New England Conservatory Jazz Studies Student Andrew Schiller And Alumni Jeff Schneider And Christopher Zuar
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Receive 2014 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards New England Conservatory Jazz Studies student Andrew Schiller and alumni Jeff Schneider and Christopher Zuar have been selected to receive 2014 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. Schiller is a jazz bassist and composer working toward his Master of Music degree at NEC. Schneider is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who earned his Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Performance from NEC in 2009; this is his third Young Jazz Composers Award. Zuar, ...
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Stem Artist Lisa Young Commissioned For The Australian Voices
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Zzzing Agency
Following the success of Other Plans (Lisa Young's 2009 commission work for The Australian Voices), The Australian Voices Choir has commissioned a new work from Young for 2014. Young is working on a choral arrangement (soprano, alto, tenor and bass) of 'Misra Chappu', incorporating the melody of this work from newly released “The Eternal Pulse" album under STEM. 'Misra Chappu' is in a 7/4 meter, and incorporates the south Indian vocal percussion art-form of konnakol. Aside from the beautiful jazz ...
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