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Jazz Bassist Eddie Gomez Awarded First Honorary Doctorate At Berklee In Valencia, Spain

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Berklee Media Relations
Legendary jazz bassist and Grammy Award-winner Eddie Gómez was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree by Berklee College of Music in Valencia. Gomez is a native of Puerto Rico who was raised in New York City. This was the first-ever honorary doctorate granted at the college’s new international campus in Spain. The award was presented by Larry Simpson, Berklee senior vice president for academic affairs, at a celebratory concert at the Teatro Martin i Soler in the Palau de ...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Announces 2014 Nominees: Nirvana, Ronstadt, Gabriel and More

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HypeBot
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2014 nominees. Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt and Peter Gabriel lead the list that also includes The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Meters, Chic and ten more. The complete list of 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Chic Deep Purple Peter Gabriel Hall and Oates KISS LL Cool J The Meters Nirvana N.W.A. The Replacements Linda Ronstadt Cat Stevens Link Wray Yes The Zombies From ...
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Chris Greco - Nominee - Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2013

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Chris Greco
Official Nomination Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2013. Chris Greco's jazz composition Oliver" is a nominee for the 2013 Hollywood Music in Media Awards event. Oliver" is a simmering up-tempo line that features Greco's wide command and nuanced approach on the tenor saxophone. For the third consecutive year reed player Greco has received a HMMA jazz composition nomination. Oliver" can be found on the release Trane Of Thought on the Gwsfourwinds label. The HMMA event takes place November 21, 2013 ...
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Visionary pianist Vijay Iyer gets a well-earned MacArthur

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Michael Ricci
When Vijay Iyer performed at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2001, there was no mistaking the grandeur of his pianism, nor its harmonic originality. Since then, Iyer has developed into a singular voice in jazz, his solo playing by turns galvanic and introspective, his ensemble work mercurial in sound and gesture. It's not an exaggeration to say that no one in jazz sounds like Iyer, including Iyer. His music, in other words, is too chameleonic and rhythmically volatile to be ...
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Theo Croker Wins Marcus Belgrave National Jazz Trumpet Competition In Conjunction With Detroit Jazz

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Muse Media
THEO CROKER WINS MARCUS BELGRAVE NATIONAL JAZZ TRUMPET COMPETITION IN CONJUNCTION WITH DETROIT JAZZ Croker, Recently Signed to Dee Dee Bridgewater’s DDB Records Distributed by OKeh Records/SonyMasterworks, Will Also Release New CD in Spring 2014 Los Angeles, CA: Critically-acclaimed cutting-edge trumpet player Theo Croker has won the Marcus Belgrave National Jazz Trumpet Competition in conjunction with Detroit Jazz. Held in honor of Detroit Jazz legend Marcus Belgrave, the competition recognizes and provides performance opportunities to outstanding jazz trumpeters 35 years ...
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Kimmel Center seeks artists for Jazz Residency Program

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All About Jazz
Jazz Residency Request for Proposals | Download the Application Now (PDF) “We need to work to rebuild appreciation of jazz and promote innovative presentations of jazz music to build the audiences that clubs need to survive.” —Mayor Michael Nutter The Kimmel Center is proud to launch a residency program for Philadelphia Jazz Artists who are inspired to push jazz into the future with the creation of new work. Jazz came from our mashing music together and expanding into new territory; ...
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Sandoval, Gillespie and the Medal

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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Now that the White House has announced President Obama’s Medal of Freedom winners for 2013, the sniping begins over his choices. Here is my snipe. Whatever Arturo Sandoval’s merits as a musician, they are put in perspective by his biography in the White House announcement, which notes that the trumpeter and pianist was a protégé of Dizzy Gillespie. That shines a bright light on the fact that while he was alive and in the 20 years since his death, Gillespie ...
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Are You The Next Great Jazz Musician? Music Network Offers Recording Opportunity!

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All About Jazz
ARE YOU THE NEXT GREAT JAZZ MUSICIAN? CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR NEW GENERATION AWARD 2013 Music Network invites applications for the NEW GENERATION AWARD 2013, a unique professional development programme designed to assist a selected group of Ireland's brightest young musicians at the beginning of their professional career. The award this year is open to young Irish jazz groups with between two and five members. The deadline for applications is 5:00 pm on Monday 23 September. Previous jazz ensembles to ...
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