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Farmers Market and Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus Win Norwegian Grammy Awards
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All About Jazz
Saturday evening at Vossa Jazz was an even greater cause for celebration than the performances to that point and still to come. Two of the festival's artists received news that they had been awarded Norwegian Grammy Awards: Multi-instrumentalist Stian Carstensen (accordion, guitar, pedal steel guitar, Kaval, banjo) and his longstanding group Farmers Market won in the Open Category for the group's 2012 release, Slav to the Rhythm (Division Records). Carstensen was at Vossa Jazz unveiling a new commission that, in ...
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Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz Hall of Fame Opens Voting to Fans; St. Louis Native Clark Terry Eligible for Election This Year
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz at Lincoln Center's Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame is asking jazz fans to help select its next set of inductees through online voting, and legendary trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry (pictured) is one of this year's nominees. Started in 2004, the Hall currently has 34 members, including former St. Louisan Miles Davis. If elected, Terry, who's now 92, would be only the third musician (along with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman) to be honored with induction ...
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Girls Groove In 30 Countries During First Two Weeks Of "Hit Like A Girl"
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif., — Hit Like A Girl: The Contest For Female Drummers today reported that video entries have been posted by female drummers from more than 30 different countries. The contest is produced by DRUM! Magazine in conjunction with TRX Cymbals and Tom Tom Magazine. Girls and women of all ages are invited to submit videos of their drumming both to win valuable prizes and to support the global development of women drummers. “Some of the most interesting entries ...
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Jazz Pianist Tigran Wins $35,000 Prize for Contemporary Music
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Chris M. Slawecki
The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to announce Yo-Yo Ma as the winner of the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Contemporary Music. While Mr. Ma is widely acknowledged as a master cellist in the field of classical music, the Vilcek Prize is the first to recognize and honor his contributions to contemporary music. The annual Vilcek Prize in the Arts, which comes with a $100,000 cash award, recognizes immigrants who have made significant contributions to the American arts. Mr. Ma, born in ...
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Jazz Bassist Stanley Clarke Praises 55th Annual Grammy Awards For Including Jazz In Its Televised Broadcast
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Diane Hadley
Jazz greats Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Kenny Garrett performed on the televised CBS broadcast of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday night, February 10, in a tribute to jazz legend Dave Brubeck. They performed one of Brubeck’s best remembered pieces, “Take Five,” ending with a few bars of his enduring hit, “Blue Rondo a la Turk.” The show was also supported on radio worldwide via Dial Global and covered only at Grammy.com and CBS.com going out to viewers and ...
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Grammy Winners 2013: Jazz List
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Michael Ricci
Best Improvised Jazz Solo “Hot House" Gary Burton & Chick Corea, soloists Track from: Hot House Concord Jazz Best Jazz Vocal Album Radio Music Society Esperanza Spalding Heads Up International Best Jazz Instrumental Album Unity Band Pat Metheny Unity Band Nonesuch Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Dear Diz (Every Day I Think Of You) Arturo Sandoval ...
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CBS Email to Grammy Peformers: "Avoid Exposing Bare Fleshy Under Curves of the Buttocks"
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HypeBot
(UPDATED) Every year CBS' Standard And Practice group issues a warning to Grammy performers and presenters dubbed affectionately, the 'Wardrobe Advisory', and almost every year some performer intentionally or via a “malfunction" falls well beyond (or below) CBS' stated decency standards. This year, CBS and The Grammy's decided to get specific with warnings that include: “Thong type costumes are problematic....avoid exposing bare fleshy under curves of the buttocks and buttock crack. Bare sides or under curvature of the breasts is ...
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Legacy names Nina Simone "Artist of the Month"
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Chris M. Slawecki
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, commemorates the life and music of Nina Simone on the occasion of the singer's 80th birthday and celebrates the iconic High Priestess of Soul as the label's Artist of the Month for February 2013. Nina Simone, who would've turned 80 on February 21, was a strong and vocal civil rights advocate who carried the message of universal rights and personal empowerment, freedom, equality and dignity throughout her career. Whether it was ...
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