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Healdsburg Jazz Festival Receives NEA Jazz Masters Live Grant
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Michael Ricci
$10,000 grant will help support an NEA Jazz Masters concert with Sheila Jordan and Roy Haynes Healdsburg, CA.—The Healdsburg Jazz Festival has received an NEA Jazz Masters Live grant of $10,000 to help support a concert on June 10th, 2012 honoring jazz masters Sheila Jordan and Roy Haynes. The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is one of 12 not-for-profit organizations to receive a grant to support performance and educational activities featuring NEA Jazz Masters, recipients of the nation's highest honor in jazz. ...
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George Porter Jr. to be Honored with Offbeat Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in Music
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Something Else!
George Porter Jr., original bassist with the Meters, will be this year's recipient of OffBeat magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in Music, during ceremonies to be held January 26 at Generations Hall in New Orleans. An in-demand sideman, Porter has performed and recorded with Dr. John, Paul McCartney, Robbie Robertson, Robert Palmer, Patti Labelle, Jimmy Buffett, David Byrne, Johnny Adams, Harry Connick Jr., Earl King, Warren Haynes, Tori Amos and Snooks Eaglin, among many others. With Art Neville, he co-founded the ...
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Jazz Arts Group Awarded Funds for Continuing Innovation by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
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Michael Ricci
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is honored to be the recipient of a $120,000 Continuing Innovation Stage II grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). In November 2009, JAG received a $200,000 grant from the DDCF Fund for National Projects. That funding was used to launch a first-of-its-kind national study to gain deeper understanding of current and potential jazz audiences, their level of involvement with jazz, preferences for artists and venues, motivations to attend performances, and what ...
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Gregg Allman Named International Artist of Year; See Complete List of Maple Blues Awards Winners
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Something Else!
Gregg Allman was named international artist of the year, while New Brunswick bluesman Matt Andersen was named the year's top acoustic act, male vocalist and entertainer at Canada's 15th Maple Blues Awards ceremonies overnight. Ottawa's MonkeyJunk earned awards for best electric act, best recording and best drummer. Saskatoon native Suzie Vinnick won the best songwriter and best female vocalist awards. Nominees for the annual Maple Blues Awards are chosen by a panel of more than 50 experts; winners are then ...
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Noah Preminger's "Before The Rain" Among Jazz Critics' Top CDs of 2011
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Scott Foster
The latest CD by the Noah Preminger Quartet, “Before The Rain" (Palmetto Records), has appeared on at least 11 best-jazz-CD lists for 2011 and has won a coveted spot on the Rhapsody Jazz Critics' Poll. The CD, which features the 25-year-old Preminger, a tenor saxophonist/composer, along with pianist Frank Kimbrough, bassist John Hébert and drummer Matt Wilson, is Preminger's 2nd release as a leader, following Dry Bridge Road (Nowt Records), a debut that received similar accolades. Preminger is one of ...
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The Critics Speak
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
I keep swearing to swear off critics polls. I fail when Francis Davis persuades me to take part in his. For years, Francis ran the Village Voice jazz critics poll. This year he moved the operation to the Rhapsody website and recruited more than 120 jazz critics, writers and broadcasters. Who knew there were so many jazz critics? Well, the definition is stretched, but the results are interesting.
The Winner
Here is some of what Davis wrote in his essay ...
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Award-Winning Jazz Vocalist Chris Williams Receives Nomination for 2012 OC Music Awards Best Jazz
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Chris Williams
Anaheim, CA—Award-winning local jazz vocalist, Chris Williams has been nominated in the category of Best Jazz for the Orange County Music Awards, to be held March 3 at The Grove in Anaheim. Canadian-born jazz vocalist Chris Williams has impressed audiences with his intense passion, vocal proficiency and musical maturity. He has built a loyal following, as his highly entertaining performances are met with great enthusiasm by people of all ages. Chris has been performing in Southern California for more than ...
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For a Night, Jazz Shines in America
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RJ on Jazz by R.J. DeLuke
Sonny Rollins receives Kennedy Center Honor on CBS television It actually happened a few weeks ago, the night Theodore Walter Rollins was among people from the arts receiving the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., in front of the President and First Lady and hundreds of people associated with the arts. But the event aired tonight (Dec. 27) on CBS television ... a national network. Once upon a time that might not be a big deal for jazz, but in ...
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