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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces Grant to Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Percussionist Dafnis Prieto Commissioned to Write New Composition to Debut at 2012 Newport Jazz Festival NEWPORT, RI, November 16, 2011—The Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. has been awarded a 29-month Arts Program grant in the amount of $50, 000 from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) to support presentations by DDCF grantees at the Newport Jazz Festival® during 2011-2013. Percussionist Dafnis Prieto has been commissioned to compose a new piece for his sextet to debut at the 2012 Festival, which is set ...
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MCG Jazz, Paquito D’Rivera and "Panamericana Suite" Receives Two Latin Grammy Awards
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Michael Ricci
Pittsburgh, PA: MCG Jazz, the independent record label housed at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild on the North Side, has again produced a CD that has won two Latin GRAMMY® Awards. The awards were announced today during the pre-telecast awards show at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, NV. Congratulations go out to Paquito D'Rivera on his two Latin GRAMMY® Awards. This time it is for Panamericana Suite (MCGJ 1026), in the Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Contemporary Classical Composition ...
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2011 Thelonious Monk Piano Competition
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Phyllis Kauflin
By Gene Seymour, EYE ON THE ARTS, NY WASHINGTON, D.C.—For its 25th anniversary edition, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz's international competition returned to its roots by featuring its namesake's instrument. And though the event has yielded terrific finds in category winners from singing (Teri Thornton) to saxophones (Joshua Redman), the Monk piano contests have discovered such now-established mainstays as Ted Rosenthal, Jacky Terrasson and Eric Lewis. In what's turning out to be a banner year for jazz piano recordings, ...
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La Maison Française Honored with DCJF Jazz Advocacy Award
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Chris M. Slawecki
The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) honored La Maison Française and The Embassy of France as the recipient of the 2011 John Conyers Jr. Jazz Advocacy Award for its devotion and commitment to jazz. The Jazz Advocacy Award is presented each year to an individual or organization that has actively supported jazz and the DCJF. The award, named in honor of Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), a champion of jazz, who introduced a bill in Congress (HR-57) in 1987 that declared ...
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NEA Jazz Masters Program Still Hanging In...
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
NEA Jazz Masters Program Finds New Support for Federal Funding The U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Appropriations recently insisted on the continuation of the 29-year-old Jazz Masters fellowship, which was recommended to be cut earlier in the year by the National Endowment of the Arts. The 2012 appropriations bill submitted by the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies (which includes NEA appropriations) was approved by the Committee only under the stipulation that the Jazz Masters program continue. ...
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Michael E. Anderson wins 2012 Sinquefield Composition Prize
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Dean Minderman
Columbia, MO: The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative are pleased to announce that Michael E. Anderson is the winner of the 2012 Sinquefield Composition Prize. Anderson, a Mizzou senior, submitted his piece “At the Mercy of the Forest" to the competition and was selected for the prize by a panel of independent judges. The adjudicators for the 2012 competition were Warren Gooch, professor of music theory and composition at Truman State University in ...
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2011 Americana Music Association Award Winners
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HypeBot
Americana music is hard to define, and no where want that more obvious than at last night's 2011 Americana Music Association Awards where winners ranged from Jerry Douglas to Gregg Allman. A list of 2011 Americana Music Award Winners: ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Band Of Joy, Robert Plant ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Buddy Miller INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR: Buddy Miller NEW / EMERGING ARTIST: Mumford & Sons SONG OF THE YEAR: “Harlem River Blues" by Justin Townes Earle DUO / ...
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Chris Greco - Nominee - Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2011
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Chris Greco
Official Nomination Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2011 November 17, 2011, Hollywood, California Chris Greco Jazz “Merope" About Chris Greco Multi-instrumentalist Greco free lanced, recorded, explored small, medium, and large group formats and was a significant contributor to the jazz culture of Los Angeles during the 1980's and the 1990's. His jazz recordings from this period can be found on the independent label GWSFourwinds Records. The record logo reads “Music for the 21st Century reflecting directions in modern ...
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