Award / Grant News

Want to Enter the Grammys? Here's the Deal...

Source: Digital Music News
July 6, 2011

Say what you will about the Grammy selection and voting process, not to mention the recent round of category chops. This is a highly flawed and subjective process, but this is also an award that most musicians would die to clutch—even if they say otherwise. And now, the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards submissions process is ramping up. Of course, this comes with a few catches, especially if yourgenre category was recently eliminated (ie, Latin, Hawaiian, Blues, and other genres). That's ...

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Jazz Masters 2012 - The 30th and Final Class (Updated)

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
June 26, 2011

Call it overdue honors for Vonski and more The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters Award—the nation's highest honor in jazz. The five recipients are drummer-keyboardist Jack DeJohnette, saxophonist Von Freeman, bassist and composer Charlie Haden, singer Sheila Jordan and trumpeter Jimmy Owens (pictured). As a longtime educator, the latter will receive the 2012 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy. Each will receive a one-time award of $25,000 ...

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Jazzed Media's Stan Kenton Documentary Honored with Videographer Award

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
June 25, 2011

The Videographer Awards has honored Jazzed Media with a 2011 Videographer Award of Excellence for the documentary film Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm- Portrait of a Jazz Legend. The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated producer and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of Jazzed Media. Jazzed Media produces jazz CDs and documentary jazz films. In recognition of the upcoming 100th birthday celebration of Stan Kenton in 2011 this almost 2 hour documentary by award winning jazz ...

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The New NEA Jazz Masters

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 24, 2011

The National Endowment for the Arts today named the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters. As announced in the NEA's news release, the winners are:

Jack DeJohnette Drummer, Keyboardist, Composer

Von Freeman Saxophonist

Charlie Haden Bassist, Composer, Educator

Sheila Jordan Vocalist, Educator

Jimmy Owens Educator, Trumpeter, Flugelhorn Player, Composer, Arranger

Each recipient will receive a one-time award of $25,000 and be publicly honored next January at the annual ...

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Riverfront Times Announces 2011 Music Awards Winners

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 23, 2011

The Riverfront Times announced the winners of the paper's 2011 Music Awards at a ceremony held Tuesday night at the downtown rock club, the Firebird. Guitarist Dave Black (pictured) was named “Best Jazz Artist" in the RFT's online reader poll, while the combo platter of singer Roland Johnson and the Voodoo Blues Band snagged this year's “Best Blues Artist" award. The Funky Butt Brass Band also were among this year's winners, taking home the trophy for “Best Jam/Funk Band." You ...

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Music for Lifelong Achievement and Horns to Havana Instrument Drive Garners Seventeen Instruments for Schools in Havana, Cuba

Source: Jennifer Kramer
June 22, 2011

ST. LOUIS, MO—Music for Lifelong Achievement (MFLA) has wrapped up a successful instrument drive for Horns to Havana, a non-profit organization based out of The Center For Cuban Studies in New York City. The drive, which took place from February through May, garnered seventeen instruments including a trumpet, saxophone, keyboard, three guitars, three trombones, four flutes and four clarinets. Music for Lifelong Achievement was the first organization in the country to partner with Horns to Havana on this important project, ...

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Stanley Clarke Set To Be Honored At Montreal Jazz Festival With Esteemed Miles Davis Award June 26

Source: Diane Hadley
June 17, 2011

Stanley Clarke will be the 18th recipient of the Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival June 26, 8:00 p.m., Salle Wilfrid-Peiletier venue. The award will be presented before his festival performance with Return To Forever. The Miles Davis Award was created in 1994 to honor a great international jazz musician for the entire body of his or her work and for that musician's influence in regenerating the jazz idiom. “Awards such as this make me remember and appreciate ...

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JazzBoston Organizes Local Awards Party for Wally's Cafe on Saturday June 11

Source: Chris Rich
June 9, 2011

Elynor Walcott and sons Paul, Frank, and Lloyd Poindexter, who own and run the storied Wally's Café, in Boston, have been named 2011 “Jazz Heroes" by the Jazz Journalists Association. Established in 1947 by Elynor Walcott's father, Joseph L. ("Wally") Walcott, an immigrant from Barbados, it was the first African American owned nightclub in New England * and a Boston stop for jazz icons such as Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and Roxbury native Roy Haynes * Wally's moved across the ...

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