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Sonny's Still on a Roll
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
The high honors, perhaps long overdue, keep on rolling in for saxophonist Sonny Rollins. His historic 80th birthday concert in New York's Town Hall three nights after his September 7 birthday was one of the top jazz events of 2010 Then you add in Edward MacDowell Medal, a lifetime achievement award from the Montreal International Jazz Festival, being the subject of an artful and insightful book (John Abbott and Blumenthal's Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins) and induction into ...
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Sonny Rollins to Receive National Medal of Arts at the White House, March 2
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins is one of ten honorees who will receive the 2010 National Medal of Arts for outstanding achievements and support of the arts, it was announced by the White House today. The presentation will be made tomorrow, March 2, at 1:45 pm, by President Barack Obama in an East Room ceremony at the White House. Mrs. Michelle Obama will also be in attendance. “I'm very happy that jazz, the greatest American music, is being recognized through this honor, ...
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Berklee Jazz Students React to Esperanza Spalding's Grammy Award
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
East St. Louis HS Jazz Band Named One of 15 Finalists in Essentially Ellington Competition
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The jazz band from East St. Louis High School (pictured) is one of 15 ensembles from across the United States to be accepted as finalists for Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2011 Essentially Ellington jazz band. (Link goes to .pdf file.) The ESL HS band is directed by Delano Redmond, and was selected from among 110 bands that entered this year's competition. The 15 finalists will go to New York City May 12 through May 14 to compete and participate in ...
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Congratulations to Jazz Drummer Roy Haynes on Winning Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Congratulations to Roy Haynes, who grew up in Roxbury and learned his music there, for receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Boston Herald jazz writer Bob Young noted, “Roxbury-born Roy Haynes has kept some pretty good company in his nearly seven decades in the music business. Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Pat Metheny have all shared the stage with the man known as the father of modern jazz drumming." With ...
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The Ten Best Moments at the 53rd Annual Grammys
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Jazz (Jazzers Jazzing) by Carl L. Hager
Before this year's Grammy awards are incorrectly written off as a series of acrimonious disappointments and bizarre twists, it's important to quickly note several very good things that happened. Not that it's easy to overlook the Grammy for Record of the Year going to a country band's tune that could well become subject to a plagiarism suit over the changes borrowed almost note-for-note from the Alan Parsons Project 1982 “Eye in the Sky," (George Harrison was successfully sued for less) ...
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Owl Studios' Mike Clark + Pharez Whitted Nab Best Jazz Album NOM at IMA's!
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Seth Cohen PR
Owl Studios' Mike Clark and Pharez Whitted Each Nominated for 'Best Jazz Album' in the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards Indianapolis-Based Owl Studios Honored with Two of the Five Nominees in Top Jazz Category Clark's Album Praised as “Among the best new jazz albums to be released this year"; Whitted Delivers a “Combination of intensity and technique, spank and sparkle" Indianapolis-based OWL STUDIOS is proud to announce they've been honored with two of the five nominations in the top jazz ...
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Canadian Jazz Flutist's CD Release, Mercy, Nominated for the Independent Music Awards
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Bill McBirnie - Extreme Flute
Canadian jazz flutist Bill McBirnie's recent release, Mercy, has been nominated in the USA for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards (IMAs) in the best Jazz Album category. Although based in the USA, the IMAs are international in scope with submissions from 70 countries across five continents. Both the IMA nominees and winners are determined on the basis of artistic merit and this year's judges in the Jazz category will include McCoy Tyner, Arturo Sandoval and Lee Ritenour. The IMA ...
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