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Herbie Hancock To Receive Award At BET Honors

Source: Muse Media
January 11, 2011

HERBIE HANCOCK TO BE HONORED BY BET JANUARY 15TH AS PART OF ANNUAL BET HONORS CEREMONY Recently nominated for three upcoming 2011 Grammy Awards for his critically-acclaimed CD, “The Imagine Project," Hancock is also set to perform at the celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's inauguration January 20th at The Kennedy Center Los Angeles, California. Legendary musician and genre-defying artist Herbie Hancock will be a recipient at this year's BET HONORS celebration January 15th in Washington, ...

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Grammys to Honor the Man: Roy Haynes

Source: RJ on Jazz by R.J. DeLuke
January 9, 2011

The annual Grammy Awards are a funny thing. Sometimes one wonders from what fishbowl they pulled out names to nominate for the awards. Sometimes real deserving folks win. But so much great music never any notice. And yet everyone would like one on their mantel, it only for the cachet. But dammit if they didn't do something right this year, selecting the masterful drummer Roy Haynes as a recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. Formal acknowledgment comes at the 53rd ...

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John Gilbreath Lands at #17 on CityArts' List of Seattle Culturemakers

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
January 7, 2011

Earshot's John Gilbreath lands at #17 of CityArts magazine's list of Seattle's top culture makers. He is in between The Seattle Channel's Nancy Guppy and Pacific Northwest Ballett's Artistic Director Peter Boal ... fine company indeed. from CityArts:

17 John Gilbreath EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, EARSHOT JAZZ John Gilbreath says his to-do list is a block and a half long, and it's easy to see why. Earshot produces nearly a hundred performances each year, ...

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Memphis Music Foundation and Stax Museum Congratulate al Bell on Receiving 2011 Trustees Award

Source: conqueroo
January 6, 2011

Award acknowledges Al Bell's lifetime of musical excellence and cultural enrichment MEMPHIS, Tenn.—The Memphis Music Foundation and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, located at the original site of Stax Records, proudly congratulate Al Bell on receiving the highest honor the music industry offers, the Trustees Award, given by the Board of Trustees of the Recording Academy. Bell now joins the pantheon of musical icons who have received the prestigious honor, including the Beatles, Walt Disney, George and Ira ...

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Best in '10 - The Music

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
January 3, 2011

Chim Chim Cheree—Eric Alexander Quartet (Venus): One of today's most interesting tenor saxophonists, Eric Alexander, helming one of jazz's best groups, with the legendary Harold Mabern on piano, the undersung Joe Farnesworth on drums and, in this case, John Webber on bass, takes on the repertoire of the great John Coltrane and comes up with a winning and tremendously unpredictable tribute. While Alexander has obviously been influenced by Coltrane, among others, and has in the past covered any number of ...

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One Year in Jazz: Nine of the Best and One of the Worst.

Source: The Domino Theory by Jeff Winbush
January 1, 2011

1. Chris Standring/Blue Bolero: Playing jazz in America would serve as a great cover for someone in the witness protection program. A musician can labor at jazz for years and put together a nice body of work, but the music industry, the media, and the public may barely notice in their search for the next teenage pop star.

Chris Standring has never made an album quite like Blue Bolero. Standring could have stayed in a smooth jazz comfort zone of ...

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Mindblowers (Vol. 12)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 1, 2011

As we swing out the year today, it's time for another installment  of Mindblowers. For those new to JazzWax, at the end of each quarter I provide a roundup of my favorite quotes from interviews I conducted with legends over the past three months. For the other 11 volumes in this quarterly series dating back to 2007, scroll down the right-hand side to “Mindblowers," where you'll find links to each one. For my full interviews, scroll down to “JazzWax Interviews." ...

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2010 | Year End Lists

Source: Ars Nova Workshop
December 31, 2010

To music journalists, dedicated fans, and a swarm of other zealots, the end of each year entails making a “best albums of the year” list. To mark the occasion, Ars Nova Workshop asked several musicians playing in Philadelphia for our 2010-2011 season to contribute their lists and the responses appear below. Among their selections were numerous records by artists and ensembles also performing this season, including those by Ideal Bread, Gerald Cleaver, Tom Rainey, Marc Ribot, Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson ...

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