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BT Digital Awards Best for Music Discovery, Promotion, Music Blog, App, Site and More
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HypeBot
At last night's BT Digital Music Awards in London, one of the few awards that honors musicians as well as the digital media and technology sectors, Songkick, iTunes, YouTube, BBC Introducing, Gorillaz and Muse were among the big winners. 2010 BT Digital Music Award Winners:
Best Innovation or Gadget BandCentral BuzzDeck Pledge Music Songkick SoundCloud SoundOut Winner: Songkick
Best Artist Promotion Christina Aguilera Bionic album collaborator map Giggs Freestyle competition Gorillaz Escape to Plastic Beach games Gorillaz Escape to Plastic ...
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Skipp Pearson Becomes an Endorsing Artist for Conn-Selmer Paris
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Skipp Pearson
Columbia, SC—it is with great pleasure the Skipp Pearson Jazz Foundation announces that Skipp Pearson, the official ambassador of jazz music for the state of South Carolina, has joined the distinguished international endorsing artist roster of Conn-Selmer Inc/Selmer Paris Saxophones. The Conn-Selmer endorsing artist roster includes many of the finest professional players of brass and woodwind instruments in the world. In addition to Ambassador Pearson's current duties; the preservation of live jazz music presentations for the benefit of generations, the ...
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Philippine Jazz Icon Boy Katindig, youngest to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from PARI/23rd Awit Awards
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Boy Katindig
Jazz Musician/Yamaha Artiste/ KoolKat Productions Pres. Boy Katindig, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award (Dangal ng Musikang Pilipino Award) from the 23rd Awit Awards. The youngest recipient of the award, Mr. Katindig was recognized for his exemplary and outstanding achievement as one of the pioneering artists in the propagation of original Filipino music and as an award winning songwriter and producer by the Philippine Record Industry (PARI). “It came quite early cause I'm not done yet" quoted the jazz artist ...
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Jazz Pianist and Composer Jason Moran Winner of 2010 Macarthur Fellowship
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
(Boston)—Jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran has been named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, it was announced today. The unrestricted fellowship encourages “people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual and professional inclinations," according to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Moran is one of 23 recipients of this year's so-called genius award, and recieves a stipend of $500,000. Born and raised in Texas, Moran is a newly appointed member ...
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NEC Jazz Pianist Jason Moran Awarded MacArthur "Genius" Grant
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Michael Ricci
Moran Joins NEC's Distinguished Roster of Jazz “Geniuses" Including Gunther Schuller, George Russell, Steve Lacy, Ran Blake Jazz pianist Jason Moran, who joined the New England Conservatory faculty this month, has been named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Among 23 recipients of the famous MacArthur “Genius grants," Moran, 35, has been recognized as the “Up-'n-Coming Jazz Musician" of 2003 by the Jazz Journalists Association and “the most provocative thinker in current jazz" ...
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Karkwa win the 2010 Polaris Music Prize
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rock paper scissors, inc.
Karkwa was named the winner of the fifth annual Polaris Music Prize. This award, given to signify the best Canadian album of the year, was presented tonight at the gala ceremony held at CTV's Concert Hall at the Masonic Temple in Toronto. In addition to bragging rights, Karkwa take home $20,000 for their album Les Chemins de Verre. “It's an unbelievable thing to win this prize. We have a lot of respect for this contest and we think they do ...
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Alex Hargreaves Awarded Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee School of Music
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GoMedia PR
Presentation will be made to Adventure Music's Youngest Recording Artist on the Jimmy Lyons Stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival on September 19 Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival have announced that award-winning violinist and Adventure Music recording artist Alex Hargreaves is the fourteenth recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee, a major music education prize. The full-tuition scholarship is named in honor of the festival's late founder, James L. (Jimmy) Lyons, who began the festival ...
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Five Berklee Alumni Nominated for Eleven Latin Grammy Awards
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Berklee Public Relations
BOSTON, MA, September 13, 2010—Five Berklee alumni have been nominated for 11 Latin Grammy Awards including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Tropical Album, and Best Latin Jazz Album. Winners will be announced at the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony November 11 from 8:00㬇:00 p.m. EST, broadcast live on the Univsion Network from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Juan Luis Guerra '83 leads the pack with four nominations. His ...
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