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JEN and Berklee join to present John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award
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AAJ Staff
The Jazz Education Network and Berklee College of Music will collaborate to present the John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year award. The award is named after legendary jazz educator John LaPorta who served as a distinguished professor at Berklee for more than three decades prior to his death in 2004 and played a pivotal role in the earliest stage of formalized jazz education. The award will recognize an outstanding high school or elementary school educator with a focus on ...
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Mercury Prize Shortlist Announced
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HypeBot
The nominees for the Mercury Prize 2010 Albums of the Year have been announced. Biffy Clyro 'Only Revolutions' Villagers 'Becoming A Jackal' Corinne Bailey Rae 'The Sea' Mumford & Sons 'Sigh No More' Paul Weller 'Wake Up The Nation' Wild Beasts 'Two Dancers' Kit Downes Trio 'Golden' Laura Marling 'I Speak Because I Can' Dizzee Rascal 'Tongue N' Cheek' Foals 'Total Life Forever' I Am Kloot 'Sky ...
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Neil Peart Barely Paradiddles Past Travis Barker Winning Fourth Straight "Drummer Of The Year" - To Be Inducted Into Drummies Hall Of Fame
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif., This year's Drummies have been very interesting for a variety of reasons. As previously reported, recording voting occurred as 6500 drummers casted 100,000 votes in the 40 categories that make up The Drummies. Neil Peart, for a fourth straight time, has won “Drummer Of The Year." It was a very tight race with Peart winning over Travis Barker by just six votes. It's reasonable to assume that Peart's lucky number is 6 since he can play in ...
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Jazz Unites The House As Yamaha Honor Britain's 2010 Jazz Scholars
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Bruce Lindsay
The hugely successful, high-powered and influential partnership between Yamaha in association with Jazzwise, PPL and the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group celebrated the fourth year of its Jazz Scholarship programme at the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group's annual 'Summer Jazz' event in association with Jazzwise and PPL in the House of Commons on Wednesday 14th July.
Six winners representing the cream of young British jazz talent put in an exceptional performance, after being nominated for special consideration by ...
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New Date Announced for ASMAC Golden Score Awards
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Chris M. Slawecki
NEW DATE ANNOUNCED: COMPOSER MARC SHAIMAN AND ARRANGER SAMMY NESTICO TO RECEIVE GOLDEN SCORE AWARDS; ROB REINER TO HOST JULY 22nd TRIBUTE
Los Angeles, CA: On Thursday evening, July 22, 2010, The American Society of Music Arrangers & Composers will host the Annual Golden Score Awards, hosted by actor/producer Rob Reiner, at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City. The 2010 Golden Score Award will be presented to the multi-talented award winning film, television and theatrical composer, lyricist and arranger ...
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Janet Lawson, Grammy-Nominated Jazz Vocalist, Returns to Latvia to Perform and Teach at Music Camp
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Toni Ballard PR
NEW YORK, NY--New York City-based jazz vocalist JANET LAWSON is off to Latvia once again to sing and teach at the IX INTERNATIONAL LATVIAN YOUNG MUSICIANS MASTER CLASSES. Held every two years, previously in Ogre, the music camp takes place in Sigulda, Latvia July 15 to 24, 2010. Dace Aperans is the Artistic Director of the camp, which offers young musicians, who range in age from 17 to 22, the opportunity to study with world-renowned musicians and educators in the ...
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The Grammys Amend Best New Artist Eligibility Rules, Now Accept Online Submissions
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We All Make Music
Change is in the air for the Grammys.
Actually, the award show itself will probably be pretty much the same, but there have been some changes to the rules for submissions and nominations.
In an effort to not be left out at a time when almost every other aspect of the music industry is evolving, the Recording Academy will be changing the nomination process for its iconic awards show.
According to Music industry Report, the Grammys will now be accepting ...
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Gaga Power, the Rules for the Grammys Change
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HypeBot
Due to a technicality, Lady Gaga was ineligible for the nomination of best new artist at this year's Grammys -even though she was the most popular artist of 2009. Since she was a nominee the previous year, it meant that she couldn't be one in the next. Determined to prevent another oversight like this from happening in the future, the Academy adjusted the rules, making it so that previous Grammy nominees are eligible. What's significant about this situation isn't that the rules got changed, as much ...
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