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JJA Jazz Awards: Do You Have Your June 14 Gala Ticket?

Source: Michael Ricci
May 28, 2010

Tickets for the 14th annual JJA Jazz Awards gala, to be held June 14 at City Winery in New York City, are now available. Don't miss it: buy your tickets online today.

Awards will be presented in more than 40 categories of excellence in jazz performance and documentation ; professional JJA members are now voting to choose the winners from among nominees named last month. New “A Team" members-- “advocates, activists, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz"-- will also be ...

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JJA Jazz Awards: Phoenix Area Satellite Party June 14

Source: Michael Ricci
May 28, 2010

Are you a friend of jazz and live in the Phoenix area? Then you can follow the JJA Jazz Awards live and celebrate with other local jazz fans at a “satellite party"to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 14 simultaneously with the Jazz Awards ceremony and reception in New York City.

The casual party starts at 12 noon local time and will be hosted by Michael, Jill and Mikayla Gilbreath in their Scottsdale home. Admission is free, and anyone ...

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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2010 Philadelphia Music Project Grant Recipients

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2010 Philadelphia Music Project Grant Recipients

Eighteen local music organizations receive over $1.1 million in funding

Philadelphia, PA--The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced $1,141,900 in grants from the Philadelphia Music Project to 18 local music organizations. This years grantees represent a broad range of musical genres, including classical, blues, jazz, opera, and world music.

Among the projects funded: The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will present a series of concerts featuring ...

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Britain's 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards - Winners Announced

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2010

The 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards--organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG) and sponsored by PPL, the organisation that licenses the use of recorded music in the UK--were announced in the Terrace Bar of the House of Commons on the evening of Wednesday May 19th. On one of the warmest evenings of the year so far a large crowd of politicians, musicians, writers and others turned out to support the awards, hosted by broadcaster Paul Gambaccini.

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JJA Jazz Awards Go Bicoastal: June 14 Satellite Party in Berkeley

Source: Michael Ricci
May 23, 2010

Are you a jazz fan in the San Francisco Bay Area? Then you can toast trumpeter-bandleader-educator Khalil Shaheen-- newly named “Jazz Hero, Bay Area" by the JJA-- as you watch the JJA Jazz Awards live and celebrate with local jazz journalists, musicians and other listeners at a “satellite party" at the Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance in downtown Berkeley, California on Monday, June 14 from 12:30 to 3:30 PDT. It's free, it's open to the public, and it will ...

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McCartney to Receive Gershwin Prize

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2010

The third Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song will be presented to Sir Paul McCartney at a special concert in the White House on June 2, it was announced by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on Monday.

Sir Paul follows in the footsteps of past Gershwin honorees Paul Simon (2007) and Stevie Wonder (2009).

Performers scheduled to perform McCartney tunes include Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, Faith Hill, Jonas Brothers, Jack White, Emmylou Harris, Herbie Hancock and Corinne ...

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Composers Portman, Blanchard Top BMI Awards

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2010

Film composers Rachel Portman and Terence Blanchard took top honors at Wednesday night's Film and TV Music Awards ceremony held by Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) in Beverly Hills.

Portman, the first woman to win an original-score Oscar ("Emma," 1996), became the first female to receive BMI's Richard Kirk Award in its 25-year history. The honor annually goes to a top film or TV composer for career achievement. “I hope I'll be the first of many," she said. “Writing music is ...

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Jazz Icons Lambasts JJA, Calls DVD Nominee a Bootleg

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2010

“You should be ashamed of yourselves," producers of the Jazz Icons DVD series scolded the Jazz Journalists Association for naming Count Basie & His Orchestra: Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968 a Jazz Video of the Year finalist in the 2010 JJA Jazz Awards.

In an open letter sent to a selection of jazz journalists but not the organization itself, “unidentified producers of the Jazz Icons Series" contended, “We have spoken with Count Basie's estate and the rights holders ...

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