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I/O Jazz Awards

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
May 15, 2010

The nominees for the I/O Jazz Awards have been posted for voting on the Lucid website. Make sure and go online and vote. The I/O Jazz Awards will be held Monday, May 31 at Benaroya Halls S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium.

Outstanding Vocalist: Alisha Roney, Greta Matassa, Emily McIntosh, Flora McGill, Bridgid Roney

Outstanding Instrumentalist: Eric Verlinde, Evan Flory-Barnes, Alexey Nikolaev, Randy Halberstadt, Scott Morning

Rising Star (16-25): Jon Sheckler, Andy Clausen, Brendan ODonnel

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JJA Nominates Steve Wilson as 2009's Best Soprano Saxophone Player

Source: Seth Cohen PR
May 15, 2010

Wilson Nominated by Jazz Journalists Association as 'Best Soprano Saxophone Player'

Steve Wilson's recent headlining stand at the legendary Village Vanguard in New York City was documented by NPR and featured in a riveting 'Live at the Village Vanguard'

Wilson previewed the appearance with a terrific interview about the state of jazz on WBGO's 'The Checkout' with Josh Jackson. While at the Vanguard, Wilson and his band Wilsonian's Grain were filmed for inclusion in an upcoming MSNBC-TV segment of “Your ...

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Dennis Owsley Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Kwmu

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 12, 2010

St. Louis jazz DJ, historian, photographer and author Dennis Owsley (pictured), who hosts the Jazz Unlimited program at 9:00 p.m. Sundays on KWMU (90.7 FM), last week received the 2010 Millard S. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award from the station.The award was created in 2006 “to honor individuals who, like Millard, serve public radio in St. Louis with unwavering passion and long-term dedication."Owsley sent along a copy of his remarks from Thursday night's ceremony, and here's what ...

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Emmy Keeps Main Title Theme Music Award

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2010

A plan -- floated earlier this year by the executive committee of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' music branch -- to replace the award with one for original documentary scores, has been rejected by the branch membership. The vote was 85-36 in favor of keeping the award, which honors the best theme music for a new series. Music branch governor Mark Watters had argued that the main title has become “a lost craft in our business" and that ...

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Tommy Castro Collects Four Blues Music Awards

Source: All About Jazz
May 10, 2010

Singer-guitarist Tommy Castro scooped up four Blues Music Awards at the non-profit Blues Foundation's annual ceremony, held in Memphis on Thursday. During the Cook Convention Center fete, journeyman Castro received the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award, and also took home honors for band of the year, best contemporary blues male artist and best contemporary blues album (for “Hard Believer," on Chicago indie Alligator Records). Singer-guitarist Joe Louis Walker's “Between a Rock and the Blues," issued by Canada's Stony ...

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Roxy Perry Inducted into Blues Hall of Fame

Source: Just Roots PR
May 10, 2010

AWARD WINNING ARTIST ROXY PERRY BRINGS NEW HONORS TO WESTCHESTER AND NEW YORK STATE

ROXY PERRY, award winning singer, songwriter, harmonica player, recording artist, and producer, known as ”NEW YORK BLUES QUEEN” for decades, has added to her list of credits with her recent induction into the BLUES HALL OF FAME as AMBASSADOR TO NEW YORK and GREAT BLUES MUSICIAN OF NEW YORK.

Inclusion in the Blues Hall of Fame is considered to be one of the highest honors a ...

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Tomorrow's Warriors Win Yamaha Jazz Experience

Source: Michael Ricci
May 5, 2010

On Saturday May 1 2010, The Tomorrow's Warriors Biggish Band won first prize in the 11 and under 19 age group category of the Yamaha Jazz Experience's 'Jazz Ensemble Improvisation Competition', which took place at the Playhouse Theatre, Cheltenham, during this year's Barclays Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Under the direction of Tomorrow's Warriors Artistic Director, Gary Crosby OBE, the Tomorrow's Warriors Biggish Band line-up of Zuri Jarrett-Boswell - piano, Will Burcher - double bass, Ruben Fox - tenor saxophone, Rosie Turton ...

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JJA Jazz Awards: June 14 Gala Tickets Now on Sale

Source: Michael Ricci
May 6, 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 introduced ...

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