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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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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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