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Up Score Oscar Music Award
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All About Jazz
82nd Annual Academy Awards
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
“Up" Michael Giacchino “Avatar" James Horner “Fantastic Mr. Fox" Alexandre Desplat “The Hurt Locker" Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders “Sherlock Holmes" Hans Zimmer
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from “Crazy Heart," music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett “Almost There" from “The Princess and the Frog," music and lyrics ...
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Stevie Wonder breathless over French award
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All About Jazz
PARIS - It's taken nearly 30 years, but Stevie Wonder has finally received his medal for being named into France's prestigious National Order of Arts and Letters. The Motown great was in the French capital to perform and be honored at France's biggest musical awards show Saturday. Wonder said: “All this in one day, it's almost too much for me. I'm breathless." Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand riffed off several of the pop star's hits at a Paris ceremony. “I just ...
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Czech Jazz Society Poll Won by Jaromir Honzak
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Michael Ricci
Czech Jazz Society has announced the results of its Best Album of the Year poll. The jury, compromised of over sixty musicians, jazz club owners, record company producers, publicists and managers chose CD Little Things, recorded by base player Jaromir Honzak's quintet.
The poll also saw surprising results for two debuts: base player Tomas Liska's CD Invisible World filled the second position while Infinite Quintet's Speak Slowly ended third. All three records were issued on the independent Animal Music label. ...
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Tom Silverman to Receive NARM 2010 Independent Spirit Award
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HypeBot
Music trade association NARM will honor Tom Silverman, the founder, chairman and CEO of Tommy Boy Entertainment, with its Independent Spirit Award at the Annual NARM Convention in Chicago on Monday, May 17.The NARM Independent Spirit Award was established in 2009 to recognize a music industry executive who embodies the spirit of new thinking, entrepreneurship and success in the industry. The first Award was given to Don VanCleave, the founder and former president of the Coalition of Independent ...
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Whitworth University Jazz Ensemble Named Outstanding Group at 2010 Lionel Hampton Festival
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Michael Ricci
The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble was named outstanding group in the college/university division at the 2010 Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, held Feb. 24-27 at the University of Idaho, in Moscow. This is the seventh time in the past 14 years that Whitworth's jazz band has received top honors at the annual competition. Seniors Kurt Marcum and Noah Peller were named outstanding soloists in the categories of trumpet and bass, respectively. “The music department faculty is very proud of our jazz ...
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Sonny Rollins Named 2010 Edward MacDowell Medalist, the First Jazz Composer to be so Honored
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The MacDowell Colony, the nation's leading artist residency program, will present its 51st Edward MacDowell Medal to jazz composer and tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins on Sunday, August 15. The MacDowell Medal has been awarded annually since 1960 to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to his/her field, and this year marks the first time the Colony has recognized the field of jazz. Rollins joins an impressive list of past recipients, including Leonard Bernstein, Alice Munro, I.M. Pei, Merce ...
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Bob Dylan, Clint Eastwood Get White House Awards
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All About Jazz
President Barack Obama honored actor and director Clint Eastwood and singer Bob Dylan with arts and humanities awards Thursday. The White House called Dylan “an icon of youthful rebellion and poetic sensitivity" and said Eastwood's films and performances are “essays in individuality, hard truths and the essence of what it means to be American." “Obviously, their careers have marked the landscape of American culture for decades," Obama said noting their absence from the East Room ceremony. Others who made ...
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