Award / Grant News

Leonard Cohen, Earth Wind & Fire to Enter Songwriters Hall of Fame

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2010

Among those up for enshrinement in the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year are Leonard Cohen, key members of Earth, Wind & Fire, and producer-composer David Foster.

The hall made the announcement of its inductees on Tuesday. Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White, Philip Bailey and Verdine White are being honored in addition to Foster and Cohen. Also up for honors are Johnny Mandel, Jackie DeShannon, Larry Dunn and Al McKay. The Hall of Fame celebrates composers and lyricists. The ...

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Teen Jazz Violinist Jonathan Russell Earns ASCAP Honor

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2010

New York, NY -- Jonathan Russell, the award winning fourteen-year-old jazz violinist from the Bronx has received an Honorable Mention in the 2010 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards for his piece “Danny's Groove". The ASCAP Awards are presented by The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers with additional support from The Gibson Foundation and were established in 2002 to acknowledge and encourage composers younger than 30 years of age. Russell is the youngest composer this year to have his ...

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2010 Blues Hall of Fame Inductees

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2010

The Blues Foundation has announced the artists that it will be inducting into its Hall of Fame this year, and they've really done a great job with their choices--much better, in my humble estimation, than the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation has done lately with their inductions.

Chaired by publisher Jim O'Neal, founding editor of Living Blues magazine, the Hall of Fame committee is comprised of blues scholars, historians, record producers, and radio programmers. The Blues Hall of ...

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Monday Jazz: Golden Ear Awards Tonight!

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
February 16, 2010

Tonight the Seattle jazz community will meet at The Triple Door to celebrate the 2009 Golden Ear Awards. The show kicks off at 7:00pm with Greg Williamsons A-Y-P Large Ensemble performing. EARSHOTS GOLDEN EAR AWARDS - THE TRIPLE DOOR 216 Union Street Seattle, WA 98101 Tickets 206.838.4333 7:00pm Other events happening tonight TOST: Michael Shrieves Spellbinder TULAS JAZZ CLUB: Jazz Jam with Darin Clendenin Trio NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet POGGIE TAVERN: ...

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Gail Marten: A Very Good Year

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2010

Gail Marten's CD In Love Again, recorded with Larry Willis, Herman Burney and Eric Kennedy, and released in October 2009 was chosen one of The 20 Best Vocal CDs of 2009 by Jazzhouse Diaries. The honor was announced by noted jazz writer, critic and broadcaster W. Royal Stokes on December 29th. The music from the CD is in regular rotation on radio worldwide. Cathay Pacific Airlines is just one of the international airlines that will be playing the music from ...

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2010

NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY - 82ND AWARDS -

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) George Clooney in “Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Colin Firth in “A Single Man" (The Weinstein Company) Morgan Freeman in “Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker" ...

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Grammy/Jazz Reprise

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
February 2, 2010

For those of you lacking the courage or patience to endure the glitz and non-music that dominate the Grammy Awards, here is a rundown of Sunday night's winners in the jazz-related categories. Congrats to every one of the fine nominees as well. How sad that jazz doesn't get a significant place on the Grammy stage anymore. It was great , however, to see Clark Terry present for his Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledgment. The Recording Academy comp'ed him a room - ...

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Grammy Win - Ulysses Owens Jr., Drummer on Kurt Elling's Dedicated to You!

Source: Kari-On Productions
February 2, 2010

Ulysses Owens, Jr. Drummer on “Dedicated to You" Winner of The GRAMMY for Best Vocal Jazz Album Kurt Elling brings home his very first GRAMMY for the exquisitely beautiful, tasteful, and always swingin' Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman. This was Kurt Ellings's ninth nomination—each and every Elling album has been nominated. Laurence Hobgood was also nominated this year for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist for the title tune, “Dedicated to You," done ...

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