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2010 Blues Hall of Fame Inductees
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All About Jazz
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!
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Seattle Jazz Scene
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
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All About Jazz
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
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All About Jazz
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
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
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!
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Kari-On Productions
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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Familiar Names Dot Grammy Jazz Categories
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Michael Ricci
The late keyboardist Joe Zawinul takes the contemporary prize, with Chick Corea and John McLaughlin getting the instrumental award. But singer Kurt Elling wins his first Grammy. In a year when the nominees in jazz featured a welcome number of young and under-recognized artists, Grammy voters couldn't resist the pull of familiar names when it came time to choose a winner. The late Joe Zawinul, keyboardist for the fusion supergroup Weather Report and Miles Davis' “In a Silent Way," took ...
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Grammy Winners 2010: Jazz
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Michael Ricci
= winner
Field 10 -- Jazz
Category 44
Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)
Urbanus Stefon Harris & Blackout [Concord Jazz] Sounding Point Julian Lage [Emarcy/Decca] At World's Edge Philippe Saisse [E1 Music] Big Neighborhood Mike Stern [Heads Up International] 75 Joe Zawinul & The ...Continue Reading
