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P-D Story Celebrates Award for Clark Terry

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 31, 2010

As first mentioned here on StLJN back in December, trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry (pictured) will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in conjunction with this year's Grammy Awards.To celebrate the occasion, Calvin Wilson of the Post-Dispatch has a feature story in today's paper about Terry and how he's part of a great tradition of St. Louis jazz trumpeters; you can read it online here. (Note that ...

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Neil Young MusicCares Person of the Year

Source: Michael Ricci
January 30, 2010

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Norah Jones, Dave Matthews, CSN, Elton John, Wilco and more pay tribute to Neil Young

Neil Young is hardly the oldest guy in pop music. Accepting the award for MusiCares Person of the Year at Friday's annual gala at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the 64- year-old musician, philanthropist and activist gazed out at the crowd and somewhat gratefully singled out previous honoree Tony Bennett, who's nearly 20 years his senior. Yet something about Young's ...

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Roman Miroshnichenko: The Independent Music Awards Winner!

Source: All About Jazz
January 30, 2010

Kimberly Bjorklund President of K&B Entertainment and our Global Partners congratulates Mr. Roman Miroshnichenko on winning the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards in the category of “World Traditional Song." The song nominated was “Unforgiven" from his top selling CD Temptation. The Winners in more than 50 album, song, music video and design categories culled from thousands of submissions from around the globe, were determined by a panel of 80 influential artists and industry pros including Tom Waits, The Black Keys, ...

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Paul Jackson's Song "Funky Fingers" Makes the Top 10 of "New Jazz Funk Songs of the Last Decade"

Source: Michael Ricci
January 28, 2010

Herbie Hancock and the Headhunter's virtuoso bass player Paul Jackson's song “Funky Fingers" makes the top 10 of “New Jazz Funk Songs of the Last Decade." Tokyo, Japan - “Funky Fingers" featuring Jackson on bass/vocals, Mike Clark on drums, Bill Summers on percussion Herbie Hancock on keyboards and Jerry Stucker on guitar, is #7 on “New Jazz Funk Songs of the Last Decade" fan poll. The cd is titled “Funk On A Stick" and is on Backdoor Records (BD 1041). ...

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Derrick Gardner Wins Independent Music Award for Jazz Album "Echoes of Ethnicity"

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
January 27, 2010

INDIANAPOLIS, January 26, 2010 - Echoes of Ethnicity, the most recent album by Derrick Gardner and The Jazz Prophets for Owl Studios, today was named by Music Resource Group (MRG) as a Winner in The 9th annual Independent Music Awards, the influential awards program for independent bands and fans, for Best Jazz Album. This prestigious award adds to the long list of accolades Echoes of Ethnicity has received in 2009. When informed, the nearly speechless trumpeter Derrick Gardner said, “That's ...

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Charlie Wilson Fills the Gaps in His Life's Winding Road

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2010

Full circle: Charlie Wilson shows the alley he slept in as a homeless person after his Gap Band days in Hollywood. Wilson has renewed his life and career.

HOLLYWOOD “This building wasn't here," Charlie Wilson says, waving at a high-rise condo under construction along busy La Brea Avenue. “It was a parking lot for U-Hauls. I slept under them when it rained. So did a lot of other crackheads."

He brushes a tear from his cheek. Revisiting the haunts of ...

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Clark Terry Receives 2010 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

Source: Michael Ricci
January 25, 2010

In a special invitation-only ceremony to be held during GRAMMY Week on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, and a formal acknowledgment during the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards telecast, which will be held at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, and broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network, one of Jazz's most beloved citizens, Clark Terry will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Recording Academy . “This year's honorees are a prestigious group ...

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Overdue Honor at Grammys

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
January 22, 2010

Amid all of the deserved, but lingering, attention that will be heaped upon the Michael Jackson legacy at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards on January 31, there will be some attention paid to JAZZ. Trumpeter Clark Terry, 89, will receive the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award. Other lifetime honorees this year are Leonard Cohen, Bobby Darin, David “Honeyboy" Edwards, Michael Jackson, Loretta Lynn and Andre Previn. They will be feted at a special ceremony the night before the Grammys 'main ...

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