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Trumpeter Derrick Gardner Receives Two Independent Music Award Nominations
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
INDIANAPOLIS - Owl Studios is proud to announce that bandleader and trumpeter Derrick Gardner has received two nominations from the Independent Music Awards. Derrick and his group The Jazz Prophets have been nominated in the Jazz Album Category for his 2009 Owl Studios release Echoes of Ethnicity. The second nomination for Owl Studios and Derrick Gardner is in the Jazz Song Category for the track 'Mercury Blvd.' Within the Jazz Category Nominations, Derrick Gardner and The Jazz Prophets is the ...
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Grammy Nominations 2010: Jazz
Source:
Michael Ricci
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 Zawinul Syndicate ...Continue Reading
Origin Records Receives Grammy Nomination
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Seattle Jazz Scene
Los Angeles composer Tim Davies was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for the tune Counting To Infinity off his Origin Records release, Dialmentia. This is Origin Records seventh Grammy nomination.
Best Instrumental Composition (A Composers Award for an original composition (not an adaptation) first released during the Eligibility Year. Singles or Tracks only.)
* Borat In Syracuse Paquito D'Rivera, composer (Paquito D'Rivera Quintet) Track from: Jazz-Clazz [Timba Records] ...
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52nd Grammy Noms: Phish, Bela, DMB, Byrne/Eno
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JamBase
BELA FLECK, DMB, DAVID BYRNE/BRIAN ENO, PHISH RECEIVE GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
Bela Fleck The 52nd Annual Grammy Nominations were announced last night, including some relevant JamBase artists. To be eligible for an award, artists must have released a recording between October 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009.
Among those receiving nominations were David Byrne and Brian Eno's Everything That Happens Will Happen Today for Best Alternative Music Album, Dave Matthews Band's Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King for Album of the ...
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Solid Choices in Grammy Jazz Nominations
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Michael Ricci
Allen Toussaint's 'Bright Mississippi' is in the running in the best instrumental album category. The Bay Area's Julian Lage is one of the contemporary nominees, as is veteran Mike Stern. Grammy voters might have made some baffling choices this year (seriously, Hall & Oates?), but not when it came to the jazz categories. Though there was speculation that Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi might sneak into the major categories with its rich, reverent take on the classic sound of New ...
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Quartet San Francisco's Brubeck CD a Double Grammy Nominee
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Quartet San Francisco received two Grammy nominations yesterday for their latest Violinjazz Recordings CD, QSF Plays Brubeck. The CD, which is the first all-Brubeck string quartet recording, was nominated in the Classical Crossover category and is the group's third consecutive Best Album nomination. QSF Plays Brubeck was also nominated as Best Engineered Classical CD. The disc was recorded by Judy Kirschner at Skywalker Ranch, Nicasio, CA. The quartet's previous CDs, Latigo (2006) and Whirled Chamber Music (2007), were similarly honored ...
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Jazz Arts Group Awarded $200,000 Grant by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
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Michael Ricci
Columbus, OH - The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) to create a national model for building jazz and music audiences, entitled the Jazz Audiences Initiative. The 21-month project, which spans November 1, 2009 through July 31, 2011, will enable the Jazz Arts Group to research and test new strategies for overcoming barriers to jazz participation and for building jazz audiences through more targeted marketing and programming efforts. ...
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Meet the Composer/Van Lier Fellowships: 2009 Call for Applications
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Michael Ricci
The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust provides support for talented, culturally diverse young people who are seriously dedicated to a career in the arts. Meet The Composer administers the Van Lier Fellowship on behalf of Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust. The purpose of the Fellowship is to provide financial support for young composers in the early stages of their careers, working in any style of music or sound art. ...
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