Award / Grant News

Jackson Earns American Music Awards Nod

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2009

Michael Jackson has a chance to win artist of the year posthumously at the American Music Awards. Country star Taylor Swift tops all artists with six nominations.

Fans will select winners by online voting. The awards will be televised Nov. 22 on ABC from Los Angeles.

Jackson is up against Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kings of Leon and Taylor Swift for the shows top honor. Jackson died in Los Angeles on June 25, in the midst of rehearsals for a comeback ...

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Jazz Singer/Songwriter Halie Loren Wins Just Plain Folks 2009 “Best Vocal Jazz Album” Award

Source: Michael Ricci
October 8, 2009

Eugene, Oregon-October 7, 2009- Halie Loren has made her mark in Indie music over the years with several highly acclaimed releases. Most recently the jazz singer and songwriter was awarded for her excellence in both vocals and recording at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards 2009.

Halie walked away with the coveted Best Vocal Jazz Album for the superb 2008 release, They Oughta Write a Song. A collection of standards, jazzified classics, and three of her ...

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Charlie Haden to Receive a Lifetime Achievement Award

Source: Michael Ricci
October 7, 2009

On Saturday evening October 24 at 8:00 p.m., Juan Alderete, Thomas Pridgen and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta will perform at a concert at Hollywood's Key Club which will include a presentation of Bass Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Awards to jazz legend Charlie Haden and R&B legend Rocco Prestia. Haden (in duo with pianist Alan Broadbent) and Prestia (backed by Tower Of Power bandmates Dave Garibaldi, Larry Braggs, Mark Harper and Roger Smith) will also perform, and the show ...

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Riverfront Times Announces 2009 "Best of St. Louis" Winners

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 6, 2009

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Joe Wilder to be Honored by Manhattan School of Music

Source: Michael Ricci
October 5, 2009

Four Manhattan School of Music alumni are being honored at a special alumni homecoming reception on October 16, 2009. Joe Wilder, Capt. Kenneth Force, Elliot Goldenthal, and Laquita Mitchell will be recognized for their significant career accomplishments as well as for service to Manhattan School of Music. The Distinguished Alumni Awards Presentation, held in the School's Alan M. and Joan Taub Ades Performance Space, is part of the 2009 All-Alumni Reunion. Following the reception, there will be a performance by ...

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Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces First Round Grants for Jazz.Next Program

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2009

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces First Round Grants for Jazz.NEXT Program. $424,900 Awarded to Support Jazz Through the Use of Technology

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation has announced the first round of grants for the Jazz.NEXT program. Jazz.NEXT is a new national jazz initiative designed to encourage the application of technology in substantive and innovative approaches to developing audiences; communicating with the public; marketing, distributing, and selling the work of jazz artists; and building a more robust jazz infrastructure better positioned ...

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Jazz Bass Legend Charlie Haden to Receive a Lifetime Achievement Award

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2009

Along with Legendary Soul/Funk Bassist Rocco Prestia of Tower of Power at Bass Player Live! October 24 Bass Player LIVE! will include clinics, demos, and appearances from top musicians at SIR Studios, 6465 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 24 – 25, 2009. On Saturday evening October 24 at 8:00 p.m., Juan Alderete (Mars Volta) and special guests will perform at a concert at Hollywood’s Key Club which will include a presentation of Bass Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Awards ...

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Dave Brubeck Receives Berklee Honorary Doctorate

Source: Michael Ricci
September 22, 2009

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