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Jim Widner Receives Award from Down Beat Magazine

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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Bassist, bandleader and educator Jim Widner (pictured), who directs the jazz studies program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is featured in the June edition of Down Beat magazine.The issue spotlights the mag's 32nd annual Student Music Awards, and Widner is one of just three recipients nationwide of an Achievement Award for jazz education. (Alas, DB doesn't put most of their content online, so there's no link to the story about Widner.)The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's gossip ...
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Origin Records Wins 2009 JazzWeek Record Label of the Year

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All About Jazz
SEATTLE'S ORIGIN RECORDS NAMED JAZZWEEK'S 2009 “LABEL OF THE YEAR” JazzWeek Awards Ceremony, Rochester, NY, June 20, 2009 ...Origin and OA2 are putting out some of the finest jazz today." Linda Yohn - WEMU, Ypsilanti, MI What can I say? The music coming out of Seattle is astounding!" Peter Kuller - Adelaide, Australia Seattle’s Origin Records was recognized as the 2009 Jazz ...
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Mario Pavone Receives Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant

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All About Jazz
Mario Pavone, internationally respected bassist, Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc. board member, and Litchfield Jazz Camp teacher, has been awarded a 2009 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant. The grant is focused on commissioning new music and on ensemble development. He was one of a handful of recipients chosen from a pool of 161 applications. Since 2000, Chamber Music Americas New Works programs have provided support to U.S. ensembles for the creation and performance of new jazz works. To date, ...
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A.J.'a Take On the J.J.A. Awards

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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Up to my ears in curricular and non-curricular matters since my return from New York, I may or may not get around to writing more about last week's Jazz Journalists Association awards afternoon. In the meantime, Arnold Jay Smith posted a lively summary on Ted Gioia's jazz.com blog. In his lead paragraph, he alludes to the demise in the past few months of of several jazz magazines, including Jazz Times, Coda and Jazz Review.
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Bob Gluck Named Keyboard Magazine's "Unsigned Artist of the Month" for June 2009

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All About Jazz
Pianist Bob Gluck's 2007 recording Electric Brew is featured in the June 2009 issue of Keyboard magazine. Naming Gluck Unsigned Artist of the Month," writer Michael Gallant wrote: Composer Bob Gluck combines lithe piano playing with processed shofar (ram’s horn) and a wide variety of computer-sourced sonics to create an engaging tapestry of living sound... Electric Brew is a welcome reminder of what magic can happen when rules are not so much broken, but taken out of the equation completely. ...
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Jazz Journalists Association Names Arturo O'Farrill's "Song for Chico" Latin Album of the Year

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Two for the Show Media
Song for Chico (Zoho Records), Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra’s 2008 release that pays tribute to the pianist’s bandleader father, the late Chico O'Farrill, has been named Latin Album of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. The organization, an international collective of more than 400 writers, editors, photographers, broadcasters, filmmakers, educators and media professionals, handed out its annual awards, covering more than 40 categories, on Tuesday, June 16th, at the Jazz Standard in New York. “Winning the ...
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2009 JJA Jazz Awards Winners

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All About Jazz
Drumroll, please! And the winners of the 2009 Jazz Journalist Association (JJA) awards are...
Top Honors 1. Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Lee Konitz 2. Musician of the Year Sonny Rollins 3. Composer of the Year Maria Schneider 4. Up and Coming Artist of the Year Esperanza Spalding 5. Events Producer of the Year George Wein, New Festival Productions
Awards for Recordings 6. Record of ...
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Origin Records Nominated for JazzWeek Label of the Year

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Seattle Jazz Scene
Honored once before in 2007, Origin Records is again among 6 labels up for Jazz Label of the Year at the 7th annual JazzWeek Awards in Rochester, NY. JazzWeek, the definitive national jazz radio airplay chart, is also a forum for hundreds in the jazz industry from radio, press, record labels, distributors, along with artists. Nominees and winners are voted upon by radio stations, disc jockeys, program syndicators, and satellite and cable broadcasters who supply airplay data to JazzWeek, and ...
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