Award / Grant News

Additional Shows in L'astral Susie Arioli Receives the Oscar Peterson Award

Source: Michael Ricci
July 3, 2009

The Susie Arioli concert, presented Saturday, July 4 at 6 p.m. as part of the En voix Rio Tinto Alcan series, will be the breakthrough concert for the popular jazz singer-with Thtre Maisonneuve in Place des Arts already sold out, and the Festival International de Jazz de Montral presenting her with the 2009 Oscar Peterson Award 2009. The prestigious award will be presented to her by Laurent Saulnier, vice president of Festival programming, during a press briefing schedued for today, ...

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ACE Honors Avid's Media Composer

Source: All About Jazz
June 30, 2009

Software nod amounts to unprecedented endoresement

In an announcement that combines kudos to one company, a jab at another and a warning flare for producers, the American Cinema Editors board of directors is honoring Avid's Media Composer software with the org's first-ever ACE Technical Excellence Award. The nod amounts to an unprecedented endorsement of a commercial product by ACE, which is coming down squarely on the side of one entry in the editing systems competish.

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Jim Widner Receives Award from Down Beat Magazine

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 26, 2009

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

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

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

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

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

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 23, 2009

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.

Bob Gluck Named Keyboard Magazine's "Unsigned Artist of the Month" for June 2009

Source: All About Jazz
June 22, 2009

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

Source: Two for the Show Media
June 18, 2009

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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