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ASCAP to Add Seven Music Greats to Jazz Wall of Fame at Jazz at Lincoln Center Event
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All About Jazz
NEW INDUCTEES ARE LIVING LEGENDS JON HENDRICKS, JOHNNY MANDEL, ANNIE ROSS AND RANDY WESTON AND JAZZ GIANTS OF THE PAST JOHN COLTRANE, DAVE LAMBERT AND TITO PUENTE Regina Carter to be recognized with the ASCAP Foundation Vanguard Award Anat Cohen to receive The ASCAP Jazz Wall Of Fame Prize Event Will Also Celebrate Recipients of the Seventh Annual ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards, Sponsored by the Gibson Foundation New York, May 21, 2009. ASCAP President & Chairman Paul Williams ...
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Martha Lorin to Receive Milford Music Maker Award
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Lampkin Publicity Service
Lampkin Music Group is proud to announce that his client, jazz singer Martha Lorin, will be the recipient of the Milford Music Maker Awards at the Milford Music Festival on Saturday, June 6, 2009. The award is for Martha's work with the yearly festival; for having the insight to broaden the festival to include all genres of music which has definitely kept the Festival alive and moving forward. This yearly event has become a great service to the Milford, Pennsylvania ...
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Announcing 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards Nominees and Gala
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Jazz Beyond Jazz by Howard Mandel
The Jazz Journalists Association -- of which I'm president--has announced finalist nominees in 42 categories of excellence in jazz music, recording, presenting and journalism at a new website, JazzJournalists.org--which also details who's playing at the Jazz Standard (NYC) cocktail barbeque where winners will be announced on June 16, 3-6 pm. and lets you buy tickets to the event. What's a Jazz Award? I'm deep into it, but why should you care? Work on the Jazz Awards website, the finalists nominations ...
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JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
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All About Jazz
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees in more than 40 categories Introduce our 2009 “A Team" inductees (Activists, Advocates, Altruists, Aiders and Abettors of Jazz) A cocktail barbeque, featuring performances ...
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Peter Gabriel and Venezuelan Conductor Abreu Win Polar Music Prize
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All About Jazz
British pop musician Peter Gabriel was Tuesday named co-winner of the Polar Music Prize 2009 for his “ground- breaking, outward-looking and boundary-busting artistry."Gabriel shared the award with Venezuelan conductor, composer and economist Jose Antonio Abreu and the music network El Sistema that promotes classical music among mainly poor children in the South American country. The network offers participants a chance to achieve “personal development and social participation and inclusion through the collective practice of music, at the highest level, “ ...
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The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal honours Stevie Wonder, Toots & The Maytals, John Pizzarelli, Ornette Coleman and Susie Arioli and creates the new Bruce Lundvall Award
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Michael Ricci
Montreal - Stevie Wonder, Toots & The Maytals, John Pizzarelli, Ornette Coleman and Susie Arioli are the 2009 winners of the prestigious prizes awarded annually by the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal to artists who have made extraordinary contributions to the evolution of music. This year, they will receive, respectively, the Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award, Antonio Carlos Jobim Award, Ella Fitzgerald Award, Miles Davis Award and Oscar Peterson Award. Now, in keeping with a tradition dating back to ...
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Echoes of Swing: Jazz Award Presentation in France
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All About Jazz
In connection with the award for the recent Echoes of Swing CD '4 Jokers In The Pack, Colin Dawson, Chris Hopkins, Bernd Lhotzky and Oliver Mewes were invited to play a concert tour in France, which a.o. included Rouen, Limoges, Le Havre and Marennes Olron. On the 8th of May they officially received the GRAND PRIX du Disque du JAZZ (Prix Special du Hot Club du France). The award was presented by the President of Hot Club du France (established ...
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Pianist/Composer Earl R. Johnson Jr. Wins "2009 Jazz Artist of the Year" at South Bay Music Awards
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Doug Deutsch Publicity Services
LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles-based pianist/composer Earl R. Johnson, Jr. won “2009 Jazz Artist of the Year” at the recent 5th Annual South Bay Music Awards in Southern California. Additionally, the talented pianist-composer has been selected as one of only six Finalists to compete in the “6th Annual Capital Jazz Challenge,” taking place Friday, June 5 in Columbia, MD. The competition is part of the Capital Jazz Festival, Friday June 5 through Sunday June 7, 2009. Grand Prize is ...
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