Award / Grant News

B.D. Lenz Awarded Rising Star from Gigmasters

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2009

"This means we're doing something right. GigMasters.com has become an important part of my income and gig schedule." --B.D. Lenz, Premier Contemporary Jazz Guitarist

Hackettstown, NJ -- B.D. Lenz, one of the hottest contempo-jazz guitarists on the scene today, was awarded the “Rising Star Award" for the #1 jazz band from GigMasters. The online entertainment booking service recently revealed their annual winners for 2008, based on outstanding achievement in live music and event entertainment bookings. The winners were selected from ...

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Canada's Juno Awards Given

Source: Michael Ricci
March 31, 2009

Juno Awards Given

Nickelback won awards for group and album of the year on Sunday, as well as the fan choice award at the Junos, Canadas annual music awards.

Sam Roberts, the Montreal rocker, won artist of the year, and the singer Lights was best new artist. The Toronto hip-hop artist Kardinal Offishall won for best rap recording and best single for Dangerous.

The Montreal indie rockers the Stills won for best alternative album and for new group. Alanis Morissettes ...

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SUNY Honors Grammy Winner Arturo O’Farrill, Latin Jazz Pioneer

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 26, 2009

Albany – The State University of New York Board of Trustees will celebrate Latin jazz pioneer, Grammy winning musician and SUNY faculty-member, Arturo O’Farrill at a reception in his honor at The Egg in Albany, NY on March 28. SUNY and Jazz/Latino Inc. will be co-hosts of the reception honoring O’Farrill after Afro- Latin Jazz Orchestra, and The Ballet Hispanico perform at 8 p.m. O'Farrill, pianist and director of the Purchase College Latin Jazz Orchestra, received a Grammy Award this ...

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College Television Awards Announced

Source: Michael Ricci
March 23, 2009

Students from UCLA, American Film Institute, Cal State Northridge and Art Center College of Design are among the first-place winners.

Six local students were among the first-place winners of the 30th annual College Television Awards, handed out Saturday night by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation.

Julie Sagalowsky and Josh C. Feldman of UCLA won in the comedy category for “Lucy: A Period Piece," about a teenager aching for puberty, while Daniel M. Harrich of the American Film ...

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Taylor Robinson, Jordan Nelson & Austin May - Teens Take Top Awards at Film Fest

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2009

The Phantoscope Film Festival Richmond Art Museum

Third Annual Phantoscope Indiana High School Film Festival featuring the work of teen filmmakers from all across Indiana. Student filmmakers from Lowell to Evansville and all parts in between will have their works shown on the big screen.

The Applesauce Affair a film by Jordan Nelson & Taylor Robinson of Noblesville , their first project together received Best Screenplay honors, after finishing in the finalist of top films. Screenplay by Austin May and ...

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Random Access Large Ensemble Nominated for Juno Award

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2009

Barry Romberg's Random Access Large Ensemble's latest CD “Existential Detective" has been nominated in the category of Best Contemporary Jazz Recording at the 2009 Juno Awards. The awards will be held in Vancouver the weekend of March 29th. The National Jazz Awards were just announced and Barry and cohorts are up for three; Electric Band Of The Year (Random Access) Big Band Of The Year (Random Access Large Ensemble) Drummer ...

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"Time Out" Inducted into Grammy Hall of Fame

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2009

Stockton, CA The Dave Brubeck Quartets classic album Time Out was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as one of the most significant albums of our time.

Additionally, the album is getting a second look. Legacy Records, a division of Columbia Records, announced last week that it will remaster Time Out along with albums by Miles Davis and Charles Mingus.

Time Out was one of five jazz albums released in 1959 that are considered to have changed the course ...

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Harry Connick Jr. Among Those Honored at Tulane

Source: All About Jazz
March 17, 2009

Musician and actor Harry Connick Jr., HIV co-discoverer Franoise Barr- Sinoussi, health care advocate Jessie Gruman and architect William McDonough will receive honorary degrees at Tulane University's 2009 Commencement, May 16 at 9 a.m. in the Louisiana Superdome.

The commencement marks the departure of Tulane's “Katrina Class," those students who were Tulane freshmen for only a few hours before they were forced to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall August 29, 2005, devastating the city of New Orleans ...

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