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Hank Jones Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2009

The Recording Academy awarded HANK JONES with a Lifetime Achievement Award this past weekend at the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards. Hank Jones is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer who throughout his illustrious career has recorded more than 60 albums under his own name and countless others as a guest. His accessible playing style has embodied the essence of mainstream jazz, making him one of the most sought after and recorded jazz pianists throughout history. 441 and Test of ...

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Recording

Ray Charles Definitive Anthology Coming On Concord Records on April 7

Source: conqueroo
February 10, 2009

Set due in stores April 7. Most songs available digitally for the first time.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Commencing an extensive Ray Charles reissue program for 2009, Concord Records will release a 21-song anthology of hits titled Ray Charles — Genius: The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection. The volume, slated for a street date of April 7, 2009, presents Charles’ most influential recordings for the Atlantic and ABC-Paramount labels including 1955’s “I Got a Woman” plus “Busted,” “Georgia on My Mind,” ...

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Performance / Tour

Leni Stern to Perform at SXSW, March 19th

Source: Seth Cohen PR
February 10, 2009

Leni Stern has confirmed a March 19th showcase at SXSW, at Austin’s Copa on Congress. Stern will be accompanied by members of her international touring band, as she and the group return to the U.S. following a series of European performances in early March. Leni Stern is a Global Music artist and electric guitarist whose acclaimed CD 'Africa' has been described as “one of the finest CDs of the past year, in any genre." Two years in the making, the ...

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Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2009

= winner

Category 45

Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball Adderley (Various Artists) Gregg Field & Tom Scott, producers [Concord Jazz] Miles From India (Various Artists)

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Grammy Jazz Picks Stick to a Middle Octave

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2009

Chick Corea and Randy Brecker delivered skillfully, but they weren't the forward-looking choices.

In the can't-please-everybody proposition that is the Grammy Awards, it's difficult to find much fault in the Recording Academy's choice to again honor piano great Chick Corea with a best jazz instrumental album award.

Still, as close as Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton might have come to recapturing the magic of the classic Crystal Silence released in 1972, it's hard not to think the voters again reached ...

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The Grammys Turn up the Volume

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2009

Yes, trophies are given out. But they are secondary to the celebration of music that was displayed.

If the apocalypse is here, we might as well enjoy it. Stomp down the doors of your comfort zone. Hook up with unlikely new friends. Get noisy. Have a party before the flames consume us all.

That seemed to be the prevailing attitude during the 2009 Grammy Awards telecast Sunday night. Times are beyond tough for the music industry and cultural endeavors in ...

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Grammy Full-Tilt Performances and Defiant Bravado

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2009

At the Grammy Awards, the oldest songs win album of the year.

Raising Sand, the duo album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with sparse, evocative versions of songs that date back as far as the 1950s, won awards in pop, country and contemporary folk categories before being named album of the year.

It was one in a long line of winning albums with old songs, from last years winner, Herbie Hancocks Joni Mitchell tribute River: The Joni Letters, to ...

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Technology

Merger Expected of Ticketmaster and Live Nation

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2009

Ticketmaster is expected on Monday to announce an agreement to merge with Live Nation in a deal that could reshape the music and live entertainment business.

Barring a last-minute twist, the boards of both companies were planning to meet to approve the merger after the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, people close to the deal said.

The merger, if approved by regulators, would create a company with almost $6 billion in revenue and a dominant position up and down the ...

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