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Legendary Pianist and Composer Ahmad Jamal Named Officer in French Order of Arts and Letters
New York, NY--The French government has inducted Ahmad Jamal into its prestigious Order of the Arts and Letters, naming him Officier de L'Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres (Officer, Order of Arts and Letters). French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres honored the Pittsburgh-born pianist, arranger, composer and producer for his exceptional accomplishments in “American Classical ...
The Walter C. Allen Family Donates Extensive Reference & Research Library to the Fletcher Henderson Museum
The Allen Family of New Jersey has donated their father, Walter C. Allen's, complete library of materials to the Fletcher Henderson Museum. Walter C. Allen, the foremost authority on the career of Fletcher Henderson, was a jazz historian at the Smithsonian Institute. He was, also, one of the founding members of the Institute of Jazz Studies ...
American Society of Musicians to Host 15th Annual Awards Show at Celebrity Centre in Hollywood on June 7
West Hollywood - On Thursday, June 7, 2007 at the world famous Celebrity Centre in Hollywood, the American Society of Young Musicians (ASYM) will give again hold its highly anticipated kudos-fest giving musical honors to talented artists in the music community for having inspired young musicians with their fresh sound and for paving the way for ...
Flutist Enrique (Kalani) Trinidad Wins Presidential Scholarship
Hawaiian/Puerto Rican flutist Enrique (Kalani) Trinidad, won the Presidential Scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston on May 29, 2007. The announcement was made by scholarship director Damien Bracken. Kalani was selected for this honor out of a pool of more than 3,700 applicants this year starting in the fall class, involving an extensive ...
ASCAP to Add Six Music Greats to Jazz Wall of Fame at Jazz at Lincoln Center
NEW GROUP OF INDUCTEES INCLUDES THREE JAZZ GIANTS OF THE PAST AND LIVING LEGENDS LOUIE BELLSON, DAVE FRISHBERG, AND TERRY GIBBS WYCLIFFE GORDON TO BE RECOGNIZED WITH THE ASCAP FOUNDATION VANGUARD AWARD Event Will Also Celebrate Recipients of the 2007 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards, Sponsored by The Gibson Foundation New York, NY - ASCAP ...
Estonian Jazz Awards Go to Jaak Sooaar and Erki Parnoja
First Estonian jazz awards were handed out during International Jazzkaar Festival which is the largest jazz festival in Estonia and the whole Baltics. Elion Jazz Award was given to guitarist Jaak Sooaar, Young Jazz Talent Award went to guitarist Erki Parnoja. In this April - or Month of Jazz - Estonian biggest telecommunications and IT company ...
Soul Blues Party at the Blues Music Awards, May 10 in Memphis!
The Jackie Payne Steve Edmonson Band will be performing Thursday, May 10th at The Blues Foundation's 2007 Blues Music Awards held at Memphis' Cook Convention Center, 225 North Main Street. In addition to performing with Jackie, the band will be backing Frankie Lee, Sugar Pie DeSanto and Johnny Rawls. You'll also be treated to performances by ...
Circuit Productions Awards Music Commissions with a Grant from New York State Music Fund
Three composers receive grants to create and perform music for performances in Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World music Free concerts to take place in NYC and NYS beginning Spring- Summer 2007. Circuit Productions receives a total of $30K from the NYS Music Fund. Brooklyn, New York, May/June, 2007 Circuit Productions, Inc., the recipient of ...
Former Boston Globe Music Critic Richard Dyer to Give Commencement Address at New England Conservatory, May 20
NEC to Award Honorary Degrees to Dyer, Regina Resnik, Bruno Monsaingeon, Halim El-Dabh '53 M.M., and Wayne Shorter New England Conservatory will honor a music critic, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano, a documentary filmmaker who specializes in musical subjects, a Grammy Award-winning saxophonist/composer, and a pathbreaking Egyptian-American composer, percussionist, educator, and ethnomusicologist at its 136th Commencement Exercises, May ...
Blues Foundation's Blues Music Awards Broadcast Live on XM Radio May 10
XM Satellite Radio has entered into an agreement with The Blues Foundation for a live broadcast of the 2007 Blues Music Awards on May 10. The broadcast will begin around 6:30pm Central and continue until the last notes are played somewhere around 1:00am!!! Bluesville is channel 74 on your XM satellite radio. The 2007 Blues Music ...
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