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Jazz Award Goes to Director of Jazz-Institut Darmstadt

Wolfram Knauer awarded with the “Hessischer Jazz Preis 2002" for his achievements in establishing the Jazz-Institut Darmstadt as an internationally acclaimed information and documentation center on jazz. Wolfram Knauer (44), musicologist and director of the Jazz-Institut Darmstadt, has been named as the recipient of the prestigious “Hessischer Jazzpreis 2002" (Hesse Jazz Award 2002) for his achievements ...

Julius Hemphill Composition Awards

Jazz Composers Alliance Box 491, Allston, MA 02134 (781) 899-3130 [email protected] 05/22/02 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JAZZ COMPOSERS ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF THE 2001 JULIUS HEMPHILL COMPOSITION AWARDS: CATEGORY 1 (Large Ensembles) Awards ($500) to: Christina Fuchs, Koln, German; John Rapson, Iowa City, IA; Joey Sellers, Dekalb, Il Finalists (receive Mark of the Unicorn Music Software): Aaron ...

Winners of the BBC Radio Jazz Awards 2002

1st Annual Masters of American Music Film Festival Swings Into New York

The 1st Annual Masters of American Music Film Festival premieres at the Anthology Film Archives (2nd Street & 2nd Avenue) on August 24th and 25th. Conceived by Peter M. Hargrove, an ardent music fan and CEO of the film & television distribution company Hargrove Entertainment, the film festival has been designed to highlight the people and ...

European Jazz Prize for Tomasz Stańko

Polish jazz composer and trumpeter Tomasz Stańko was awarded a first European Prize, a newly founded prize for outstanding European jazz musicians. In the final round of voting among 21 jazz critics from 21 different European countries, Stańko won ten votes, against nine votes for Dutch piano player Misha Mengelberg. Pawel Brodowski, Editor-in-Chief of the Polish ...

Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival Name Richmond's Carlin Muccular Seventh Jimmy Lyons Scholar

Presentation to be made by Albert “Tootie" Heath, 2 pm Sunday Monterey and Boston, Sept. 20, 2002-- Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival announced today that Carlin Muccular of Richmond, CA is the seventh recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee, a major jazz education prize. The scholarship is named in honor ...

Blue Note Artists Chucho Valdes, Bebo Valdes & Gonzalo Rubalcaba Win Latin Grammy Awards

Eight Latin Grammys for Warner Music Latina Artists

Two Legends Honored By Jammin Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2003 American Jazz Masters Fellowship Recipients

San Francisco, CA...The National Endowment for the Arts today announced that saxophonist Jimmy Heath, percussionist Elvin Jones, and vocalist Abbey Lincoln will receive the 2003 American Jazz Masters Fellowships. The awards recognize significant contributions to jazz, artistic excellence and impact on the music field. Every year, a panel of experts selects up to three artists from ...