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Stem Artist Lisa Young - Artist In Residence - Commissioned To Write A Massed Choir Piece For Gondwana Voices
Gondwana Choirs commissioned Stem's Artist Lisa Young to write a massed choir piece for their national choral school. Lisa Young is Gondwana Voices 'Composer In Residence'. This piece was premiered at: Gondwana Choirs National Choral School Concerts, The Concourse, Chatswood, Australia on Saturday January 18th, 2014 during the “saturday concerts" The Saturday concerts were the culmination ...
Chamber Music America Announces 2014 New Jazz Works Deadline
Chamber Music America announces a March 7, 2014 application deadline for its 2014 New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development grant opportunity. New Jazz Works supports U.S. jazz ensembles (2-10 musicians) with the creation and performance of new works, and activities that extend the life of the work. To date, 171 projects have been funded through ...
Independent Music Wins 50% of 2014 Grammys
Independent music took home 50 % of the awards at last nights 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards, the highest percentage of wins since indie label trade group A2IM began tracking the awards in 2006. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won in four categories, including Best New Artist and Best Rap Album, for their independently released album, The Heist. ...
Grammy Winners 2014: The Full List
Daft Punk's “Get Lucky" won record of the year and the duo's “Get Lucky" won the year's top album, at last night's 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Rising stars were rewarded as well, with Lorde, Kacey Musgraves and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis taking home key awards. Album of the Year Daft Punk, Random Access Memories (Julian Casablancas, DJ Falcon, Todd ...
56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees: Jazz
31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo Orbits Wayne Shorter, soloist Track from: Without A Net (The Wayne Shorter Quartet) Label: Blue Note Records Don't Run Terence Blanchard, soloist Track from: Magnetic Label: Blue Note Records Song For Maura Paquito D'Rivera, soloist ...
6 Things I Learned Submitting My Music for a Grammy
By Musician and Marketing Consultant Solveig Whittle (@shadesofsolveig). Sometime in the summer of 2013, I decided to join The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), AKA The Academy®. I had heard it was a great way to network with other local musicians – including Seattle’s own Grammy®-winning writers, producers and artists like Sir Mix-A-Lot, ...
The New NEA Jazz Masters: Jamey Aebersold
With a 1962 Indiana University master’s degree in saxophone, Jamey Aebersold might have carved out a career as a performer. He has never stopped playing, but a casual request set him on a course that led to success as the best-known third-party teacher in jazz. In 1966, a student at a workshop asked Aebersold, who is ...
The New NEA Jazz Masters: Anthony Braxton
There has been disagreement for more than forty years about whether the saxophonist, composer and sometime pianist Anthony Braxton is a jazz musician. With many others, he long insisted that the music he wrote and played was not jazz, but in 1993 he told author Cole Gagne, “...even though I have been saying I’m not a ...
The New NEA Jazz Masters: Keith Jarrett
Pianist Keith Jarrett is one of the four new NEA Jazz Masters who will accept their awards at Lincoln Center Monday evening. In its advance publicity, the National Endowment for the Arts says that Jarrett has a “talent for playing both abstractly and lyrically, sometimes during the same song.” True as that assessment is, it doesn’t ...
A Happy New Year Full of Jazz/Rock is Here -- Time to Party Like It's 1969!
(In case that headline is puzzling you... 1969 is the year Columbia released Miles Davis' In A Silent Way, and the year after the release of Filles de Kilimanjaro, when the Dark Prince got the party started and electricity started running through his veins.) Three weeks ago I received an email from Hungarian guitarist László ...
