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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 ...
Bobby Rush Earns Grammy Nomination for Down in "Louisiana"
Mississippi roots artist Bobby Rush’s Down in Louisiana (Deep Rush/ Thirty Tigers) has been nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Blues Album. Produced by Paul Brown at his Ocean Soul Studios in Nashville, the disc revels in the grit, grind and soul that’s been the blues innovator’s trademark since the 1960s, when Rush stood ...
The Critics' Choices
Try as I might to ignore requests to vote in polls, I don’t seem to be able to say no to Francis Davis. This year, the eminent critic persuaded 136 people to take part in his annual critics poll, which he has moved to the website of National Public Radio. He asked writers, broadcasters, bloggers and ...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Names 2014 Inductees: Nirvana, Kiss and More
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2014 inductees. They are Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens and Linda Ronstadt. The E Street Band will be given the Award for Musical Excellence. Original Beatles manager Brian Epstein and original Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham will each receive the Ahmet Ertegun ...
Billy Joel, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock Honored at Kennedy Center (Video)
The elite of Washington D.C. honored five giants of the performing arts Sunday night at the 36th annual Kennedy Center Honors. Billy Joel, Carlos Santana, jazz musician Herbie Hancock, opera singer Martina Arroyo and Shirley MacLaine were saluted in a ceremony that will air Dec. 29 on CBS. President Obama served as the master of ceremonies. Watch: ...
