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Girls Groove In 30 Countries During First Two Weeks Of "Hit Like A Girl"
San Jose, Calif., — Hit Like A Girl: The Contest For Female Drummers today reported that video entries have been posted by female drummers from more than 30 different countries. The contest is produced by DRUM! Magazine in conjunction with TRX Cymbals and Tom Tom Magazine. Girls and women of all ages are invited to submit ...
Jazz Pianist Tigran Wins $35,000 Prize for Contemporary Music
The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to announce Yo-Yo Ma as the winner of the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Contemporary Music. While Mr. Ma is widely acknowledged as a master cellist in the field of classical music, the Vilcek Prize is the first to recognize and honor his contributions to contemporary music. The annual Vilcek Prize in ...
Jazz Bassist Stanley Clarke Praises 55th Annual Grammy Awards For Including Jazz In Its Televised Broadcast
Jazz greats Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Kenny Garrett performed on the televised CBS broadcast of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday night, February 10, in a tribute to jazz legend Dave Brubeck. They performed one of Brubeck’s best remembered pieces, “Take Five,” ending with a few bars of his enduring hit, “Blue Rondo a la ...
Grammy Winners 2013: Jazz List
Best Improvised Jazz Solo “Hot House" Gary Burton & Chick Corea, soloists Track from: Hot House Concord Jazz Best Jazz Vocal Album Radio Music Society Esperanza Spalding Heads Up International Best Jazz Instrumental Album Unity Band Pat Metheny ...
CBS Email to Grammy Peformers: "Avoid Exposing Bare Fleshy Under Curves of the Buttocks"
(UPDATED) Every year CBS' Standard And Practice group issues a warning to Grammy performers and presenters dubbed affectionately, the 'Wardrobe Advisory', and almost every year some performer intentionally or via a “malfunction" falls well beyond (or below) CBS' stated decency standards. This year, CBS and The Grammy's decided to get specific with warnings that include: “Thong ...
Legacy names Nina Simone "Artist of the Month"
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, commemorates the life and music of Nina Simone on the occasion of the singer's 80th birthday and celebrates the iconic High Priestess of Soul as the label's Artist of the Month for February 2013. Nina Simone, who would've turned 80 on February 21, was a strong and ...
Wayne Sulc Nominated For Urban Contemporary Instrumentalist By The Washington Area Music Association
Saxman Wayne Sulc was nominated for URBAN CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTALIST by the Washington Area Music Association, “WAMA”. The 27th Annual Wammies are to be presented on Sunday February 17th at the State Theater in Falls Church Virgina at 8:00 PM. WAMA is an umbrella organization of Washington area musicians, concert promoters, lawyers, recording engineers, managers, graphic artists, ...
Jazz FM Awards 2013 Nominees Announced
And the Nominees are... Jamie Cullum, Sonny Rollins and Roller Trio up for the Inaugural Jazz FM Awards 2013 With three months to go until the first Jazz FM Awards Powered by Klipsch, the nominations have been announced today, revealing that 2013 see’s Jamie Cullum up for UK Jazz Artist of the ...
NEA Launches Guidelines, Webinar & Content for Music
The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to announce application guidelines are available for Grants for Arts Projects in Music: Arts Works & Challenge America Fast-Track deadlines are March, May, and August 2013. Applicants must be nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations; units of state or local government; or federally recognized tribal communities or tribes with at ...
CultureCatch.com's Best Of 2012 List
CultureCatch.com's annual Best New Jazz Albums list is out. Sitting at #1 is David S. Ware & Planetary Unknown's album on AUM Fidelity, Live at Jazz Festival Saalfelden 2011. Artist of the Year honors go to Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman, who released six albums on Leo Records in 2012. Top historical recording is the Miles Davis ...
