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Back Home in Mali, Khaira Arby Wins National Award
The Tamani d'Or: Mali Lavishes Love on Crossover Indie Darling and Pioneering Singer Khaira Arby with an Achievement Award It's a rare artist who can take the U.S. media and SXSW by storm while garnering profound respect as a cultural leader in her homeland. And it's even rarer when that artist can keep true to her ...
New Brunswick Jazz Project garners award from City Market
The New Brunswick Jazz Project has been up and running for a little more than a year and the effort to make New Brunswick a jazz music destination is already receiving recognition. The New Brunswick City Market, a nonprofit group that promotes the city's businesses and the revitalization of its downtown area, gave the jazz project ...
Letters to Naras: Rachel Faro Writes About the Latin Jazz Grammy
On Wednesday April 6th, The National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences announced a “restructuring" of The Grammy Awards, a move that included the elimination of the Latin Jazz Grammy. This unfortunate decision undermines the integrity of Latin Jazz and disregards its importance as a major piece of the cultural landscape in the United States. I ...
Letters to Naras: Doug Beavers Writes About the Latin Jazz Grammy
On Wednesday April 6th, The National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences announced a “restructuring" of The Grammy Awards, a move that included the elimination of the Latin Jazz Grammy. This unfortunate decision undermines the integrity of Latin Jazz and disregards its importance as a major piece of the cultural landscape in the United States. I ...
Los Angeles Musicians Protest the Elimination of the Latin Jazz Grammy
A unified community full of strength and conviction can overcome any odds when they join together, a fact currently being proved as musicians from the Latin Jazz world and beyond battle the “restructuring" of the Grammys by NARAS. At first glance, this struggle may reflect a bit of a David and Goliath scenario, with the big ...
Complete List of 17 Latin Jazz Grammy Winners (1995 - 2011)
In 1995, the National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences fixed a tragic error by establishing a Grammy Award that recognized the work of Latin Jazz artists. After spending 36 years ignoring the impressive artistic output of musicians that blended the improvisatory leanings of jazz with Caribbean and South American culture, NARAS created an award that ...
North Carolina Symphony Announces 2011 Bryan Youth Concerto Competition Winners
RALEIGH, N.C.—Saxophone is not an instrument traditionally heard at a North Carolina Symphony concert, but that doesn't mean the Symphony can't recognize a good sound when it hears one. For the first time, a saxophonist has won the North Carolina Symphony's Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Youth Concerto Competition. Winston-Salem native Steven Banks, 17, took ...
"Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm - Portrait of a Jazz Legend" Wins Telly Award
The international Telly Awards, which recognizes excellence in the film and video industries, has honored Jazzed Media with a 2011 Telly Award- Bronze for the documentary film Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm- Portrait of a Jazz Legend. The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated producer and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of ...
2011 British Parliamentary Jazz Awards Are Announced
On May 18 the Terrace Bar of the House of Commons played host to the 2011 Parliamentary Jazz Awards—the seventh such awards, sponsored by PPL. Hosted by broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, many MPs, peers and renowned jazz musicians were present on the night including Jamie Cullum, Dame Cleo Laine and Lord David Steel of Aikwood. The awards ...
New Honor for Randy Weston
NEA JAZZ MASTER RANDY WESTON TO RECEIVE HIS MAJESTY KING MOHAMMED VI'S HONOR FOR HIS LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO MOROCCO'S GNAOUA MUSIC TRADITION ON MAY 11 The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, welcomes leading Moroccan cultural and intellectual figures for a series of talks from May 1-21 on the occasion of ...
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