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Riverfront Times Announces 2011 Music Award Nominees
The Riverfront Times today announced the nominees for the 2011 RFT Music Awards. This year's contenders for “Best Jazz Artist" are guitarist Dave Black, saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett, pianist Peter Martin, singer Denise Thimes and pianist Reggie Thomas. In addition, several jazz and creative musicians and groups also showed up as nominees in other categories. Multi-instrumentalist Lamar ...
Grammys Cut 31 Categories. Indies Hit Hardest
The Recording Academy announced today that The Grammys are reducing award categories from 109 to 78. Hardest hit are indie labels and artists who often benefit from recognition in many of the eliminated categories. The minimum number of entries per category has been upped to 40 from 25. Award categories often won by indies that that ...
MTV Spotlights Music Tech for New Awards Show
MTV's new awards show, The O Music Awards, is now announcing categories and nominees. The best thing about it? Music tech companies are also getting recognized for their efforts. Unlike MTV's other shows, The O Music Awards will run year-round and continue to report on the changes in the digital music sector. This show, along with ...
Vibraphonist Jim Hart Nominated For Musician Of The Year In Parlimentary Jazz Awards
Brian Kellock, Django Bates and Jim Hart have been nominated for musician of the year in this year's Parliamentary Jazz Awards, one of the most prestigious set of jazz awards on the UK jazz calendar, while Bates also picks up a second nomination in the album of the year category, this time vying with John Turville, ...
Hammer Klavier Trio video nominated for Video-of-the-Year candidate by the Jazz Journalists Association
The latest video of the Hammer Klavier Trio (see below) was nominated for Video-of-the-Year by the 2011 Awards by the Jazz Journalists Association. The video was recorded during their performance at the “Überjazz Festival—Die 7. Hamburger Jazztage" on October 30, 2010 at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. Take a look at the video and view the other ...
Beats & Pieces Big Band - European Young Artists' Jazz Award Winners 2011
Efpi Records is proud to announce that the Beats & Pieces Big Band have been named as the winners of the 2011 Burghausen European Young Artists' Jazz Award. Their prize was a cheque for £ 15,000 and the honour of performing the opening concert of the 42nd Burghausen International Jazz Festival in Germany, taking to the ...
Kellylee Evans Wins Canada's 2011 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year
Kellylee Evans has won Canada's 2011 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. The album, entitled Nina (Plus Loin Music), is a tribute to jazz great Nina Simone. Other nominees for the 2011 award included Emilie-Claire Barlow, Nikki Yanofsky, Laila Biali and the late Jeff Healey. This was the Ottawa-based singer-songwriter's second Juno Award ...
Meet The Composer offers two $7,000 Van Lier Fellowships
Meet The Composer/Van Lier Fellowships 2011 Call for Applications Deadline: April 11th, 2011 meetthecomposer.org The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust provides support for talented, culturally diverse young people who are seriously dedicated to a career in the arts. Meet The Composer administers the Van Lier ...
Trumpeter Jeff Lofton wins Best Jazz Band 2010-2011 Austin Music Awards @ SXSW
Austin—With a nod to Louis Armstrong, and a rallying cry of “Jazz to the People," jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton accepted the Best Jazz Band award at the 2010-2011 Austin Music Awards at SXSW last Saturday. Next week, April Fool's Day, marks Lofton's four-year anniversary of moving to Austin, and the celebrating started earlier this week with ...
The Winner of the #SXSW Music Accelerator Is...
The Grand Prize winner of the SXSW Music Accelerator is Roqbot. It is a new company and mobile app that enables you to vote for which songs should be playing in bars, restaurants, and cafes, making you the DJ. The runners-up were RootMusic and Next Big Sound, two companies that should be familiar to the Hypebot ...
