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East St. Louis HS Jazz Band Named One of 15 Finalists in Essentially Ellington Competition
The jazz band from East St. Louis High School (pictured) is one of 15 ensembles from across the United States to be accepted as finalists for Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2011 Essentially Ellington jazz band. (Link goes to .pdf file.) The ESL HS band is directed by Delano Redmond, and was selected from among 110 bands ...
Congratulations to Jazz Drummer Roy Haynes on Winning Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Congratulations to Roy Haynes, who grew up in Roxbury and learned his music there, for receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Boston Herald jazz writer Bob Young noted, “Roxbury-born Roy Haynes has kept some pretty good company in his nearly seven decades in the music business. Charlie Parker, ...
The Ten Best Moments at the 53rd Annual Grammys
Before this year's Grammy awards are incorrectly written off as a series of acrimonious disappointments and bizarre twists, it's important to quickly note several very good things that happened. Not that it's easy to overlook the Grammy for Record of the Year going to a country band's tune that could well become subject to a plagiarism ...
Owl Studios' Mike Clark + Pharez Whitted Nab Best Jazz Album NOM at IMA's!
Owl Studios' Mike Clark and Pharez Whitted Each Nominated for 'Best Jazz Album' in the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards Indianapolis-Based Owl Studios Honored with Two of the Five Nominees in Top Jazz Category Clark's Album Praised as “Among the best new jazz albums to be released this year"; Whitted Delivers a “Combination of intensity and ...
The Tenth Independent Music Awards Nominees Announced
The nominees for the 10th annual Independent Music Awards were announced yesterday. Everybody who loves to complain about how the musical landscape has fractured, how the Grammys are too indie, or aren't indie enough has no excuse not to celebrate the IMAs. Plus, by voting, you'll (kinda) be joining a panel of judges that includes Tom ...
Canadian Jazz Flutist's CD Release, Mercy, Nominated for the Independent Music Awards
Canadian jazz flutist Bill McBirnie's recent release, Mercy, has been nominated in the USA for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards (IMAs) in the best Jazz Album category. Although based in the USA, the IMAs are international in scope with submissions from 70 countries across five continents. Both the IMA nominees and winners are determined on ...
Guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko Receives Independent Music Award Nomination for the 2nd year in a row!
Guitarist, composer and bandleader Roman Miroshnichenko has received nomination from the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards. Roman has been nominated in the Best World Beat Album Category for his Temptation CD release!!! The Independent Music Awards is a prestigious international program that awards top-ranked independent artists and albums the recognition they need to reach millions of ...
What Would You Call It?
Bizarre. That's the only word that seems to fit this year's primetime Sunday night glitz that was the 53rd annual Grammy Awards. If you saw it, you know what I mean. If you missed it, you didn't miss much, trust me. Sure, there were scattered poignant moments—beginning with the opening tribute to the ailing Aretha Franklin. ...
Berklee's Esperanza Spalding Wins Grammy Award for Best New Artist
Jazz singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding won the Best New Artist of the Year award at this year's 53rd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Spalding is an inventive composer and performer whose latest recording, Chamber Music Society, is influenced by classical, jazz, folk and world music. The ...
The "Indies" Didn't Just Win the Grammys. and Neither Did the Majors...
t's 2011. Can we please move past this artificial, cooked-up “indie v. major" divide? On Monday, we received an email from A2IM declaring that “indies" had “reigned" at the Grammys, while citing Arcade Fire's Album of the Year award. And within the first two paragraphs, past victors like Taylor Swift,Robert Plant, and Alison Kraus were cited. ...
