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Dee Dee Bridgewater Receives NAACP Image Award Nomination
Dee Dee Bridgewater's Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee Receives NAACP Image Award Nomination For “Outstanding Jazz Album" NAACP Nod Follows Recent 2011 Grammy Nomination Los Angeles, CA. Dee Dee Bridgewater's stunning homage to Billie Holiday, Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee, has been nominated for a 2011 ...
Herbie Hancock To Receive Award At BET Honors
HERBIE HANCOCK TO BE HONORED BY BET JANUARY 15TH AS PART OF ANNUAL BET HONORS CEREMONY Recently nominated for three upcoming 2011 Grammy Awards for his critically-acclaimed CD, “The Imagine Project," Hancock is also set to perform at the celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's inauguration January 20th at The Kennedy Center ...
Grammys to Honor the Man: Roy Haynes
The annual Grammy Awards are a funny thing. Sometimes one wonders from what fishbowl they pulled out names to nominate for the awards. Sometimes real deserving folks win. But so much great music never any notice. And yet everyone would like one on their mantel, it only for the cachet. But dammit if they didn't do ...
John Gilbreath Lands at #17 on CityArts' List of Seattle Culturemakers
Earshot's John Gilbreath lands at #17 of CityArts magazine's list of Seattle's top culture makers. He is in between The Seattle Channel's Nancy Guppy and Pacific Northwest Ballett's Artistic Director Peter Boal ... fine company indeed. from CityArts: 17 John Gilbreath EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, EARSHOT JAZZ John Gilbreath says ...
Memphis Music Foundation and Stax Museum Congratulate al Bell on Receiving 2011 Trustees Award
Award acknowledges Al Bell's lifetime of musical excellence and cultural enrichment MEMPHIS, Tenn.—The Memphis Music Foundation and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, located at the original site of Stax Records, proudly congratulate Al Bell on receiving the highest honor the music industry offers, the Trustees Award, given by the Board of Trustees of the ...
Best in '10 - The Music
Chim Chim Cheree—Eric Alexander Quartet (Venus): One of today's most interesting tenor saxophonists, Eric Alexander, helming one of jazz's best groups, with the legendary Harold Mabern on piano, the undersung Joe Farnesworth on drums and, in this case, John Webber on bass, takes on the repertoire of the great John Coltrane and comes up with a ...
Mindblowers (Vol. 12)
As we swing out the year today, it's time for another installment of Mindblowers. For those new to JazzWax, at the end of each quarter I provide a roundup of my favorite quotes from interviews I conducted with legends over the past three months. For the other 11 volumes in this quarterly series dating back to ...
One Year in Jazz: Nine of the Best and One of the Worst.
1. Chris Standring/Blue Bolero: Playing jazz in America would serve as a great cover for someone in the witness protection program. A musician can labor at jazz for years and put together a nice body of work, but the music industry, the media, and the public may barely notice in their search for the next teenage ...
Now's The Time: BNY Mellon Gets Down With Jazz Musicians
In our current economic plight in the banking industry, BNY Mellon of New York, well, is doing some pretty cool things. In addition, to actively exploring Far East Exchanges and other activities to stay solvent and increase equity, this investment firms has a strong commitment to the arts. Throughout the year, BNY allocated funds for established ...
The Reluctant Lister: A Confession
At this time of year, those who write about music, books, plays, motion pictures, sporting events, chili cookoffs, hog-calling contests and—for all I know—goldfish breeding, are expected to compile lists of the year's best. I have been complicit in this questionable activity, but I've been trying to quit. In the case of jazz recordings, the notion ...
