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Dee Dee Bridgewater Receives Grammy Nomination--Best Jazz Vocal Album
Los Angeles, California. 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 Grammy Award in the category of “Best Jazz Vocal Album." The CD, released this past Spring on DDB Records/Emarcy/Universal, was Executive Produced by Bridgewater. The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards ...
Motema's Gregory Porter and Oran Etkin Get Grammy Nods
Gregory Porter' s Debut, Water, Receives GRAMMY® Nomination as Best Jazz Vocal Album Clarinetist Oran Etkin's Track, “Unique Monique," Included on Album Nominated in Best Spoken Word Album for Children Category A scant six months after the release of his debut album, Water, Gregory Porter has been nominated in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category of ...
Bill King's eJazzNews.com Top Ten Jazz Recordings 2010
The Clayton Brothers—The New Song & Dance (artistShare) Jason Moran—'Ten' ( Blue Note) Billy Childs—Autumn: In Moving Pictures (artistShare) Charles Lloyd—Mirror (ECM) Tom Harrell—Prana Dance—(High Note) Steve Coleman & Five Elements—Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi Recordings) Rudresh Manhanthappa & Bunky Green—Apex (Pi) Stefano Bolliani—Stone in the Water (ECM) Trombone Shorty—Backatown (Verve Forecast) Terry Clarke—It's About Time ...
Best of 2010
It's that time again for being pestered about Top Jazz Albums of 2010 lists. I say “pestered" because it seems like a chore that doesn't accomplish much other than give a tip of the hat to SOME of the outstanding music of the past year. So much music comes out these days that it's impossible to ...
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Nominated For Best Contemporary Blues Album
Congratulations to the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, who last night received a GRAMMY nomination in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category for recent release, LIVE! In Chicago. The announcement also marks Roadrunner Records imprint, Loud & Proud Records, first GRAMMY nomination. This is Kenny's 5th GRAMMY nomination. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd band is honored to be ...
Lorraine Feather's "Ages" CD on Jazzed Media Nominated for 2011 Grammy
Jazzed Media is pleased to announce the 2011 Grammy Nomination of Lorraine Feather's Ages CD for Best Jazz Vocal Album. This is the third Grammy nomination for the Jazzed Media label. Lorraine Feather is a lyricist/singer whose latest Jazzed Media release, Ages, the follow-up to Feather's acclaimed 2008 release Language, debuted on February 9, 2010. The ...
Grammy Nominees on the Jazz Session
Several artists who've appeared on The Jazz Session were nominated for Grammy awards this year. Congratulations to all the nominees. Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group Vijay Iyer for Historicity (Listen to the interview) Danilo Perez for Providencia (Listen to the interview) Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Darcy James Argue for Infernal Machines (Listen to ...
Indie Artists and Labels Grab 50% of Grammy Nominations
Independent music labels and artists received 273 of the 542 or just over 50% of the nominations for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, according to indie trade group A2IM. Independent releases are nominated in 88 of the 108 Grammy categories including top categories Album of the Year (The Suburbs on Merge) and Best New Artist (Mumford ...
Grammy Nominees Announced
in Seattle Jazz—(0) comments 45. Best Jazz Vocal Album Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee Dee Dee Bridgewater [Emarcy] Freddy Cole Sings Mr. B Freddy Cole [HighNote Records] When Lights Are Low Denise Donatelli [Savant Records] Ages Lorraine Feather [Jazzed ...
The One Grammy Nomination That Caught Our Eye
The nominees for the 53rd Grammy Awards were announced today, and as usual, people made fun of them. They made fun of them on Twitter, they made fun of them on blogs, they made fun of them in bars and everywhere else people mock stuff. And just like in years past, the stalest, most commonly deployed ...
