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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 ...
The Indies Just Got 273 Grammy Nominations. but Will That Blend with Bieber?
Did you happen to catch the recently-broadcast “Life & Times of Justin Bieber"? It also went by another name—the “American Music Awards," does that now ring a bell? Sure, the teenagers stuck around, but the AMAs suffered its worst ratings performance in history. There was just too much Bieber, too many stale faces, and too many ...
Grammy Nominees, My Nominees: And the "Best" Keep Coming...
The CDs keep coming. I've heard a good binful of marvelous recordings released in 2010. Yet hardly any are in the running for a Grammy. Neither are the way-too-many promising titles (some already in the 4-5 star category in published reviews) that I really plan to listen to in coming weeks. That pile is much more ...
53rd Grammy Nominations Announced
Here are the nominations in the jazz categories, as well as some other categories which included jazz artists. The Grammy Awards show will take place February 13th, 2011 at 8 PM. 44. Best Contemporary Jazz Album For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks. The Stanley Clarke Band The ...
Herbie Hancock's "The Imagine Project" Nominated For Three Grammy Awards
HERBIE HANCOCK'S “THE IMAGINE PROJECT" NOMINATED FOR THREE GRAMMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST POP COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS, BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO AND BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCALIST(S) Critically-acclaimed CD The Imagine Project recorded across the globe features a message of peace through global cooperation and includes Hancock joined by Anoushka Shankar, Seal, Pink, John Legend, Juanes, Jeff ...
Benoit Delbecq Awarded Prestigious Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros for 2010 Songlines Releases Circles and Calligrams and The Sixth Jump
"Plenty of forward-thinking jazz pianists have been painted with a modern-classical brush, but few have approached improvisation armed with the manual vocabularies demanded by Cage, Ligeti and the like with the same diligence and flair as Parisian keyboardist Delbecq." —Time Out New York Acclaimed Paris-based pianist Benoît Delbecq has been awarded the Grand Prix de l'Académie ...
