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Hadley Caliman, Origin Records and Kewu Pick Up JazzWeek Nominations
JazzWeek, the the definitive national jazz radio airplay charting organization, has released their nominees for their 2010 JazzWeek Awards and a number of Northwest organizations are represented. For the third year in a row Origin Records was nominated for Record Label of the Year along with Concord Records, HighNote/Savant, Mack Avenue, Posi-Tone and Resonance Records. Saxophonist ...
Jazz Arts Group of Columbus Awarded 2010-2011 NAMM Foundation Program Grant
Columbus, OH -- NAMM, the trade association of the international music products industry, announced that the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is one of 25 recipients worldwide to receive a NAMM Foundation Program Grant. The NAMM Foundation's 2010-2011 program grants will allocate $585,000 in funding to support innovative community-based music learning programs that allow more ...
Jazz Man: Kelly Roberti Honored with 2010 Montana Governor's Arts Award
From The BOZEMAN DAILY CHRONICLE: by Rachel Hergett As a child, Kelly Roberti pondered what instruments people played, assuming that the whole world was one big orchestra. “Obviously he plays the tuba," Roberti said of an imagined passerby. “That guy's a flute..." The son of a piano teacher and musical supervisor in public schools, Roberti never ...
JJA Jazz Awards: Do You Have Your June 14 Gala Ticket?
Tickets for the 14th annual JJA Jazz Awards gala, to be held June 14 at City Winery in New York City, are now available. Don't miss it: buy your tickets online today. Awards will be presented in more than 40 categories of excellence in jazz performance and documentation ; professional JJA members are now voting to ...
JJA Jazz Awards: Phoenix Area Satellite Party June 14
Are you a friend of jazz and live in the Phoenix area? Then you can follow the JJA Jazz Awards live and celebrate with other local jazz fans at a “satellite party"to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 14 simultaneously with the Jazz Awards ceremony and reception in New York City. The casual party starts ...
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2010 Philadelphia Music Project Grant Recipients
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2010 Philadelphia Music Project Grant Recipients Eighteen local music organizations receive over $1.1 million in funding Philadelphia, PA--The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced $1,141,900 in grants from the Philadelphia Music Project to 18 local music organizations. This years grantees represent a broad range of musical genres, ...
Britain's 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards - Winners Announced
The 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards--organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG) and sponsored by PPL, the organisation that licenses the use of recorded music in the UK--were announced in the Terrace Bar of the House of Commons on the evening of Wednesday May 19th. On one of the warmest evenings of the year ...
JJA Jazz Awards Go Bicoastal: June 14 Satellite Party in Berkeley
Are you a jazz fan in the San Francisco Bay Area? Then you can toast trumpeter-bandleader-educator Khalil Shaheen-- newly named “Jazz Hero, Bay Area" by the JJA-- as you watch the JJA Jazz Awards live and celebrate with local jazz journalists, musicians and other listeners at a “satellite party" at the Jazzschool for Music Study and ...
McCartney to Receive Gershwin Prize
The third Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song will be presented to Sir Paul McCartney at a special concert in the White House on June 2, it was announced by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on Monday. Sir Paul follows in the footsteps of past Gershwin honorees Paul Simon (2007) and Stevie Wonder ...
Composers Portman, Blanchard Top BMI Awards
Film composers Rachel Portman and Terence Blanchard took top honors at Wednesday night's Film and TV Music Awards ceremony held by Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) in Beverly Hills. Portman, the first woman to win an original-score Oscar ("Emma," 1996), became the first female to receive BMI's Richard Kirk Award in its 25-year history. The honor annually ...
