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JJA Jazz Awards Go Bicoastal: June 14 Satellite Party in Berkeley

May 23, 2010

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 ...

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McCartney to Receive Gershwin Prize

May 24, 2010

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 ...

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Composers Portman, Blanchard Top BMI Awards

May 23, 2010

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 ...

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Jazz Icons Lambasts JJA, Calls DVD Nominee a Bootleg

May 19, 2010

“You should be ashamed of yourselves," producers of the Jazz Icons DVD series scolded the Jazz Journalists Association for naming Count Basie & His Orchestra: Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968 a Jazz Video of the Year finalist in the 2010 JJA Jazz Awards. In an open letter sent to a selection of jazz journalists ...

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I/O Jazz Awards

May 15, 2010

The nominees for the I/O Jazz Awards have been posted for voting on the Lucid website. Make sure and go online and vote. The I/O Jazz Awards will be held Monday, May 31 at Benaroya Halls S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium. Outstanding Vocalist: Alisha Roney, Greta Matassa, Emily McIntosh, Flora McGill, Bridgid Roney Outstanding Instrumentalist: Eric ...

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JJA Nominates Steve Wilson as 2009's Best Soprano Saxophone Player

May 15, 2010

Wilson Nominated by Jazz Journalists Association as 'Best Soprano Saxophone Player' Steve Wilson's recent headlining stand at the legendary Village Vanguard in New York City was documented by NPR and featured in a riveting 'Live at the Village Vanguard' Wilson previewed the appearance with a terrific interview about the state of jazz on WBGO's 'The Checkout' ...

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Dennis Owsley Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Kwmu

May 12, 2010

St. Louis jazz DJ, historian, photographer and author Dennis Owsley (pictured), who hosts the Jazz Unlimited program at 9:00 p.m. Sundays on KWMU (90.7 FM), last week received the 2010 Millard S. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award from the station.The award was created in 2006 “to honor individuals who, like Millard, serve public radio in ...

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Emmy Keeps Main Title Theme Music Award

May 12, 2010

A plan -- floated earlier this year by the executive committee of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' music branch -- to replace the award with one for original documentary scores, has been rejected by the branch membership. The vote was 85-36 in favor of keeping the award, which honors the best theme music for ...

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Tommy Castro Collects Four Blues Music Awards

May 10, 2010

Singer-guitarist Tommy Castro scooped up four Blues Music Awards at the non-profit Blues Foundation's annual ceremony, held in Memphis on Thursday. During the Cook Convention Center fete, journeyman Castro received the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award, and also took home honors for band of the year, best contemporary blues male artist and best contemporary ...

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Roxy Perry Inducted into Blues Hall of Fame

May 10, 2010

AWARD WINNING ARTIST ROXY PERRY BRINGS NEW HONORS TO WESTCHESTER AND NEW YORK STATE ROXY PERRY, award winning singer, songwriter, harmonica player, recording artist, and producer, known as ”NEW YORK BLUES QUEEN” for decades, has added to her list of credits with her recent induction into the BLUES HALL OF FAME as AMBASSADOR TO NEW YORK ...