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Manfred Eicher Wins Downbeat Lifetime Achievement Award

April 4, 2010

ECM producer Manfred Eicher is the recipient of the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from venerable US jazz magazine DownBeat. The award was established in 1981, as a counterpart to the DownBeat Hall of Fame, “to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of the jazz pioneers, entrepreneurs and clarion callers who work tirelessly to connect jazz artists with ...

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JJA Jazz Awards: June 14, 2010, City Winery, NYC

April 3, 2010

The 14th annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards will be presented June 14 2010 at City Winery in New York City. Save the date! The afternoon gala will feature live music and a reception; the highlight of the event will be the announcement and presentation of awards for excellence in some forty categories of jazz music, ...

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Gene Ess is Honored by SESAC

April 2, 2010

New York: SESAC honored its affiliated composers in the jazz genre with the Sixth Annual Jazz Awards Luncheon. The event, held at New York's popular Red Eye Grill, honored the Top 10 jazz albums of 2009. SESAC executives Trevor Gale and Linda Lorence Critelli hosted the luncheon which drew an audience of some of the ...

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Favorite (Jazz) Spot in Massachusetts? Nominate Your Choice

March 31, 2010

Wally's Cafe Jazz Club in Boston's South End From Boston to the Berkshires, Cape Cod to the North Shore and everywhere in between, Massachusetts is filled with thousands of great places, and the state's tourism office--Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism--is narrowing them down to the Top 1,000. MOTT is seeking nominations for the ...

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Irvin Mayfield to be Sworn in as Newest Member of National Council on the Arts

March 24, 2010

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS LIVE WEBCAST OF ITS 169th NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS MEETING Jazz musician Irvin Mayfield to be sworn in as newest member of council Washington, D.C. - The National Council on the Arts, the advisory body of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), will meet in a public session ...

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Patti Smith to be Honored at 27th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards

March 23, 2010

Los Angeles / New York: ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) will honor rock icon Patti Smith at its 27th annual Pop Music Awards, taking place April 21, 2010 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. Smith will be presented with the prestigious ASCAP Founders Award and will perform with her ...

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'The Mountaintop,' 'Spring Awakening' Among Olivier Awards

March 23, 2010

This was the year that the Olivier Awards officially went global. Britain's highest theater honor -- its equivalent of the Tonys on Broadway -- launched the first webcast of its glittery award ceremony from London on Sunday evening. Technically, the live broadcast went smoothly, though the online picture quality was often murky due to ...

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'Mother' Tops Asian Film Awards

March 22, 2010

HONG KONG -- The spotlight shone bright on South Korea at the fourth Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong on Monday night, when director Bong Joon-ho led his countrymen in six wins with the best film award for his thriller “Mother." The story of a mother who struggles to save her son from a murder accusation, ...

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Barry to Take Soundtrack Award

March 20, 2010

BRUSSELS -- Composer John Barry is being honored with a lifetime achievement award from the World Soundtrack Academy. The four-time Oscar winner will receive the award on Oct. 21, during the Ghent Film Festival in Belgium. Ceremony will be followed by a performance of Barry's work by the Brussels Philharmonic. Program will include selections from “Goldfinger," ...

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Alex Chilton Honored by Congress

March 20, 2010

We like to think that music has been a continuous history of generational shifts. Kids don't like the same music that their parents do. Or do they? I've seen a lot of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd t-shirts on teenagers lately. And yesterday Alex Chilton, the ultimate outsider, was honored in Congress. It took his untimely ...