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All About Jazz Announces 2025 Jazz Forward Award Winners—Honoring Innovation, Discovery, And Impact In Jazz
All About Jazz is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Jazz Forward Awards, recognizing outstanding individuals, organizations, and projects that are advancing jazz awareness, discovery, and culture in meaningful and innovative ways. Selected by a committee of industry visionaries, these honorees epitomize the forward thinking of jazz in 2025. 2025 Jazz Forward Award Winners ...
Made In New York Jazz Competition Announces 2024-2025 Winners
The Made In New York Jazz Competition today named the winners of its 2024-2025 season. Launched in 2013 as the first online jazz contest by the Made In New York Jazz brand, it drew entries from over 70 countries. Judges included legendary American jazz artists Mike Stern, Lenny White, and Randy Brecker. The voting committee members ...
Yuki Yamamura's First Leader Album Wins Silver Awards In Two Categories At The US Global Music Awards
Yuki Yamamura a jazz bassist based in New York, won two silver awards for his debut album as a leader, View of 124, at the Global Music Awards in the US, in the composer and group categories. The Global Music Awards is an international music awards program that recognizes outstanding artists, composers, producers, and performers in ...
Breakthrough Jazz Composition 'Escher’s Staircase' Wins Lennon Award
Junichiro Mataga Wins Lennon Award for “Escher’s Staircase" Jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Junichiro Mataga has won the Lennon Award in the Jazz category of the 2024 John Lennon Songwriting Contest with his original composition, “Escher’s Staircase." The piece, which had already garnered significant attention for its innovative approach and technical brilliance, now stands as the ...
Saxophonist/Composer Javon Jackson And Poet Nikki Giovanni Nominated For NAACP Image Award In 'Outstanding Jazz Album' Category
Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies, a collaboration between the groundbreaking poet and activist Nikki Giovanni and saxophonist/composer Javon Jackson, has been nominated for a 56th NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Jazz Album. Recognized as the nation’s preeminent multicultural awards show from an African American point of view, the NAACP Image Awards ...
New England Conservatory Alumni And Faculty Recognized In New York Times And Downbeat Magazine
Recordings by New England Conservatory alumni and faculty have been recognized in the New York Times’ Best Jazz Albums of 2024 and DownBeat magazine’s Best Albums of 2024, maintaining a longstanding presence among the world’s leading musicians. You Think This America by the trio Tarbaby, which includes drummer and NEC faculty member Nasheet Waits, was named ...
Ralph Hepola, John Stites Jazz Awards Winner
The winner of the John Stites Jazz Awards represents the epitome of artistic achievement in the world of jazz. Through their unparalleled talent, dedication, and creativity, past winners of the prestigious prize have earned their place among the genre’s leading performers, educators, and advocates. After months of anticipation, the winners of the prestigious John Stites Jazz ...
80+ New England Conservatory Alumni, Faculty Receive Grammy Nominations
More than 80 New England Conservatory alumni and faculty have been honored with 41 Grammy nominations, maintaining a longstanding presence among the world's leading musicians. NEC-affiliated artists have been nominated across 27 categories for this year’s Grammy Awards, with winners to be announced at the Los Angeles ceremony on Sunday, February 2, 2025. Lake Street Dive, ...
For Your Grammy Consideration: Guitar-virtuoso Roman Miroshnichenko Presents 'Almanac'
Prominent guitar virtuoso and producer Roman Miroshnichenko presents another record Almanac for the upcoming 67th Grammy Awards: a stunning acoustic and electric guitar fusion of flamenco-gypsy, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean folk and Latin rhythms with textures of jazz conception. “When one listens to the powerful guitar playing of Roman Miroschnichenko, it is easy to be reminded of ...
Lou Gramm: His Journey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Let's rewind to early spring 2024, just before the much anticipated Lou Gramm and his All-Star Band concert was about to begin. They were in Gramm's hometown of Rochester, New York preparing to present the very first show of his 2024 tour. The faithful had journeyed from the comfort of their homes to share a communal ...
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