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Billie Holiday Statue Finally Gets Finishing Touches
Graphic panels in the base add elements of black history When Baltimore sculptor James Earl Reid created the city's first memorial to the stunningly gifted jazz singer Billie Holiday in 1985, something was missing. Gone were the panels containing references to the Jim Crow era and the lynching that Holiday so chillingly recounted in the ballad ...
Sinan Bakir Trio is Nominated for the Best Jazz Group
Hartford Advocate Grand Band Slam 2009. The official Grand Band Slam voting period is now open! Sinan Bakir Trio is nominated under best Jazz Group. Your vote helps determine the Grand Band Slam 2009 winners. To get started, please enter your name and email address below, and then click “begin voting" and fill out ...
With a Mix of Rock, Jazz and Blues, Reverend Zen Wins Artist of the Year at the Los Angeles Music Awards
By Rich Monetti Creating quality music takes time and patience - even if it doesn't always sound that way when we are inundated by commercial music played over and over on the radio. “I hear too much music that sounds like a first draft," said Jack Evans of Katonah, who recently won artist of the year ...
Amanda Tosoff Quartet Wins the 2009 General Motors Grand Jazz Award
The Galaxie Rising Star Award of the CBC goes to Vincent Gagnon Montreal -- The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal in collaboration with General Motors Canada--partner and presenter of the event for the 10th consecutive year--are today pleased to be awarding the General Motors Grand Jazz Award to Amanda Tosoff Quartet. The artist was deemed ...
Soloist Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Serenade in the Key of Glee
Steve Lopez takes Nathaniel Anthony Ayers to San Francisco, where he is honored for helping decrease the stigma of mental illness. He was so eager to make the trip, he called several times to make sure it hadn't been canceled. “Mr. Lopez, is the pickup still at 9 a.m?" “Yes, Mr. Ayers. I'll see you in ...
Neil Peart's Powerhouse Percussion Results in Third Consecutive Victory as Drummer of the Year in Enter Music Publishing's Drummies Awards
SAN JOSE, Calif., -- Neil Peart's lucky number may just be three. He can definitely play in three; he has been part of a highly successful trio, Rush; and, he has now garnered his third consecutive victory as “Drummer Of The Year” in this year's Drummies. Additionally, he won “Best Progressive Drummer. Enter Music Publishing, publishers ...
Ornette Coleman Winner of the Miles Davis Award
The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal this year offered the prestigious Miles Davis Award to the peerless free jazz titan Ornette Coleman. He was given the prize by Alain Simard, founder and president of the Festival. For over five decades, saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, 79, has played a major role in the evolution of ...
Toots and the Maytals, 6th Winners of the Antonio Carlos Jobim Award
Montreal - Reggae pioneers Toots & The Maytals were honoured by the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal with the awarding of the Antonio Carlos Jobim Award. The prize was presented to them by Laurent Saulnier, vice-president of programming of the Festival, on stage at their concert on Thursday night. Toots & The Maytals are the ...
Manfred Eicher and ECM Win Downbeat 2009 Award
Echoing the results of last year's poll, Manfred Eicher and ECM are voted Producer of the Year and Label of the Year in the 57th Annual DownBeat Critics Poll. This double-win is announced in the August issue of the venerable US jazz magazine (founded 1934). The awards arrive in ECM's 40th anniversary year. It was in ...
Eugene Register-Guard: Top Jazz Label Has Local Origins
From The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR): Although it’s based in Seattle, JazzWeek magazine’s “jazz label of the year” has Eugene’s fingerprints all over it. Origin Records bested Concord Records, Palmetto, Sunnyside, Heads Up and HighNote Records to take the prize in late June. The winner was announced at the JazzWeek Conference held during the Rochester Jazz Festival. ...
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