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Additional Shows in L'astral Susie Arioli Receives the Oscar Peterson Award
The Susie Arioli concert, presented Saturday, July 4 at 6 p.m. as part of the En voix Rio Tinto Alcan series, will be the breakthrough concert for the popular jazz singer-with Thtre Maisonneuve in Place des Arts already sold out, and the Festival International de Jazz de Montral presenting her with the 2009 Oscar Peterson Award ...
ACE Honors Avid's Media Composer
Software nod amounts to unprecedented endoresement In an announcement that combines kudos to one company, a jab at another and a warning flare for producers, the American Cinema Editors board of directors is honoring Avid's Media Composer software with the org's first-ever ACE Technical Excellence Award. The nod amounts to an unprecedented endorsement of a commercial ...
Jim Widner Receives Award from Down Beat Magazine
Bassist, bandleader and educator Jim Widner (pictured), who directs the jazz studies program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is featured in the June edition of Down Beat magazine.The issue spotlights the mag's 32nd annual Student Music Awards, and Widner is one of just three recipients nationwide of an Achievement Award for jazz education. ...
Origin Records Wins 2009 JazzWeek Record Label of the Year
SEATTLE'S ORIGIN RECORDS NAMED JAZZWEEK'S 2009 “LABEL OF THE YEAR” JazzWeek Awards Ceremony, Rochester, NY, June 20, 2009 “...Origin and OA2 are putting out some of the finest jazz today." Linda Yohn - WEMU, Ypsilanti, MI “What can I say? The music ...
Mario Pavone Receives Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant
Mario Pavone, internationally respected bassist, Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc. board member, and Litchfield Jazz Camp teacher, has been awarded a 2009 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant. The grant is focused on commissioning new music and on ensemble development. He was one of a handful of recipients chosen from a pool of 161 applications. Since ...
A.J.'a Take On the J.J.A. Awards
Up to my ears in curricular and non-curricular matters since my return from New York, I may or may not get around to writing more about last week's Jazz Journalists Association awards afternoon. In the meantime, Arnold Jay Smith posted a lively summary on Ted Gioia's jazz.com blog. In his lead paragraph, he alludes to the ...
Bob Gluck Named Keyboard Magazine's "Unsigned Artist of the Month" for June 2009
Pianist Bob Gluck's 2007 recording Electric Brew is featured in the June 2009 issue of Keyboard magazine. Naming Gluck “Unsigned Artist of the Month," writer Michael Gallant wrote: “Composer Bob Gluck combines lithe piano playing with processed shofar (ram’s horn) and a wide variety of computer-sourced sonics to create an engaging tapestry of living sound... Electric ...
Jazz Journalists Association Names Arturo O'Farrill's "Song for Chico" Latin Album of the Year
Song for Chico (Zoho Records), Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra’s 2008 release that pays tribute to the pianist’s bandleader father, the late Chico O'Farrill, has been named Latin Album of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. The organization, an international collective of more than 400 writers, editors, photographers, broadcasters, filmmakers, educators and media ...
2009 JJA Jazz Awards Winners
Drumroll, please! And the winners of the 2009 Jazz Journalist Association (JJA) awards are... Top Honors 1. Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Lee Konitz 2. Musician of the Year Sonny Rollins 3. Composer of the Year Maria Schneider 4. Up and Coming Artist of the Year Esperanza ...
Origin Records Nominated for JazzWeek Label of the Year
Honored once before in 2007, Origin Records is again among 6 labels up for Jazz Label of the Year at the 7th annual JazzWeek Awards in Rochester, NY. JazzWeek, the definitive national jazz radio airplay chart, is also a forum for hundreds in the jazz industry from radio, press, record labels, distributors, along with artists. Nominees ...
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