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Chick Corea & Gary Burton's "The New Crystal Silence" Earns Grammy Win for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

February 11, 2009

On Sunday, February 8th, Chick Corea and Gary Burton, who have played and recorded as a duo, off and on, for 37 years, brought home the Grammy award in the category of Best Jazz Instrumental Album for The New Crystal Silence. This marks Coreas 15th Grammy win, and the fourth Grammy award as a duet for ...

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Arturo O'Farrill Receives Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album

February 11, 2009

Arturo O'Farrill, director of the Purchase Latin Jazz Orchestra, received a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for Song for Chico performed by Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Zoho Music (2008). Woodrow Wilson in All About Jazz describes the album as a showcase for O'Farrill's skill as a leader and musician. He was ...

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Wanted: Environmental Auditors for Greener Festival Awards

February 10, 2009

WANTED: Environmental Auditors for the Greener Festival Awards Thirty-two music festivals around the world picked up the Greener Festival Award in 2008 for implementing sound environmental practices at their events and helping in the fight against climate change and waste. To receive the Award, each festival must submit a four page application form with details of ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival Records and Terence Blanchard Win Grammy

February 10, 2009

Monterey Jazz Festival Records Wins Grammy Terence Blanchards Win For Best Jazz Instrumental Solo From Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival Is Historic First For Label February 10, 2009 - The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce that Terence Blanchard, the Festivals 2007 Artist-In-Residence, has won his fourth Grammy, winning Best Jazz Instrumental Solo ...

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Hank Jones Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

February 10, 2009

The Recording Academy awarded HANK JONES with a Lifetime Achievement Award this past weekend at the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards. Hank Jones is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer who throughout his illustrious career has recorded more than 60 albums under his own name and countless others as a guest. His accessible playing style has ...

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Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz

February 9, 2009

= winner Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball ...

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Grammy Jazz Picks Stick to a Middle Octave

February 9, 2009

Chick Corea and Randy Brecker delivered skillfully, but they weren't the forward-looking choices. In the can't-please-everybody proposition that is the Grammy Awards, it's difficult to find much fault in the Recording Academy's choice to again honor piano great Chick Corea with a best jazz instrumental album award. Still, as close as Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton ...

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The Grammys Turn up the Volume

February 9, 2009

Yes, trophies are given out. But they are secondary to the celebration of music that was displayed. If the apocalypse is here, we might as well enjoy it. Stomp down the doors of your comfort zone. Hook up with unlikely new friends. Get noisy. Have a party before the flames consume us all. That seemed to ...

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Grammy Full-Tilt Performances and Defiant Bravado

February 9, 2009

At the Grammy Awards, the oldest songs win album of the year. Raising Sand, the duo album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with sparse, evocative versions of songs that date back as far as the 1950s, won awards in pop, country and contemporary folk categories before being named album of the year. It was one ...

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Early Grammys Honor Film, Latin Music

February 9, 2009

The soundtrack for “Juno" was the first winner at the 51st annual Grammy Awards, taking home the trophy for best compilation soundtrack. Meanwhile, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer won best score soundtrack for “The Dark Knight." The Grammy for best motion picture song went to “Down To Earth" from the Disney/Pixar film “Wall-E." Thomas Newman, ...