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Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars Receive Two Grammy Nominations
Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars Receive Two Grammy Nominations For Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival" MJF Veterans Terence Blanchard And James Moody Nominated For Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Grammys Grammy Nominations Are Historic First For Monterey Jazz Festival Records MJF Commissioned Work, Appearing Nightly At The Black Orchid By Carla Bley Also Nominated ...
Sag Announces and the Real Race Can Now Begin
With this morning's announcement of the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, the real" race for Oscar can now begin in earnest. Critics awards are nice and we are getting a steady diet of them every day, but it's the guild awards that tend to be a real barometer of the temperature of the race. ...
Chris Brown Billboard Artist of the Year
The accolades keep coming for Chris Brown this time, he's been named Billboard's top artist of 2008. R&B enjoyed solo hits such as With You and Forever. Chris Brown won three awards at the American Music Awards in November, including artist of the year. It's bigger than what I can ever imagine. It's unexpected totally, ...
Clint Eastwood Nominated for Golden Globes Best Film Score
Clint Eastwood is riding high. Giving a first time screen writer a boost, in June green lighting Gran Torino, then beginning shooting in July. The film just released and this morning Eastwood was nominated for Best Song for the film as well as Best Original Score for his motion picture soundtrack the Changeling. The other nominations: ...
Springsteen, Gabriel Snag Golden Globes Noms
Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Miley Cyrus and Beyonce Knowles are among the music-related nominees for the 2009 Golden Globe awards. The ceremony will be broadcast live Jan. 11 on NBC. Springsteen was nominated in the best original song category for The Wrestler" from the feature film of the same name. Knowles got a nod as a ...
Berklee Alumni and Faculty Nominated for 29 Grammy Awards
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences nominated 22 Berklee alumni and one faculty member for a total of 29 Grammy Awards. The nominees were recognized for their outstanding contributions across the spectrum of fields, including pop, rock, rap, alternative, jazz, Latin, country, polka, producing, engineering, arranging, and composing. To date, 58 known Berklee alumni ...
Stephanie Jordan Sings for Oprah Winfrey and Friends of Susan Taylor
Susan L. Taylor, former editor-in-chief of Essence was honored on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 in a private celebration; Oprah Winfrey and Friends of Susan Taylor at New York City's ESPACE for her 37 years of service to the magazine which targets African-American women. The event featured a performance by New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan. Invited ...
Wu Fei's "A Distant Youth" Ranked 88th out of 913 on World Music Chart Europe 2008 Critics Pick!
Wu Fei's debut record A Distant Youth" (released in Oct. 2007, Forrest Hill Records) has been ranked 88th out of 913 nominees on World Music Chart Europe 2008 Critics Pick! A Full list of top 150 critics pick on World Music Chart Europe WMCE YEAR 2008 ...
Frank Macchia's "Landscapes" Nominated for 51st Grammy Awards
Frank Macchia's Landscapes received a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Instrumental Arrangement for his original interpretation of the classic song Down In The Valley." It's Macchia's second consecutive nomination; last year he was nominated for the song Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair." Listen to Down In The Valley" in its ...
Concord Music Group Garners 38 Grammy Nominations: Record Label Grabs an Astonishing 7% of Total Nominations
Beverly Hills, CA -- Concord Music Group, one of the worlds largest independent record companies, and its family of imprints including Concord Records, Hear Music, Concord Jazz, Fantasy, Stax, Telarc, Heads Up International and Peak, among many others, garnered 38 GRAMMY nominations. The label achieved an astounding 7% of the total number of GRAMMY nominations, marking ...


