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Fontana Artists Earn 30 Grammy Award Nominations

December 5, 2008

Fontana, the independent distribution arm of Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, has received 30 Grammy Award nominations, the most in company history. The announcement was made today by Ron Spaulding, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Fontana. The nominations were spread out among artists from Fontana's many partner record labels and ranged ...

Grammy Nominations Get Legit: Radiohead, MMJ, Daft Punk, Bela

December 5, 2008

Grammys Get Real with Nominations Radiohead After years of throwing hyper-saturated mainstream poop at the masses, it appears the Grammys have come around to some real dope sounds. In addition to fairly entertaining rockers Coldplay (who will probably win and received seven nominations in total), other artists up for Album of the Year include Radiohead (who ...

Brazilian Girls Nominated for a Grammy Award! | Brazilian Girls | News

December 5, 2008

Grammy Nominations 2009: Jazz

December 4, 2008

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 Adderley (Various ...

John McLaughlin's "Floating Point" Receives Grammy Nomination

December 4, 2008

(Los Angeles, CA) - The 51st Annual Grammy Awards Organization has announced that guitarist John McLaughlin's Floating Point (2008 Abstract Logix Records) has been nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Winners will be announced on February 8, 2009. Floating Point was recorded in India for Abstract Logix Records and MediaStarz. ...

Grammy Awards Blow Their Own Horn with Nomination Concert

December 4, 2008

The Grammy Museum will open downtown this weekend, but on Wednesday night the venerable awards brand was trying to prove it's no relic in this “American Idol" era. The nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday not at some early-morning news conference -- as they have been in the past -- but sprinkled ...

Grammy Reactions: Album, New Artist, Snubs and Surprises

December 4, 2008

The Times' pop music critic Ann Powers and Pop & Hiss' co-editor Todd Martens discuss the nominations for the 51st annual Grammy Awards. They were filmed outside the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles immediately following the announcements. Reaction: Soul and R&B dominate the best new artist category, with two exceptions: country-rock newcomers Lady Antebellum and ...

Ahmad Jamal's "It's Magic" is Record of the Year and Best Jazz of the Year

December 4, 2008

Jazz Legend Ahmad Jamal's Latest CD It's Magic is NPR's Best Jazz of the Year It's Magic is Jazzman Magazine's Record of the Year Ahmad Jamal on Tour in Continual Support of the Album New York, NY Preeminent jazz piano master Ahmad Jamal's latest CD, It's Magic was chosen today as one of the Best Jazz ...

Grammy Award Nominations Announced

December 3, 2008

Grammy Nominations Are Announced The British band Coldplay, which released “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends,” earned a total seven Grammy Award nominations. Lil Wayne, whose album “Tha Carter III” has been one of 2008’s great commercial success stories, received eight nominations, including Album of the Year, Best Rap Album and ...

To Quincy Jones, for Showing the Way ...

December 2, 2008

Harvard Gives Its First Annual Mentor Of The Year Award To A Man Whoes Worked With Everyone From Ray Charles To South Central Gang Members. On Jan. 25, Harvard University gave its first Mentor of the Year award to musician Quincy Jones, the multi-Grammy-winning producer, arranger and songwriter, who has worked with everyone from Count Basie ...