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Pamela Hines Trio Debut's at #28 on the JazzWeek Radio Chart, in Her Second Week of Radio Promotion

January 16, 2008

Pamela Hines Trio debut's on the Jazzweek Chart at #28 and is on the most added list for Jazzweek two weeks in a row. Return, recorded in 2007 for a January of 2008 release, features Pamela Hines shining in her most stellar offering to date, a combination of well placed standards among the outstanding Hines compositions ...

Blue Note a Winner in the 2007 Down Beat Critics Poll

January 8, 2008

Blue Note was once again voted Jazz Label of the Year in the 2007 Down Beat Critics Poll! Take a look at all of our winners below! Down Beat Critics Poll Hall of Fame Andrew Hill Best Female Jazz Vocalist ...

Grammy Nominees from Verve Music Group

January 8, 2008

Blue Note Records Earns 10 Grammy Nods

January 7, 2008

BLUE NOTE RECORDS EARNS 10 NOMINATIONS IN THE 50TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS Blue Note Records earned 10 nominations in the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards for releases by artists including Terence Blanchard, Bill Charlap, Charles Tolliver, and Jeff Lorber. The nominations were announced this morning in Los Angeles, and the awards ceremony will ...

Roger Kellaway Receives "Le Prix Du Jazz Classique" Award for Best Record of the Year

December 29, 2007

IPO Recordings is pleased to announce that Roger Kellaway's “Heroes" CD has been awarded the “Best Record Of The Year" in the “Classic Jazz" category by the French Jazz Academy. The French Jazz Academy Awards is the oldest and most serious music awards ceremony in France (it was created in 1955 !) The college of voters ...

Berklee Alumni and Faculty Nominated for 24 Grammy Awards, Including Quincy Jones, Juan Luis Guerra, Diana Krall, Joe Lovano, and Tierney Sutton

December 19, 2007

The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences nominated twenty Berklee alumni and three faculty members for a total of 24 Grammy Awards. The nominees were recognized for their outstanding contributions in a variety of categories, including pop, rock, hip-hop, jazz, Latin jazz, new age, songwriting, arranging, and film scoring. To date, Berklee alumni have won ...

Maria Schneider Nominated for Two Grammys

December 16, 2007

Composer Maria Schneider & Her Acclaimed 2007 CD Sky Blue Nominated for Two Grammys, “Best Large Ensemble Album" and “Best Instrumental Composition" “5-Star Masterpiece - January 2008 DownBeat “For its marriage of precision and imagination, and the outright beauty of its broad-canvas compositions, the Maria Schneider Orchestra has no peer in the realm of ...

Six Degrees Records Receives Three Grammy Nominations

December 16, 2007

San Francisco based record label Six Degrees Records has received three GRAMMY nominations from The Recording Academy. Bebel Gilberto's Momento and CU's self-titled release both received nominations for “Best Contemporary World Music Album." Spanish Harlem Orchestra's United We Swing received a nomination for “Best Tropical Latin Album." This is major milestone for the 10-year old independent ...

Music's New Cinderella R&B / Soul Singer Ledisi Triumphs with Two Grammy Nods

December 14, 2007

New York, New York - In what will go down as the Cinderella story of the 2008 music award season, singer/songwriter Ledisi - an artist who struggled for 10 years earning accolades as an independent artist with her own record label - has made a triumphant leap into the mainstream with Grammy nominations in the highly ...

Frank Macchia Receives Grammy Nomination

December 12, 2007

Composer/Arranger/Saxophonist Frank Macchia has received a nomination in the category of Best Arrangement for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. The nomination is for the arrangement of the traditional folk song “Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" which was performed by The Prague Orchestra and Frank on tenor saxophone. You can hear the entire ...