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Trumpet Great Claudio Roditi's Love Letter to Brazil
In a unique two-day venture, trumpet/flugelhorn player Claudio Roditi has created Brazilliance x 4, a stunning tribute album to the land he loves, celebrating with colleagues that he’s known and worked with for many years, all of them fellow Brazilians. “How this came about,” Roditi states, “was we had a performance at [Resonance Records owner] George ...
Saxophonist John Zorn Headed West
As heard from one of the kindly clerks at Amoeba Records this weekend -- and confirmed on John Zorn's MySpace page (remember those?) on top of various blogs and message boards -- the ever-unpredictable saxophonist and downtown NYC fixture will venture out of the 212 and into the Pacific Time Zone for a run of shows ...
Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz
= 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 ...
Grammy Jazz Picks Stick to a Middle Octave
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 ...
The Grammys Turn up the Volume
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 ...
Grammy Full-Tilt Performances and Defiant Bravado
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 ...
Voices Newly Amplified by Grammy Nominations
With 1,117 nominees performers, songwriters, producers and more sprinkled over 110 categories, the Grammy Awards can be an unnavigable thicket. Here are some worthy discoveries that shouldnt be allowed to slip through the cracks. Luis Fonsi The Puerto Rican star Luis Fonsi, 30, has been famous for a decade, but now hes becoming interesting ...
Album of the Year Nominee Has Everything the Academy Loves ... but Will It Win?
Robert Plant And Alison Krauss Raising Sand Was Made For The Grammys If it were possible to create the perfect Grammy album, there's a good chance Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand could be it. Take two well-worn, respected veterans. Add one critically lauded producer. Throw in some sandpaper-and-velvet vocals and a baker's dozen of ...
2009 Grammy Awards Live!
Live-blogging the 2009 Grammy Awards 5:01 p.m.: Here we go, opening the 2009 with a Grammy preview of 2010. U2's performing “Get On Your Boots." How many noms are U2 up for? That's right, none. Radiohead, or even Coldplay, should have opened the show. Let one of the album of the year artists start the Grammys. ...
And the Winner Is... Grammy Faceoff '09
Did Weezy make the album of the year? Are the JoBros really the best new artists? Our A-list panel of singers, rappers and producers give you the lowdown on who's taking home a trophy on music's biggest night Grammy's Top 2009 Nominees: Lil Wayne, Coldplay, Radiohead, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and More Grammy predictions are ...
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