Brubeck to Join Walk of Fame in Saratoga
Dave Brubeck played the Jazz Festival in Saratoga 13 different years, far more than anyone in its 35-year history The Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY, has hosted a world-class jazz festival since 1978. Invented by George Wein—an icon who invented the music festival, most famously the Newport Jazz Festival (though that only scratches ...
Clark Terry to be Inducted into Jazz Hall of Fame on Tuesday, June 4
Trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry, drummer Art Blakey and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton will be honored tomorrow with induction into Jazz at Lincoln Center's Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will take place at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, June 4 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, which is located within JALC's home, Frederick ...
Matt Glaser Wins Prestigious American String Teachers Association Award
The American String Teachers Association (ASTA) awarded Berklee's Matt Glaser the prestigious Artist Teacher Award at its annual convention, held this year in Providence, RI. Glaser is the first non-classical string teacher to win the award, which is considered the ASTA's highest honor. Past recipients include Joseph Szigeti, Pablo Casals, Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Dorothy DeLay, ...
Women Jazz Ensemble Composers Wanted!
The First Annual Jazz Ensemble Composition Contest for Women Composers is now open for submissions! This contest has been created to encourage the composition of the highest possible quality of jazz ensemble literature playable by high schools, honor bands, college bands and professional bands alike. The winning composition will be performed and recorded live by the ...
Kenny Dorham Gets a Plaque
More than a quarter-century after his death, Kenny Dorham is a beacon of encouragement shining across the landscape populated by young jazz musicians. In a generation of imitators, a few perceptive players have discovered Dorham’s lyricism, his magic with harmony, the wistfulness of his tone, and his articulation, which is like intimate speech. Dorham’s compositions increasingly ...
2013 British Jazz Awards Nominations Announced!
The nominations are in for the 2013 British Jazz Awards. An important feature of the British Jazz Calendar, the 27th edition of the awards will as always recognise some of the best talent that the jazz scene in this country has to offer. The only national awards to be decided by public vote, this year’s nominees ...
Anzic Records Artist Anat Cohen To Be Awarded The 2013 Paul Acket Award!
Anat Cohen To Be Awarded the 2013 Paul Acket Award at The North Sea Jazz Festival on July 12 Every year, the North Sea Jazz Festival hands out the Paul Acket Award to an artist deserving wider recognition for their extraordinary musicianship. The winner of the 2013 Paul Acket Award is Israeli clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen. Anat ...
Jazz Musician Wins International Religion Award
Chicago jazz musician Karl E. H. Seigfried wins International Weblog Award for “Best Religion Weblog” Chicago writer, musician and educator Karl E. H. Seigfried was named winner “Best Religion Weblog” in the thirteenth annual international Weblog Awards (2013.bloggi.es). The awards, announced March 24, cover thirty categories. It is the second consecutive win for Seigfried’s Norse Mythology ...
Grammy Award-Winner Danilo Perez, Unesco Artist for Peace, Signs to the International Yamaha Artist Roster
Pianist and Educator to Participate in Distance Learning Event at Berklee College of Music on April 4th, 2013. Yamaha Artist Services, Inc.(YASI) is pleased to announce the signing of GRAMMY Award-winner Danilo Pérez to its international Artist roster. “We are honored to welcome a pianist who is known not only as an exemplary performer, but also ...
Clark Terry Elected to Jazz Hall of Fame
Thanks in part to the enthusiastic support of hometown fans, trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry (pictured) will be one of three 2013 inductees into Jazz at Lincoln Center's Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame. JALC announced today that Terry, drummer Art Blakey, and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton got the majority of votes cast online during ...
Thomas Chapin Film Success At Kickstarter.com Nets $51,552 In 45-day Campaign
The Thomas Chapin Film Project will begin shooting this summer; filmmaker will complete her research and scripting, and lining up her film crew. EMMY-winning Filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo is celebrating a successful finish at Kickstarter.com, an online fundraising site, that will now allow her to begin planning her shoot this summer for NIGHT BIRD SONG, her ...
Jim Miller Honored as "Jazz Hero" on April 15th at LaRose Jazz Restaurant
Jim Miller—Philadelphia jazz percussionist, composer, recording artist, music journalist, and jazz educator—will be named a “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association on April 15th. The ceremony honoring this jazz icon will take place at LaRose Supper Club, 5531 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, during an evening’s performance by saxophonist Tony Williams, from 6 to 9 p.m. ...
NEC Contemporary Improvisation Student Daniel Pencer Receives 2013 South African Fleur Du Cap Theatre Award
Winner of “Best Original Music Composition” for the Play Mies Julie New England Conservatory Contemporary Improvisation master’s student Daniel Pencer and his brother Matthew Pencer have won a prestigious Fleur du Cap Theatre Award in the category of “Best Original Music Composition” for their music for the South African production of Mies Julie. The awards were ...
Farmers Market and Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus Win Norwegian Grammy Awards
Saturday evening at Vossa Jazz was an even greater cause for celebration than the performances to that point and still to come. Two of the festival's artists received news that they had been awarded Norwegian Grammy Awards: Multi-instrumentalist Stian Carstensen (accordion, guitar, pedal steel guitar, Kaval, banjo) and his longstanding group Farmers Market won in the ...
