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Trombonist/Composer Phil Ranelin selected "best jazz artist" by LA Weekly Music Awards

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PHIL RANELIN RECEIVES BEST JAZZ ARTIST AWARD

Master trombonist/composer, Phil Ranelin, was selected by the LA Weekly as the 2005 “Best Jazz Artist” as part of the Annual LA Weekly Music Awards!!!

This local recognition of Ranelin comes in the wake of his year-long artist-in-residency at Westminster Presbyterian Church where he presented a concert in tribute to Hampton Hawes, honoring Hampton Hawes Day in Los Angeles (November 13th “henceforth”) and four Jazz Appreciation Workshops in Councilman Martin Ludlow’s 10th District. As Ranelin explains, “the workshops were designed to develop “Jazz Literacy in the Community. I wanted the neighborhoods where Eric Dolphy, Hampton Hawes, Melba Liston and Dexter Gordon grew up to know who they were and to understand the greatness of their musical legacies and their international acclaim.

Ranelin is not new is raising up Los Angeles Jazz legends. His two-year collaboration with Councilman Bernard Parks and Build Crenshaw Arts resulted is the successful naming of a five million dollar building after Eric Dolphy at Denker Recreation Center in Dolphy’s childhood neighborhood and in the designation of June 20th as Eric Dolphy Day throughout the City and County of Los Angeles and throughout the State of California “henceforth”! “It is an honor to be a part of a community struggle to recognize and honor a musician like Eric Dolphy who accomplished so much in his short life and who is an excellent role model for the children who currently attend the same schools he graduated from, like 36th Street Elementary, Foshay Junior High and Dorsey High School.”

Dolphy is also honored on Ranelin’s new CD, INSPIRATION which consists of all original compositions and arrangements honoring some of the Jazz artists who have inspired Ranelin such as Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Tapscott, J.J. Johnson and John Coltrane. For more details on Phil Ranelin’s career which justifies such recognition, visit the following websites: www.widehive.com; www.heftyrecords.com; and www.ranelin.com.



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