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  Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1965 it was awarded as Best Accompaniment Arrangement for Vocalist(s) or Instrumentalist(s)
From 1969 to 1978 and in 1981 it was awarded as Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
From 1982 to 1994 and from 1998 to 1999 it was awarded as Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Instrumental_Arrangement_Accompanying_Vocalist(s)   (762 words)

  
 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The award is presented to the arranger of the music.
From 1963 to 1981 the award was known as Best Instrumental Arrangement
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Instrumental_Arrangement   (530 words)

  
 Takacs Quartet, Dave Grusin, Glenn Miller | Grammy Awards | News Center | University of Colorado at Boulder | News ...
The University of Colorado at Boulder's Takács Quartet, alumni Dave Grusin and Glenn Miller were among the winners Feb. 23, 2003, at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards.
The quartet's recording of the Bartók cycle received the coveted Gramophone Award for 1998, and in 1999 it was nominated for a Grammy.
A Grammy is awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions.
www.colorado.edu /news/grammy   (480 words)

  
 Post, Mike   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He has won five Grammy awards for his theme songs and, by his own count, has scored over 2,000 hours of film.
The score sealed their reputations and won Post his first Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement in 1975.
It also impressed his peers and the critics and brought Post two more Grammys in 1981--one for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and one for Best Instrumental Composition.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/postmike/postmike.htm   (716 words)

  
 Corea.Concerto -- Chick Corea
Best Instrumental Arrangement, "Spain for Sextet and Orchestra"
This recording expertly unites some of the best aspects of the musical diversity of this century.
In his new arrangement, Corea uses the colors of the London Philharmonic Orchestra led by Steven Mercurio combined with the improvisational fire of Origin to bring the piece full circle.
www.sonyclassical.com /music/61799/home.html   (332 words)

  
 UArts : Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Fedchock is nominated in the "Best Instrumental Arrangement" category for his arrangement of Joe Henderson's classic "Caribbean Fire Dance," from his New York Big Band CD No Nonsense.
Martino is nominated for "Best Jazz Instrumental Solo" for his solo on the track "Africa", from his Blue Note Records CD titled Think Tank.
In 2001, Martino, was nominated for two Grammy awards - one for "Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Vocal or Group," for his Blue Note records release Live at Yoshi's, and the second in the category of "Best Jazz Instrumental Solo," for his guitar solo on the track "All Blues" from the same recording.
www.uarts.edu /news/dsp_item.cfm?id=390&item=pr   (593 words)

  
 CU-Boulder's Takács Quartet wins Grammy Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The group received the award for its recording of Beethoven's "Rasumovsky" Quartets, Op.59, and "The Harp" Quartet, Op.74, on the Decca Records label.
Grusin, an alumnus of the UCB College of Music who was awarded his bachelor's degree in 1956, also won a Grammy Award in the "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)" category for his arrangement of "Mean Old Man" on James Taylor's "October Road" album.
DIANE CONLIN OF classics and fine arts at CU-Boulder was awarded a grant of $30,000 by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation of Harvard University in support of her project, the excavation of the Villa of Maxentius in Rome.
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Sandoval was a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning group Irakere, whose explosive mixture of jazz, classical, rock and traditional Cuban music caused a sensation throughout the entertainment world.
Performs at the Grammy Awards as a special guest with Gloria Estefan, and continues to participate in the Grammy in the School program giving lectures and performing with the All American Band.
One for Best Mini Series or Made For TV Movie and one for Andy Garcia as Best Actor is same category.
www.shorefire.com /artists/asandoval/bio_asandoval.html   (2707 words)

  
 GRAMMY.com - 48th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
(Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.)
(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))
www.grammy.com /GRAMMY_Awards/Annual_Show/48_nominees.aspx   (4161 words)

  
 Music professor has shot at Grammy :: News :: University of Louisville -- dare to be great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Grammy Awards are presented for outstanding artistic and technical achievement by the Recording Academy, a professional organization for the recording industry.
Along with La Barbera, nominees in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category are the Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra, David Sanchez, the Maria Schneider Orchestra and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.
His younger brother Joe also received his first Grammy nomination for his composition “Bella Luce,” which is up for Best Instrumental Arrangement.
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 Both Sides Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The song was also nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
"A Case Of You" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accopanying A Vocalist.
Joni Mitchell is no stranger to jazz, as evidenced by her work with the legendary Charles Mingus toward the end of his life.
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 Lebo M : the official site :: awards & achievements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lebo and Hans Zimmer embrace after winning the Grammy for The Lion King.
Grammy Award for 'Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocals':
Best Vocal Performance - Male for Rhythm of the Pride Lands
www.lebom.com /awards.html   (91 words)

  
 Grammy Awards | University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado at Boulder's Takács Quartet and alumni Dave Grusin and Glenn Miller were among the winners Feb. 23 at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards.
Dave Grusin, an alumnus of the CU-Boulder College of Music who was awarded his bachelor's degree in 1956, also won a Grammy Award in the "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)" category for his arrangement of "Mean Old Man" on James Taylor's "October Road" album.
Glenn Miller, an alumnus of CU-Boulder and one of the most popular bandleaders of the 1940s swing era, also was posthumously honored at the Grammy Awards with a "Lifetime Achievement Award."
www.colorado.edu /NewsServices/grammy   (506 words)

  
 Festival Miami - Home
Through countless collaborations with the most prominent musicians of this century, along with his tireless mission to bring jazz to audiences around the world, he has graciously assumed the responsibility of being the international ambassador of American classical music.
His colleagues awarded him the 1998 Grammy Award for "Best Jazz Arrangement with a Vocalist." In 2005 Slide received his second Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Jazz Arrangement”.
He continued to develop the Slide Hampton Quartet and Quintet, toured the world with the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars, was a special advisor and arranger for the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and arranged numerous recording projects around the world, including the Grammy winning CD "The Joe Henderson Big Band.
www.music.miami.edu /FestivalMiami2005/Bios/SlideHampton.htm   (375 words)

  
 John Dickson: Composer
Recently he has provided music programming and arrangements for the Vin Diesel film xXx and has scored a number of features for the Sci Fi Channel including Nu Image's Alien Lockdown and the upcoming Larva for director Tim Cox, and Darklight for director Bill Platt.
In 1995 John began an incredibly rewarding association with jazz giant Chick Corea as an orchestrator and rehearsal assistant resulting in works for piano and string quartet and pieces for orchestra and jazz quintet/sextet.
The first of these, "Spain for Sextet and Orchestra" won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for 2000.
www.johndicksonmusic.com /Bio.html   (488 words)

  
 VH1.com : Miles Davis : Biography
Released in 1958, the album was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, intended to honor recordings made before the Grammy Awards were instituted in 1959.
It was another pop chart entry that earned 1963 Grammy nominations for both Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Soloist or Small Group and Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Large Group.
Aura, an album he had recorded in 1984, was released by Columbia in 1989 and brought him his fifth Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Soloist (on a Jazz Recording).
www.vh1.com /artists/az/davis_miles/bio.jhtml   (2188 words)

  
 Locus Online: 2004 News Archive
Best known as the translator of Robert A. Heinlein and Frank Herbert, he wrote numerous SF and YA novels in Japanese, and had one story, "The Legend of the Paper Spaceship", translated into English in 1978.
Ursa Major Awards final ballot, for Best Anthropomorphic Literature and Art from 2003, include nominees in categories for best novel, motion picture, TV series, game, etc. • The Awards will be presented at C-ACE in Ottawa, Ontario on June 4-6.
Awards presented at this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts included the William L. Crawford Award for best new fantasy novelist to K.J. Bishop, author of The Etched City, and the Distinguished Scholarship Award to Spanish translator and editor Marcial Souto • Previous Crawford and other IAFA awards winners
www.locusmag.com /2004/News/2004NewsArchive.html   (5428 words)

  
 National Initiatives: NEA Jazz Masters on Tour - Slide Hampton
Slide Hampton's countless collaborations with the most prominent musicians of jazz were acknowledged by the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Arrangement with a Vocalist.
Under his leadership the band is preparing their second CD which will be recorded in September of 2005 for the MCG Jazz Label.
Slide's arranging talents were acknowledged again when he received the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement.
arts.endow.gov /national/jazz/artists_tour/hampton.html   (620 words)

  
 ‘Academy Award’ to Baker; a Grammy for Meyer
Baker was one of four composers chosen to receive the national award, which recognizes outstanding artistic achievement.
The awards will be presented in May at the academy’s annual ceremony.
Meyer received a Grammy at the 44th annual Grammy Awards ceremony last month in the category of best instrumental arrangement for Claude Debussy’s “Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum” from Children’s Corner.
www.indiana.edu /~ocmhp/032902/text/grammy.html   (186 words)

  
 Marco's Audio List
DICEN QUE was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance.
RAPSODIA was nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.
"Canonn For Bela" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition.
www.sagaz.org /cd.html   (11007 words)

  
 Rock On The Net: Cyndi Lauper
Although Cyndi might be best known for her wild costumes and video antics of the 80s, she has shown that she wasn't just a fad of the 80s.
In addition to her Grammy, Cyndi won an American Music Awards for Favorite Female Pop/Rock Vocalist and Video.
The LP was also co-produced by Cyndi and received a Grammy nomination for the title track.
www.rockonthenet.com /artists-l/cyndilauper_main.htm   (1458 words)

  
 Greater Good Radio - Developing tomorrows leaders » MIKE POST - Owner of Mike Post Productions, Law and Order, ...
He has won five Grammy awards for his theme songs and, by his own count, has scored over 6,000 hours of television and film.
He was also a successful producer and arranger, winning a Grammy at age 22 for Best Instrumental Arrangement on Mason Williams’; “Classical Gas.”;
It also impressed his peers and the critics and brought Post two more Grammys in 1981–one for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and one for Best Instrumental Composition.
www.greatergoodradio.com /?p=84   (1173 words)

  
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Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist - 2001
Grammy Nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - 2001
Grammy Nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist - 2001
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 Trombone Page of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Fedchock still maintains a close association with the Herman orchestra, performing with the group on occasion and continuing to add his own compositions and arrangements to the band's library.
He is a clinician and soloist for KING Instruments and conducts seminars and workshops at colleges and universities across the country.
A strong advocate for arts in education, Fedchock is a visiting instructor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
www.trombone-usa.com /fedchock_john.htm   (740 words)

  
 Harry Connick Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Harry's sterling performance won the Grammy Award for "Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male" (with an additional nomination to Marc Shaiman for "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying A Vocal)." The Rolling Stone critics went on to name Harry "Best Jazz Act" in the magazine's 1989 Music Awards.
The orchestrations on WE ARE IN LOVE range from big band arrangements and numbers with strings, to one song with Harry singing, accompanied by bassist Ben Wolfe and saxophonist Branford Marsalis.
It was produced by Delfeayo Marsalis, and veteran bassist Ron Carter accompanied the ten instrumentals.
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 Niel DePonte - 2003 Grammy Award nominee for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra
Niel DePonte was one of 2003’s five Grammy Award nominees for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra for his recording of Oregon composer Tomas Svoboda’s
Peter Pan, which premiered in March, 2002, is his latest in a series of compositions, compilations and arrangements written for the ballet stage.
Many of these arrangements were commissioned and premiered by Oregon Ballet Theatre for whom he is their Music Director and Conductor.
www.nieldeponte.com   (609 words)

  
 KU JAZZ ENSEMBLE I TO PERFORM IN CONCERT AT LIED CENTER
Mendoza recently was recognized as best composer-arranger by the Swing Journal critics' poll in Japan.
His work on a recently released CD, recorded as a tribute to Brian Wilson, brought him his second Grammy Award nomination for best instrumental arrangement.
His television music has been nominated for an Emmy Award, and his music for the World Cup closing ceremonies was broadcast worldwide.
www.news.ku.edu /1998/98N/FebNews/Feb12/jazz.html   (780 words)

  
 Schell, Gussow, Schiffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Schell made her film debut in "Steibruch" in 1942, and her motion picture career took off when she was signed to a contract by filmmaker Alexander Korda in London.
In the 1950s, she starred in such Hollywood films as "The Brothers Karamazov" and won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for the German-language "The Last Bridge" and at Venice for the French-language "Gervaise."
In 1995, he added a Grammy Award for best instrumental arrangement for the song "Lament" on jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson's album "Tangence." Farnon also was nominated for Grammys in 1976 and 1992.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/people/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000904991   (543 words)

  
 Classical Gas Awards
Mason Williams with two of the three Grammys awarded his recording of "Classical Gas" at the 11th Annual Grammy Awards Dinner, March 1969.
In 1998 BMI presented Mason with a special Citation of Achievement in recognition of the great national and international popularity of Classical Gas.
It has logged over three million broadcast performances to become BMI's number one all time instrumental composition for air play, replacing the previous #1 tune, The Theme From Moulin Rouge, by Michele LeGrande, released in 1953.
www.classicalgas.com /awards.html   (151 words)

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