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  Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From 1965 to 1966 it was awarded as Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Small Group or Soloist
In 1967 it was awarded as Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Group or Soloist with Group
From 1968 to 1971 it was awarded as Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist with Small Group
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Jazz_Instrumental_Album,_Individual_or_Group   (674 words)

  
 Grammy Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The awards are named for the trophy which the winner receives—a small gilded statuette of a gramophone, handcrafted by Billings Artworks.
Christopher Cross (Grammy Awards of 1981) is the only artist to receive the "Big Four" (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) in a single ceremony.
Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra - Primarily Not Jazz or for Dancing
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Awards   (1310 words)

  
 Vocal Jazz harmony groups music CD recordings
Although the group’s roots are firmly planted in the jazz genre, they are not afraid to demonstrate their versatility by performing in a variety of styles.
Group 7 sing modern a cappella, and the group members frequently utilize their voices to produce sounds that are unlike anything one would normally associate with the human voice: they are capable of sounding like drums, bass, guitar, brass - whatever the context calls for.
Group 7 was formed in in 1995, and their concert debut was a live performance on national television that year.
www.singers.com /jazz/vocaljazz.html   (4365 words)

  
 Welcome to Jazz On The River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The band was voted #1 Acoustic Jazz Group of the Year in the Down Beat Critics' Poll and Best Combo of the Year in the Bell Atlantic jazz Awards.
The Jazz Journalists Association gave its Live Performance of the Year Award and Best Small Ensemble Award to the Holland Quintet, and also gave Holland prizes as Bass Player of the Year (twice) and Musician of the Year.
The group has made its mark by insisting on being "a group" in an age of all-star projects, and by the time-honored route of going on the road and staying there.
rrfestivals.com /jazz/dave_holland.html   (1649 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Grammy Award
The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy, an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry, for outstanding achievements in musical recordings.
The Grammy voters tend to be elderly, musically conservative, and are heavily marketed to by record companies, who place great stock in some types of artists winning Grammys (accurately but cynically put as those which sell to "teenage girls and housewives").
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Grammy_Award   (425 words)

  
 ASCAP JaZcap Showcase 1st Edition
She began assembling a small but steadily growing repertoire of big band and orchestral music, influenced by the styles of Gil Evans, Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler as well as several classical pieces influenced by such composers as John Corigliano, Maurice Ravel and Bela Bartok.
He was among the five jazz students chosen for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) Clifford Brown-Stan Getz Fellows, part of the 125 ARTS Week finalists chosen from among 6500 applicants.
Remy was recognized in DownBeat Magazine student awards in 2003 and 2004 as winner and outstanding performer both individually and with his combo, Deuces Wild, for performance and for composition.
www.ascap.com /jazz/jazzcap/jazzcap1.html   (1582 words)

  
 Christian Tamburr
Christian is currently the leader of the critically acclaimed Christian Tamburr Quartet, a four-piece acoustic jazz group, as well as working with many other groups around the country such as the Grammy Award Winning Dazz Band.
Performing also at the 2000-'01 Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, his trio earned three judges' citations: "Outstanding Performance" from Tonight Show drummer Ed Shaugnessy and bassist John Clayton, Jr., and "Outstanding Soloist" from saxophonist Jimmy Heath.
Clinics vary from working with jazz big bands, small groups, and improvisation, to percussion technique for mallets in the concert or marching idiom.
www.christiantamburr.com /bio   (465 words)

  
 NHS Jazz Festival
Smith performed in the usual school band program and garage bands while in his teens, but also began to broaden his performing experience by playing in a professional Brockton concert band and even the big band at the local college, Bridgewater State.
Haines' music for large jazz ensembles is published at the University of Northern Colorado Press and has been broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Cooperation's national radio shows Jazz Beat and All the Best.
He has served as a clinician and as an adjudicator for large and small jazz ensembles at numerous high schools, colleges, and universities.
www.nhsjazz.com /festival.html   (2238 words)

  
 Miles Davis @ All About Jazz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Davis, meanwhile, had moved on to co-leading a band with pianist Tadd Dameron in 1949, and the group took him out of the country for an appearance at the Paris Jazz Festival in May. But the trumpeter's progress was impeded by an addiction to heroin that plagued him in the early '50s.
Davis surprised jazz fans when, on July 8, 1991, he joined an orchestra led by Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival to perform some of the arrangements written for him in the late 1950s by Gil Evans; he had never previously looked back at an aspect of his career.
At a time when jazz is inclining toward academia and repertory orchestras rather than moving forward, he is a reminder of the music's essential quality of boundless invention, using all available means.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/musician.php?id=6144   (2401 words)

  
 The Paramount Theater -- Pat Metheny Trio and Quartet to Jazz The Paramount
By the age of 15, he was working regularly with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, receiving valuable on-the-bandstand experience at an unusually young age.
At the time of this writing, he continues to be one of the brightest stars of the jazz community, dedicating time to both his own projects and those of emerging artists and established veterans alike, helping them to reach their audience as well as realizing their own artistic visions.
In addition, Sánchez juxtaposes classical structure with jazz improvisation in three of his original tunes as well as in a composition by Carlos Franzetti (arranger and conductor for all tracks on the album).
www.theparamount.net /theaternews_releases_20051101.aspx   (2754 words)

  
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(Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.)
www.cbn.com /entertainment/music/Grammy2005_winners.asp   (1618 words)

  
 Oregon Symphony News Releases
Doc's group is composed of The Tonight Show's best musicians -- Ed Shaughnessy on drums, John Bambridge on alto sax, Ernie Tack on bass trombone and Snooky Young on trumpet.
When not performing with this celebrated group or conducting a major orchestra, he is Principal Pops Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony.
He received a Grammy Award in 1987 for "Best Jazz instrumental Performance - Big Band" for his recording "Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Band," Volume I. Severinsen's accomplishments began in his hometown of Arlington, Oregon, population: 600.
www.orsymphony.org /news/0102/severinsen.html   (1126 words)

  
 The Cleveland Orchestra
Due to the blizzard which hit the east coast the weekend of 12/6, the artists for this Jazz on the Circle performance were stranded at the Newark Airport and unable to perform for us.
One of the most refreshingly innovative groups in Latin jazz today, the Caribbean Jazz Project never fails to surprise and delight listeners with their inspired melding of jazz and Latin music.
Whether putting a fresh Latin spin on jazz standards or bringing their compelling original compositions to life with distinctive artistry and virtuosity, the Caribbean Jazz Project has created a signature sound unlike any other group in Latin jazz.
www.clevelandorch.com /html/Performance/SeriesView.asp?SeriesID=291&SiteType=O   (499 words)

  
 RGJ.com: Complete list of Grammy Award winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal: "Restless," Alison Krauss and Union Station.
Jazz Instrumental Solo: "Why Was I Born?" Sonny Rollins.
Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: "Beyond the Sound Barrier," Wayne Shorter Quartet.
news.rgj.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060209/ENT/602090368/1056   (1170 words)

  
 JAM: August/September 2003 Issue: Folly Jazz News
For years, she has made regular trips to Cuba to research the music and to hear the nation's best jazz and folkloric musicians.
He is the youngest jazz artist to perform in the prestigious Oak Room at New York City's Algonquin Hotel, the same venue that introduced Harry Connick Jr., John Pizzarelli, Jane Monheit and Diana Krall to the city.
By 1965, he was one of the nation's most successful jazz pianists, topping the charts with "The In Crowd," "Hang On Sloopy" and "Wade In The Water." He has three Grammy Awards and seven gold records to his credit.
www.jazzkc.org /issues/2003-08/folly.html   (1151 words)

  
 Jazz News: TrombonesOnline.com to Feature John Fedchock's CDs and Catalogue of Etudes and Compositions & arrangements!
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.
As a solo artist, he appears throughout the United States and has toured abroad as a guest trombonist/composer/ conductor.
Fedchock is a Trombone Chair for the International Association of Jazz Educators' Resource Team, and has been a member of the board of advisors for the International Trombone Association.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=10502   (607 words)

  
 Brubeck Institute: Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony
He was a member of the Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco and the Generations in Jazz contra Costa County Honor band.
In 2004 he soloed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, was selected to the National GRAMMY High School Jazz Ensemble, and as a member of Toronto’s Humber Community Music School Jazz Combo, performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and the Atlantic Jazz festival in Nova Scotia.
He has performed and won outstanding performance awards in small group and big band categories at the 2003 and 2004 North Texas Jazz Festivals.
www.uop.edu /brubeck/programs/colony/brubeck_summer_jazz_colony_2004.asp   (1664 words)

  
 The Bill Evans Webpages: Grammies Æ
On March 1, 1994, Bill Evans was pothumously awarded The "Lifetime Achievement Award" by NARAS/ This award also went to singer Aretha Franklin and classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein that year.
In 1983, the Grammy for BEST ALBUM NOTES went to Orrin Keepnews, long-time friend and producer for Evans' Riverside albums, for THE "INTERPLAY" SESSIONS on Milestone Records.
The terms "NARA", "Grammy" and "Grammies" are registeredÆ® trademarks of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
www.billevanswebpages.com /grammies.html   (169 words)

  
 Terence Blanchard
On his first recording of predominantly original jazz works for small groups in nearly five years, Blanchard is joined by guest artists Branford Marsalis and Dave Holland.
Blanchard's first new "straight-ahead" jazz album since the release of Romantic Defiance in 1995, and his first new album for Sony Classical since the critically-hailed orchestral Jazz in Film, Wandering Moon was released Tuesday, February 15, 2000.
Blanchard's debut on Sony Classical was the critically-acclaimed Jazz in Film, the early 1999 project that celebrated the powerful encounters between jazz and classic movie scores such as Anatomy of a Murder (Duke Ellington), Chinatown (Jerry Goldsmith) and The Pawnbroker (Quincy Jones).
www.sonyclassical.com /artists/blanchard/adnews.html   (777 words)

  
 UNC College of Performing and Visual Arts: Jazz Studies
Best College Vocal Jazz Solo Performance in the United States or Canada
Best Vocal Jazz Solo Performance in the United States or Canada
Best College Vocal Jazz Small Group in the United States or Canada
www.arts.unco.edu /uncjazz/awards.html   (687 words)

  
 Grammy Award Winners Complete List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The awards given in 1964 were for recordings made in 1963.
Best Performance by an Orchestra (Not Jazz or For Dancing)
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Duo (without orchestral accompaniment)
members.tripod.com /~ItascaSW/grammys/1963.htm   (110 words)

  
 CONRAD HERWIG, TROMBONIST, COMPOSER, CLINICIAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
His most recent solo recordings on the CrissCross label are "Land of Shadow", "Hieroglyphica", "Unseen Universe", "Osteology", and "Heart of Darkness" which received 4 and 1/2 stars in DownBeat Magazine.
Herwig is a recipient of performance and teaching grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
One of the most in-demand jazz educators, Conrad Herwig is a Selmer clinician and performs exclusively on Bach Stradivarius trombones.
www.conradherwig.com /pages/895886   (606 words)

  
 Playbill Features: STAGESTRUCK by Peter Filichia: Grammy Grist
The Grammy community sure supports fl shows, for in addition to Raisin, The Wiz, and Misbehavin', winners have included Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Dreamgirls, and, in a bit of stretch for a category known as Best Cast Show Album, Lena Horne: The Woman and Her Music.
Other minor awards (should I have started the column with them and built up to the biggies?) include Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal, that's been won both for "Somewhere" on Streisand's Broadway Album in '86, and Cleo Laine's "No One Is Alone" in '88.
The Award was originally called Best Original Cast Album for Broadway or TV in '58, Best Broadway Show Album in '59, changed to Best Show Album (Original Cast) in '60, then Best Original Cast Show Album in '61.
www.playbill.com /features/article/65614.html   (913 words)

  
 DBJFDesc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In addition to his work as a performer and composer, Peixoto is also well respected for his work as a teacher and lecturer on Brazilian music.
Jovino was the recipient of a Golden Ear Award as the Best Jazz Instrumentalist of the Pacific Northwest in 2004.
Jazz radio station: Jazz 95.5; as well as producing and hosting her own radio show of World Music and Jazz.
www.jaynesanchez.com /DBJFDesc.html   (9362 words)

  
 U2 Dominates 48th Grammy Awards with Five Wins
The 48th Annual Grammy Awards were held on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
U2 (PRS) dominated the Grammys winning five awards, a high for the night.
U2 won for Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Rock Album.
www.ascap.com /eventsawards/awards/grammys/2006   (342 words)

  
 Complete list of Grammy Award winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Orchestral Performance: "Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls," Lorin Maazel, conductor; John Adams and Lawrence Rock, producers.
Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): "Previn: Violin Concerto `Anne-Sophie'/Bernstein: Serenade," Andre Previn, conductor; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin (Boston Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra).
Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: "Illuminations," McCoy Tyner with Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride and Lewis Nash.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/02/13/entertainment/e204308S52.DTL   (1101 words)

  
 2006 Grammy Award Winners -- The Complete List - Entertainment News
In my previous article, I ran through a summary of this year's 48th Grammy Awards show.
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal: Alison Krauss And Union Station - "Restless"
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Cons.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art40448.asp   (1676 words)

  
 GRAMMY.com - 48th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List
Category 38 - Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
Category 48 - Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
Category 55 - Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album
www.grammy.com /GRAMMY_Awards/Annual_Show/48_nominees.aspx   (4063 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Music - Complete list of Grammy Award winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
New York Daily News - Music - Complete list of Grammy Award winners
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www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/music/story/389821p-330726c.html   (1106 words)

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