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  Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male was presented from 1981 to 1991.
In 1985 the award was combined with the award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female as the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.
The award returned to individual awards for men and women in 1986, until 1992 when it was again combined into one award.
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 The Pittsburgh Symphony and Mellon Jazz Welcome Diana Krall, Johnny Mathis and Manhattan Transfer to Heinz Hall
The first group to ever win Grammy Awards in both pop and jazz categories in the same year, The Manhattan Transfer has been delighting audiences with their distinctive jazz vocalizations for more than 30 years.
Multiple Grammy Award winners during the 1980s, the group made Grammy history in 1985 with their album "Vocalese," receiving 12 nominations, second-most nominated single album ever.
Awarded a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Krall moved on from Boston after two years and spent the next three years in Los Angeles.
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 Grammy Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
However, the Grammys, usually held in February, (last of what are considered the big three music awards shows, including the BMA and AMA shows) are considered the approximate equivalent to the Academy Award, in the music world.
Unlike the Academy Awards, for which the eligiblilty period begins January 1, the eligibility period for the Grammys begins October 1, which results in September being considered the Christmas sales period for the music industry (in which artists generally release big albums to qualify for the next years Grammy).
Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra
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 MSN Music - 2006 Grammy Awards
Female R&B Vocal Performance: "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey.
Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal: "Restless," Alison Krauss and Union Station.
Jazz Instrumental Solo: "Why Was I Born?" Sonny Rollins.
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 Vocal Jazz harmony groups music CD recordings
With their own arrangements of jazz from standards to be-bop with interesting, unexpected surprises, this award-winning vocal group is the coolest, newest sound in jazz.
With degrees ranging from vocal performance to music education to theory and composition, they have combined their talents to create a dynamic group that captivates audiences and finds itself in demand.
As solid performers and educators, they are able to present themselves and their art in a way that students can appreciate, understand, and learn.
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 Telarc International: Jazz -- Discover Jazz Midline Series
Telarc and Heads Up, leaders in recorded jazz, are launching a new midline series, Discover Jazz, aimed at reintroducing you to some of the finest jazz recordings of the past two decades.
Whether you're new to jazz or a seasoned listener of this rich and diverse genre, the Discover Jazz series is the place to hear some of the best jazz recordings ever made at affordable prices.
Benny Golson leads a talented team of players/composers, many of whom were members of the original Jazz Messengers at various times from the 50's through the 80's, in a tribute to one of the greatest players and leaders in all of jazz history, Art Blakey.
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 grammy award performance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
She won a Grammy award for best pop vocal album for "Breakway and another for best female pop vocal performance for "Since U Been Gone.".
He first won a Grammy Award for best pop male vocal performance in 2002 for his track "Your Body is a Wonderland.".
The song won the band a Grammy Award for "Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal" and was voted "Best New Song" by the People’s Choice Awards and...
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 GRAMMY.com - 48th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))
(Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.)
www.grammy.com /Grammy_Awards/Annual_Show/48_nominees.aspx   (4063 words)

  
 Harry Connick Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In the film, several songs are performed by various musical legends, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Ray Charles as well as Connick.
Other songs were performed as piano/vocal solos, or with Connick’s trio featuring Benjamin Jonah Wolfe on bass and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums.
In every case, Connick’s evocative vocals and engagingly quirky piano style lend credence to Downbeat’s comments on Harry Connick, Jr.: "Jazz musicians are beginning to talk about his talents, his clean clear touch, his ability to swing, and his fresh fiery approach."
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 Jazz Festival concert: Grammy Award winning singer Jack Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Grammy award winning singer Jack Jones and his trio perform with Edmonds Community College’s vocal jazz group, Soundsation as part of the college's 31st annual jazz festival.
Jazz singer Jones, the festival’s guest artist, counts some of those artists among his greatest influences.
Daytime performances by students during the festival 8 a.m.
www.edcc.edu /webinc/event.php?ID=1329&Date=2006-03-03&endDate=0000-00-00   (117 words)

  
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At age 5, Harry performs the National Anthem for his father's swearingin ceremony as the District Attorney of New Orleans.
Harry wins his very first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Male Performance for his work on the soundtrack to When Harry Met Sally.
Harry wins his second Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for his album We Are In Love, also performing the title track on the live Grammy telecast.
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 Elon Pendulum
The Dixie Chicks were awarded three Grammys and performed their cover of "Landslide" from the best country album, "Home." The Chicks also won best country instrumental song, "Lil’ Jack Slade," and "Long Time Gone" won as best country song by a group.
Accepting the award for best album with the Chicks was Natalie Maine’s father, who worked with the girls to produce the album with Sony.
Performances at the Grammys included those given by award winners No Doubt, Faith Hill, Nelly, Mayer, the Dixie Chicks, Springsteen and Jones.
org.elon.edu /pendulum/issues/2003/022703/A&E/Grammys.html   (492 words)

  
 John Legend's Busy Grammy Week
With 8 Grammy Nominations, Artist Will Perform With Stevie Wonder on Super Bowl Pre-Game Show Sunday, February 5 Legend to be Honored at 4th Annual AEC Artist Celebration Luncheon NEW YORK, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy week promises to keep multiple Grammy Award nominee John Legend busy.
The scope of John's Grammy nominations -- Song Of The Year, Best New Artist, Best R&B Song, Best R&B Album, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, Best Traditional R&B Performance, Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration -- illustrate the breathtaking range of this emerging superstar.
He is slated to perform at the half-time show at the NBA All-Star game in Houston on February 19, 2006.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-05-2006/0004274781&EDATE=   (349 words)

  
 Jazz News: Berklee Alums Earn 34 Grammy Award Nominations
John Mayer ’98 was nominated for two awards for the song “Daughters,” in the categories Song of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, in which he won an award in 2002.
Shore has won awards for each of the first two Lord of the Rings movies, and is nominated this time for his score of the final movie: Lord of the Rings-Return of the King.
With over a dozen performance and non-performance majors, a diverse and talented student body representing 70-plus countries, and a music industry “who's who” of alumni, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today — and tomorrow.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=4810   (781 words)

  
 Rock On The Net: Bobby McFerrin
for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance ("'Round Midnight" from the
("Don't Worry, Be Happy"), and Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance ("Brothers"), and was nominated for
for Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Male ("Scrapple From The Apple").
www.rockonthenet.com /artists-m/bobbymcferrin.htm   (150 words)

  
 ASCAP members lead Grammy Award nominations
Beyoncé shared Best Vocal RandB Performance by a Duo or Group for her collaboration with Luther Vandross on "The Closer I Get To You." Vandross also won Best Male RandB Vocal Performance and Best RandB Album for "Dance With My Father."
Cash won the prize for Best Short-Form Video for his single "Hurt," while his wife won Best Traditional Folk Album.
Former Beatle George Harrison won the award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
www.ascap.com /eventsawards/awards/grammy2004   (410 words)

  
 Jazz News :: Phil Tan Wins GRAMMY Award
Full Sail Real World Education proudly announced that Full Sail 1990 Recording Arts graduate, Phil Tan, was awarded a GRAMMY of his very own at the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards that aired live February 8, 2006 on CBS.
In addition to the Best Contemporary R&B Album win, he also received four other nominations including: one in the Album of the Year category for his mixing work on Carey's album, The Emancipation of Mimi, and one for Gwen Stefani's album, Love.
With 110 Full Sail Recording Arts graduates working on GRAMMY-nominated projects overall, and Phil earning a GRAMMY Award for his outstanding individual achievement, we could not be more proud of the staff, faculty, and student accomplishments that make honors like this possible.
home.nestor.minsk.by /jazz/news/2006/02/1002.html   (545 words)

  
 Ray Charles and 'Company' Top List of BMI Grammy Winners
She won three awards herself, two for her duet with Charles and one for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the song "Sunrise" from her sophomore release Feels Like Home.
BMI jazz artists also had a strong showing, winning Grammys in four out of six fields, with the Best Jazz Instrumental Album statuette going to McCoy Tyner, Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard and Christian McBride for Illuminations.
This is legendary country singer's second Grammy; she won in 1971 for her collaboration with Conway Twitty.
www.bmi.com /news/200502/20050214b.asp   (736 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Music / List of Grammy Award winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal: "Disorder in the House," Warren Zevon and Bruce Springsteen.
Classical Vocal Performance: "Schubert: Lieder With Orchestra," Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone and Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo soprano.
Beyonce Knowles holds the Grammy awards she won during the 46th Annual Grammy Awards.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/02/08/list_of_grammy_award_winners_1076303661   (1065 words)

  
 Harry Connick Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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.
From funk to stride, free jazz to boogie, it was all there.
In both the orchestral genre and with his piano trio, he serves up the same intensity and the same stylistic stroll through the history of jazz that his previous recordings have so excellently rendered.
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 1976 Grammy Awards
Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus
Blacks major winners at 37th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
Sabor hispano en los Grammy.(artistas y nominados hispanos en los Premios Grammy)(TT: Grammy's Latin flavour.)(TA: Hispanic performers,......
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 StarBulletin.com | News | /2006/02/09/
Producers Keoki Kahumoku, center, and Wayne Wong, right, accepted the Grammy award yesterday for best Hawaiian music album for "Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Volume 1" at the 48th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles as guitarist George Kahumoku, at left, looked on.
The award for a compilation goes to the producers rather than to the participating artists, but Ho and Wong brought many of the musicians -- George Kahumoku Jr., his son Keoki, Peter de Aquino and Garrett Probst -- to the podium during the pre-telecast ceremony at the Staples Center last night.
Producers Daniel Ho, left, and Wayne Wong, and performers George Kahumoku, Led Kaapana, Keoki Kahumoku, Peter de Aquino and Garrett Probst posed yesterday with the award for best Hawaiian music album at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
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 albawaba.com middle east news information::LONGINES ANNOUNCES HARRY CONNICK JR. AS NEW BRAND AMBASSADOR OF ELEGANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
As a result, Longines signed the jazz superstar and movie actor to become its newest icon of Elegance.
The album got Connick his first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Male Performance.
Connick continued to release jazz, vocal, and funk albums with sales of over 20 million, including three Grammy awards and nominations for Tony, Emmy, Oscar, Golden Globe and Cable Ace Awards.
www.albawaba.com /en/countries/UAE/190048   (357 words)

  
 Jazz | All About Jazz
Bennett’s relationship with Jazz is simultaneously tangential and deep.
Bennett struck the pop motherlode with this title track, which won three Grammy Awards (for Best Arrangement, Male Vocal Performance, and Record of the Year).
A truly deserving Album of the Year Grammy Award winner, this live-in-the-studio valentine sent from one pop generation with love to another includes a duet with Elvis Costello and an exquisitely sparkling “Moonglow” with k.
www.allaboutjazz.com /library/tbennett.htm   (641 words)

  
 Telarc International: Telarc Receives Eleven Grammy Nominations...
Cleveland-based Telarc International Corporation, in its twenty-third year as one of the world’s most distinguished independent recording companies, has been nominated for eleven Grammy Awards by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, for recordings released in 2000.
Winners will be announced at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony, to be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 21, 2001.
Other important awards have included the French Grand Prix du Disque and Diapason d’Or; Japan’s Record of the Year; and Germany’s Audiophile CD of the Year.
www.telarc.com /news/news.asp?nid=6&mscssid=9K8BFB1BAXQJ9G8WE8V5SAKLP92KEQT9   (273 words)

  
 The Beatles' Grammy and Academy Awards and Emmy Award Nominations
The Beatles' (and solo Beatles) Grammy Awards, Academy Awards and Emmy Award Nominations
The Recording Academy Hall of Fame Awards consists of early recordings considered of lasting, qualitative or historical significance.
(2/26/97) The Beatles won Grammys tonight for Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group, Best Music Video: Short Form, both for "Free As a Bird" (the song and video, respectively) and Best Music Video: Long Form, for "The Beatles Anthology" video set, all three categories they were nominated in.
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 Grammy Award Winners
The 47th Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2005 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The 46th Grammy Awards were held on the February 8, 2004.
Unlike many Grammy award ceremonies, which are often criticized for being staid and boring, the 1998 Grammys had several memorable moments.
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 1987 Grammy Awards
Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Best Gospel Performance By a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus
Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus
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