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Joe Johnson Wins 2009 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composer’s Competition
Bassist Joe Johnson was honored as the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composer’s Competition grand prize winner on Sunday, October 11 during the 22nd annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and all-star Gala Concert at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater in Washington, D.C. The Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary Gala Concert attracted a jaw-dropping collection of Blue Note Records recording artists, past and present,…
From News, posted 10.12.09
Stanley Clarke Stuns Listeners Again with ‘Jazz in the Garden’
In the jazz world, Stanley Clarke is a living legend and a bona fide hero for bass enthusiasts. Along with fellow bassists Ron Carter and the late Jaco Pastorius, he is responsible for bringing the instrument out of the background. “Anyone who's followed my career could easily see that I've sort of been kind of a bass revolutionary, for lack of a better word,”…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.11.09
BMI Jazz Greats Honored at Lincoln Center
BMI jazz greats Ron Carter, Sonny Rollins and the late Art Blakey will be inducted into the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame at an event held June 17 at Lincoln Center Carter, Rollins and Blakey join other BMI jazz legends inducted in previous years, including Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Billie…
From News, posted 6.17.08
Ron Carter Knows What Makes Jazz Work
Who better to delineate the delicate dance between composition and improvisation than a veteran of approximately 2,000 recording sessions? “They are fundamentally the same. Jazz composition is the floor that the carpet, which is improvisation, lays on top of, basically,” explains bassist Ron Carter. “It’s hard to say this and not have it sound so simple that anyone can do it because it’s pretty complex. “What jazz composers bring…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.05.06
BMI Fetes Congressman Conyers
Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Minority Member of the House Judiciary Committee and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, was the guest of honor at a recent fundraiser hosted by BMI at the Friar Club in New York City. Comedian Freddie Roman, BMI's…
From News, posted 5.04.06
BMI Backs Jazz Appreciation Month
by Steve Dollar Born with the century - the 20th century, that is - the most uniquely American of music forms is finally getting its own month, a full hundred years into a history as lively and complex as the nation that spawned it. April marks the first annual national Jazz Appreciation Month, a project launched by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, backed…
From News, posted 1.08.02
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