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BMI Salutes America’s Jazz Masters
Jazz has been from its birth one of the essential elements of American music, and from the start, BMI has supported many of the most important composers in the field. learn more
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BMI and jazz - it’s a strong and long-standing association. BMI has supported the genre since it opened doors in 1940 and continued to represent the major composers of the genre to this day... read more
Jazz
Catching Up with Dafnis Prieto, Winner of MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
When jazz drummer-composer Dafnis Prieto answered his telephone’s ring one day in October 2011 to find the director of the MacArthur Foundation on the line — informing him he’d been awarded one of the creativity fostering organization’s prestigious fellowships — he was “shocked, elated, humbled and proud all at the same time.” Prieto was also justly rewarded. The tireless work of the 37-year-old native of Santa Clara,…
From MusicWorld, posted 2.06.12
Remembering Jean Banks: 1934-2012
Jean Banks, Senior Director of Jazz and Musical Theatre at BMI, passed away on February 2 in her Lower East Side home after a long battle with lung cancer. She was 77 years old. Jean got her first taste of show business when she worked as an executive secretary for the New York office of Seven-Arts Productions. After her stint at Seven Arts, she also worked for a time at…
From News, posted 2.02.12
Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden & More Saluted as NEA Jazz Masters Celebrates 30 Years
BMI partnered with the National Endowment for the Arts to host the annual luncheon toasting the 2012 class of NEA Jazz Masters on Tuesday, January 10. In a clear illustration of BMI’s storied commitment to jazz, all of the 2012 honorees are BMI creators: composer, drummer and keyboardist Jack DeJohnette; saxophonist Von Freeman; composer, bassist and educator Charlie Haden; and vocalist and educator Sheila Jordan; as well…
From News, posted 1.11.12
Remembering Jazz Great Bob Brookmeyer: 1930-2011
Bob Brookmeyer, noted jazz musician, composer, arranger, educator and co-founder of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, died on Thursday in New London, N.H., at the age of 81. The cause was a heart attack. Brookmeyer, a valve trombonist, played with groups led by the saxophonists Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan and the clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre in the 1950s, as well as a quintet with…
From News, posted 12.20.11
The BMI Holiday Countdown: Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Christmas Time is Here”
Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Christmas Time is Here” Composed by Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson In its original, exquisite, instrumental form, the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s “Christmas Time is Here” communicates with an emotional language that transcends words. What began as a groovy theme for a children’s classic has become a holiday staple known and loved by everyone,…
From News, posted 12.20.11
Pete Rugolo Dies
Rugulo’s Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated work combined elements of classical and jazz to create distinctly buoyant compositions and arrangements. He first gained attention as the lead arranger for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, one of the most successful big bands of the 40s and 50s, and is credited with forming the group’s sound, dubbed “progressive jazz.” Read Jon Burligame’s comprehensive Pete Rugolo tribute in Variety. Rugolo released his own acclaimed…
From News, posted 10.20.11
Dafnis Prieto Named MacArthur Fellow
BMI composer Dafnis Prieto has been named a MacArthur Fellow. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced 22 new Fellows for 2011, each of whom will receive $500,000 to further fund his or her pursuits. “I feel a lot of dreams getting closer to com[ing] true, to really materialize a lot of those dreams," Prieto told NPR, explaining that the award will allow…
From News, posted 10.06.11
Randy Klein Writes His Way, One Genre at a Time
Some people are know-it-alls. Randy Klein is a do-it-all — the kind of songwriter/composer whose sheer variety and volume of accomplishments could fill a résumé that would consume a redwood forest of paper. Klein’s latest musical theater work Flambé Dreams recently enjoyed a sold-out debut run in New York City. But the story of his career as a songwriter begins in 1977, when the Berklee College of…
From MusicWorld, posted 9.21.11
Aretha Franklin, Kris Bowers, Bobby Avey Honored by Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
As the Thelonious Monk Institute staged its 25th Anniversary International Jazz Piano Competition and All-Star Gala Concert, one thing became brilliantly clear: Jazz music is thriving in virtuosic hands. BMI composer-pianist Kris Bowers was named the first-place winner of the Jazz Piano Competition. Held Sunday, September 11 and Monday, September 12 in Washington, D.C., the contest drew 12 semifinalists from around the world, who…
From News, posted 9.13.11
For Greg Reitan, Home is Where the Art is
Pianist-composer Greg Reitan’s home was advertised as an “artist’s retreat” when he found it perched atop a hill like an eagle’s aerie overlooking Pasadena, California. But it’s become a redwood, glass and steel muse, providing the marvelously fluid keyboardist a comfortable space for composing music for his inspired jazz trio albums as well as television and films — and for recording. The new Daybreak is Reitan’s third…
From MusicWorld, posted 9.02.11
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