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Memphis Music Foundation Chairman of the Board, Al Bell, Recieves The 2011 GRAMMY® Trustees Award

Memphis Music Foundation Chairman of the Board honored with GRAMMY® Trustees Award


In 1965, a young radio disc jockey from Brinkley, Arkansas named
Alvertis Isbell joined a fledging record company in Memphis, Tennessee
to help promote the music it was churning out in an old converted movie
theater. Decades later, in 2009, he became the chairman of the board of
directors of the Memphis Music Foundation (MMF), the main organization
charged with promoting the city’s musical legacy, current artists, and
future plans. That small label was Stax Records and Alvertis Isbell
became known as Al Bell, one of the driving forces that helped change
music history forever.

Today, the Memphis Music Foundation and the Stax Museum of American
Soul Music, located at the original site of Stax Records, are proud to
congratulate Bell on receiving the highest honor the music industry
offers, the 2011 GRAMMY® Trustees Award, given by the Board of Trustees
of the Recording Academy. Bell now joins a pantheon of musical icons who
have received the prestigious honor, including The Beatles, Walt
Disney, George and Ira Gershwin, Berry Gordy, Duke Ellington and Stax
Records’ co-founder Estelle Axton. To continue, Please click “MORE”!

Talented Pianist Randell K. Announced as Nominee for “Jazz Artist Of The Year” in 2011 Los Angeles Music Awards

L.A. PIANIST-VOCALIST RANDELL K ANNOUNCED AS  NOMINEE IN “JAZZ ARTIST OF THE YEAR” CATEGORY FOR 2011 LOS ANGELES MUSIC AWARDS



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(LOS ANGELES) – Randell K., rising young pianist-vocalist in the Los Angeles music scene, has been nominated in the “Jazz Artist Of the Year”
category for the 2011 (21st Annual) Los Angeles Music Awards, it was
announced by LAMA Executive Producer, Al Bowman. The 21st Annual LA
Music Awards are again expected to take place at Paramount Theater on
the Paramount Studios Lot, with date tbd.

         

Randell K’s talents were acknowledged early on when he was one of the
youngest artists ever to perform live at the storied Catalina Bar &
Grill, as well as the Vine Street Bar & Grill, both in Hollywood,
Calif., sharing the stage with the likes of Manhattan Transfer and other
A-List acts. Randell K’s self-titled debut disc, released this past
year, was produced by Keg Johnson and William Zimmerman, whose past
credits include Will Smith, Levert, LL Cool J and The Spinners, to name a
few. To continue, Please click “MORE”!

New Christmas Single by Lisa McClowry Now Available on iTunes

The tender hearted sounds of Contemporary vocalist Lisa McClowry comes shining through the holiday glow with her new Christmas single, now made available on iTunes, called “It Wouldn’t Feel Like Christmas”. As you can see in the photograph shown above, Lisa was recently nominated for International Vocalist of the Year …

Blues Singer Eden Brent is Nominated for Album Of The Year @ 2011 Blues Music Awards

Blues Sensation Eden Brent Nominated For Album Of The Year, Koko Taylor And Pinetop Perkins Blues Music Awards



Boogie-woogie
pianist Eden Brent has been nominated for three 2011 Blues Music Awards
for her album ‘Ain’t Got No Troubles’ (Yellow Dog Records) in the
categories of Album of the Year, Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues
Female) and the Pinetop Perkins Award (Piano Player). Earlier this year,
the Mississippi native won her third Blues Music Award from the Blues
Foundation, for Piano Player of the Year. Online voting for the Blues
Music Awards here: http://blues.org/bluesmusicawards/vote.php. To continue, Please click “MORE”!

The 32nd Annual Blues Music Awards Announces Nominees

Blues Music Award Nominations

Nominations for the 32nd
Blues Music Awards, which will be held at the Cook Convention Center on
May 5th, were announced yesterday.

Leading the nominations are a
couple of the genre’s living legends: Chicago blues standard-bearer
Buddy Guy (pictured above)and Memphis bred harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite, who
scored five nominations each, including for Album of the Year (Guy’s
Living Proof and Musselwhite’s The Well) and Song of the Year. Guy is
also competing for the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award. Reigning
Entertainer of the Year winner Janiva Magness is close behind with four
nominations.

Dee Dee Bridgewater Receives Grammy Nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album | 2011

Dee Dee Bridgewater’s Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee 



Receives Grammy Nomination For “Best Jazz Vocal Album”


Los Angeles, CA.  Dee Dee Bridgewater’s stunning homage to Billie Holiday, Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959):  To Billie With Love From Dee Dee, has been nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award in the category of “Best Jazz Vocal Album.” The CD, released this past Spring on DDB Records/Emarcy/Universal, was Executive Produced by Bridgewater.  The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards will take place Sunday, February 13th, live from Los Angeles.

Over the course of a multifaceted career that has spanned four decades, Grammy and Tony Award-winning Jazz diva Dee Dee Bridgewater has risen to the top tier of today’s vocalists, putting her own unique spin on standards as well as taking intrepid leaps of faith in re-envisioning jazz classics. For her latest recording, Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee, Bridgewater honors an iconic jazz figure, Billie Holiday, who died tragically at the age of 44 a half-century ago. To continue, Please click “MORE”!

Hit-Making Songwriter Claude Kelly Receives Grammy® Nomination for Fantasia’s “Bittersweet”

HIT-MAKING SONGWRITER CLAUDE KELLY RECEIVES GRAMMY® AWARD NOMINATION FOR PENNING FANTASIA’S “BITTERSWEET”

December 2, 2010 (New York, NY) – Last night marked yet another milestone for hit-making songwriter Claude “Studio Beast” Kelly, who received his career-first GRAMMY® Award nomination in the Best R&B Song category for co-writing Fantasia’s “Bittersweet”
with Charles Harmon.  Known for penning numerous chart-topping hits
including Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You,” Miley
Cyrus’ “Party In The U.S.A.,” Britney Spears’ “Circus,” Jason Derulo’s
“In My Head,” and Ke$ha’s “Take It Off,” the Studio Beast’s work in 2010
with Fantasia has proved to be no different.  Together, he and Fantasia
are nominated for three awards (one and two, respectively).  The 53rd
Annual GRAMMY® Awards air live February 13, 2011 from Los Angeles, CA on
CBS. To Continue, Please click “MORE”!

Jazz Vocalist Gregory Porter Receives Grammy® Nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album

Gregory Porter’ s Debut, Water, Receives GRAMMY® Nomination as Best Jazz Vocal Album


A scant six months after the release of his debut album, Water, vocalist Gregory Porter has been nominated in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category of the 53rd Annual Grammy® Awards. Porter has received raves internationally for Water,
which cracked the JazzWeek  Top 10 radio chart shortly after its May
release, and which has been selling briskly in the US and Europe.  AllMusic.com
called Gregory “an absolute showstopper of personalized soul” and
Straight No Chaser declared, “Simply put, Gregory Porter may be our next
great jazz singer.” Porter continues to gain consistent praise as one
of the best male vocalists on the scene today, with comparisons to Joe
Williams, Nat King Cole and Donny Hathaway.  Water is also being singled
out on several “Best Of 2010” year-end lists.


For the recording of Water,
Porter tapped a powerful cadre of players, among them the iconic alto
sax player James Spaulding (Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, and Bobby
Hutcherson, et al,) who plays a featured role on two tracks: “Wisdom”
and “Black Nile.”  The CD was produced by saxophonist, pianist and
composer Kamau Kenyatta, and features seven stellar original
compositions by Porter that range in style from velvet jazz ballads to
the searing soul anthem “1960 What, which has been storming radio
airwaves.  To Continue, Please click “MORE”!

Columbia Records Artists & Recordings Garner 24 Grammy® Nominations | 2011

Columbia Records Artists & Recordings Garner 24 GRAMMY® Nominations In 20 Categories   John Legend Leads The Columbia Pack with Five Nominations NEW YORK, Dec. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Artists and recordings from the Columbia Records Group garnered 24 nominations in 20 GRAMMY® categories for recordings released during the GRAMMY® …