Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2021 Jazz Awards Winners
Ron Carter and Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.by BWW News Desk
Master musician and educator Ron Carter, often credited as jazz s most recorded bassist, and author Kevin Whitehead, long-running jazz critic on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, announced today.
As trending in the greater jazz community, creative women earned significant recognition: Composer-orchestra leader Maria Schneider, whose album Data Lords (ArtistShare) is Record of the Year, and drummer-producer educator Terri Lyne Carrington, Jazz Musician of the Year, won multiple awards. Women prevailed in several other instrumentalists categories, too.
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Aberdeen Jazz Festival to return later this month – virtually
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The online festival will take place later this month. Pictures: Colin Black
Tickets have gone on sale for a popular north-east musical event, which will return this month with a new virtual format.
The Aberdeen Jazz Festival will stream a number of pre-recorded performances from Thursday March 25 to Sunday March 28.
Four concerts have already been recorded at The Blue Lamp, with one more being recorded in New York.
Neil Gibbons, the festival’s artistic director, said: “The ones at The Blue Lamp have been recorded in a way so it’s as close to a live gig as it can be.