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Juno Award For Traditional Jazz Album Of The Year
The Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year was presented as recognition each year for the best traditional jazz album in Canada. It was first presented in 1994, after the Juno Awards split the former award for Juno Award for Best Jazz Album, Best Jazz Album into separate categories for traditional and Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year, contemporary jazz,"Quirky mix of nominees for 1994 Junos". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 9, 1994. and was discontinued after 2014, when the traditional and contemporary jazz categories were replaced with new categories for Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year – Solo, Jazz Album - Solo and Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year – Group, Jazz Album - Group. Winners Best Mainstream Jazz Album (1994 – 1999) Best Traditional Jazz Album – Instrumental (2000 – 2002) Traditional Jazz Album of the Year (2003 – 2014) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Juno Award For Traditional Jazz Album Of The Year Juno Awards, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies. The Juno Awards are often referred to as the Canadian equivalent of the Brit Awards in the United Kingdom or the Grammy Awards given in the United States. Members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), or a panel of experts, depending on the award, choose the award winners. However, sales figures are the sole basis for determining the winners of nine of the forty-two categories like Album of the Year or Artist of the Year. CARAS members determine the nominees for Single of the Year, Artist and Group of the Year. A judge vote by experts in the relevant genre, determines the nominees for the remaining categories. The names of the judges remain confidential. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenny Breau
Leonard Harold Breau (August 5, 1941 – August 12, 1984) was an American-Canadian guitarist. He blended many styles of music, including jazz, country, classical, and flamenco. Inspired by country guitarists like Chet Atkins, Breau used fingerstyle techniques not often used in jazz guitar. By using a seven-string guitar and approaching the guitar like a piano, he opened up possibilities for the instrument. Biography Early life Breau was born August 5, 1941, in Auburn, Maine, and moved with his family to Moncton, New Brunswick in 1948. His francophone parents, Harold Breau and Betty Cody, were professional country and western musicians who performed and recorded from the mid-1930s until the mid-1970s. From the mid to late 1940s they played summer engagements in southern New Brunswick, advertising their performances by playing free programs on radio station CKCW Moncton. Lenny began playing guitar at the age of eight. When he was twelve, he started a small band with friends, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestors (Renee Rosnes Album)
''Ancestors'' is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Renee Rosnes, which was released in 1996 by Blue Note Records. It won the 1997 Juno Award for Best Mainstream Jazz Album. Personnel * Renee Rosnes – piano * Chris Potter – tenor & soprano sax *Nicholas Payton – trumpet *Peter Washington – bass *Al Foster – drums *Don Alias Charles "Don" Alias (December 25, 1939 in New York City – March 28, 2006 in New York City) was an American jazz percussionist. Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums. He was, however, a capable drum kit performer: for e ... – percussion References {{Authority control 1996 albums Juno Award for Best Jazz Album albums Renee Rosnes albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno Awards Of 1997
The Juno Awards of 1997, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 9 March 1997 in Hamilton, Ontario at a ceremony in the Copps Coliseum. Jann Arden was host for the major ceremonies which were broadcast on CBC Television. Nominations were announced on 29 January 1997. Major winners were Celine Dion and The Tragically Hip. Nominees and winners Best Female Vocalist Winner: Celine Dion Other Nominees: * Deborah Cox * Lara Fabian * Amanda Marshall * Alannah Myles Best Male Vocalist Winner: Bryan Adams Other Nominees: * Paul Brandt * Corey Hart * John McDermott * Neil Young Best New Solo Artist Winner: Terri Clark Other Nominees: * Damhnait Doyle * Chantal Kreviazuk * Wendy Lands * Duane Steele Group of the Year Winner: The Tragically Hip Other Nominees: * 54-40 * I Mother Earth * Moist * Noir Silence Best New Group Winner: The Killjoys Other Nominees: * Limblifter * Pluto * Starkicker * Victor Songwriter of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeri Brown
Jeri Brown (born 1952 in Missouri) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and professor. Life and work Jeri Brown grew up in St. Louis, where she first appeared in public at age six. In Iowa, she studied classical singing, and later appeared in the Midwestern United States and Europe. After graduating, she lived in Cleveland, where she worked with the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. She performed in Ohio with the band of drummer and bandleader Bob McKee. As a consequence, she had collaborations with artists such as Ellis Marsalis, Billy Taylor and Dizzy Gillespie. Jeri Brown then worked mainly in the jazz scene of the Cleveland area, focused on jazz standard material, wrote lyrics and collaborated with composers such as Henry Butler, Kenny Wheeler, Greg Carter and Cyrus Chestnut. In 1991, Brown signed with the Canadian Justin Time label. She has been under contract with this label since her debut album ''Mirage'', where she was accompa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernal Fields
Vernal, the county seat and largest city in Uintah County is in northeastern Utah, approximately east of Salt Lake City and west of the Colorado border. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 9,089. The population has since grown to 10,370 as of the 2018 population estimate. History Vernal, unlike most Utah towns, was not settled by Mormon Settlers. Brigham Young sent a scouting party to the area Uintah Basin in 1861 and received word back the area was good for nothing but nomad purposes, hunting grounds for Indians, and "to hold the world together." That same year, President Abraham Lincoln set the area aside as the Uintah Indian Reservation, with Captain Pardon Dodds appointed Indian agent. Dodds later built the first cabin erected by a white man in the Uintah Basin around 1868. Settlers began to filter in after that, and built cabins in various spots on or near Ashley Creek. In 1879 many came close to perishing during the infamous "Hard Winter" of that same year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Jensen
Ingrid Jensen (born January 12, 1966) is a Canadian jazz trumpeter. Music career Jensen was born in North Vancouver and grew up in Nanaimo. She received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After graduating from Berklee, she toured with the Vienna Art Orchestra and taught at the Bruckner Conservatory in Austria when she was 25. She went back to the U.S. in 1994 and became a member of the DIVA Big Band. During the same year, her debut album ''Vernal Fields'' (Enja, 1994) appeared and won a Juno Award. Jensen has worked with Maria Schneider, Steve Wilson, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Bob Berg, Gary Bartz, Bill Stewart, Terri Lyne Carrington, Geoffrey Keezer, Billy Hart, George Garzone, Chris Connor, Victor Lewis, Clark Terry, Frank Wess, and Billy Taylor, as well as her sister Christine Jensen. She has performed on ''Saturday Night Live'' with the British soul singer Corrine Bailey Rae and in the horn section backing actor Denis Leary. Discography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno Awards Of 1996
The Juno Awards of 1996, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 10 March 1996 in Hamilton, Ontario at a ceremony in the Copps Coliseum. Anne Murray was the host for the ceremonies, which were broadcast on CBC Television. Quebec-based independent classical label Analekta Records boycotted the Junos after failing to receive a Juno nomination after attempts for five years. Analekta claimed its sales were twice that of CBC Records. Several record stores such as CD Plus, HMV, Sunrise and Music World also intended to boycott the Junos because competing music retailer Columbia House had signed on as a Juno advertiser. Nominations were announced 31 January 1996. Prominent nominees were Alanis Morissette and Shania Twain who had recent internationally successful albums who both won Grammy Awards on 28 February 1996. Alanis Morissette won in five Juno categories, becoming this year's major winner. Nominees and winners Levi's Entertainer o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton Journal
The ''Edmonton Journal'' is a daily newspaper in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the Postmedia Network. History The ''Journal'' was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old ''Edmonton Bulletin''. Within a week, the ''Journal'' took over another newspaper, ''The Edmonton Post'', and established an editorial policy supporting the Conservative Party of Canada (historical), Conservative Party against the ''Bulletins stance for the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party. In 1912, the ''Journal'' was sold to the William Southam, Southam family. It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired by Hollinger International. The ''Journal'' was subsequently sold to Canwest in 2000, and finally came under its current ownership, Postmedia Network Inc., in 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorne Lofsky
Lorne Lofsky (born May 10, 1954) is a Canadian jazz guitarist who was a member of the Oscar Peterson Quartet. Lofsky began playing rock music at school dances but later took an interest in jazz after hearing the album ''Kind of Blue'' by Miles Davis. In the 1970s, he attended York University in Toronto and studied music while working at clubs in Toronto. He worked with Canadian musicians Butch Watanabe and Jerry Toth and with visiting Americans Pepper Adams, Bob Brookmeyer, and Chet Baker. In 1980, Lofsky met Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson, who produced his first album, ''It Could Happen to You''. He toured with Peterson in the 1980s, and he toured and recorded as a member of Peterson's quartet and quintet in the 1990s. Lofsky has also worked with Ed Bickert, Ruby Braff, Rosemary Clooney, Kirk MacDonald, Rob McConnell, Tal Farlow, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Hartman, and Clark Terry. From 1983 to 1991 Lofsky played in a quartet with jazz guitarist Ed Bickert. This collaboration yi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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