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Nicole is the only person or female, as of 2024, to have ever won Best Jazz Vocal album for a recording completely written and arranged by the artist herself. [ 18 ] In 2020, Broadway World nominated Zuraitis for five Cabaret Awards.
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] to recording artists for quality works (songs or albums) in the vocal jazz music genre.
During this time, she won Best Vocalist at the Essentially Ellington festival, a high school competition hosted by Jazz at Lincoln Center. [9] [6] She first encountered jazz in a meaningful way [10] when she enrolled in the jazz program at SUNY's Purchase College as a voice major, [11] [12] and was named an Ella Fitzgerald Scholar. [13]
Cassandra Wilson (born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. [1] She is one of the most successful female jazz singers and has been described by critic Gary Giddins [2] as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work.
Now Joy is following a 2024 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance with a sold-out festival kick-off event at this year’s Savannah Music Festival. Female jazz vocals and bygone-era standards are ...
John Zorn performing in 2006.. In the 2000s in jazz, there was a gradual decline in popularity for the smooth jazz subgenre which had flourished in the previous decade [1]. In the 2000s, a number of young musicians emerged, including the US band The Bad Plus, pianists Brad Mehldau, Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, trumpeters Roy Hargrove and ...
Jazzmeia Horn (born 1991) is an American jazz singer and songwriter. She won the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition in 2015. [1] Horn's repertoire includes jazz standards and covers of songs from other genres, including by artists such as Stevie Wonder.
April 14 – First day of Coachella 2023, a two weekend event, occurs.Jazz musicians in attendance are The Comet is Coming and Domi and JD Beck [4]; April 15 – After 8 years, British band GoGo Penguin's contract with Blue Note Records ends, and the band switches to XXIM Records, a record label more typically associated with neoclassical music and progressive electronic music.