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Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22, 1937) is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga (1990–1992) and Mulholland Drive. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2008.
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B. B. King
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Ben Harper
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents. His albums have been commercially successful in North America, Europe and Australia. Harper is a two-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005.
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Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American rhythm and blues musician from Houston, Texas raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy Award-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Band, Nat King Cole, Little Richard, Eric Burdon, Ray Charles, George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, King Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Mick Jagger, Richie Sambora, Sly Stone, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ringo Starr. He played the Fender Rhodes electric piano and the Hammond organ on the Get Back sessions in 1969.
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Bob James (musician)
Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is a jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist, arranger and producer.
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Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque.
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Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He first found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly revival group The Stray Cats, and revitalized his career in the late 1990s with a jazz-oriented big band.
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Rolling Stone named Santana number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
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Chuck Mangione
Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione (; born November 29, 1940) is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.cite web|url=http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=11:gifexqy5ld6e~T2|title=Chuck Mangione
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David Sanborn
David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B.; He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school.
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Earl Klugh
Earl Klugh (pronounced "Clue") (born September 16, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American smooth jazz/crossover jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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Ernie Watts
Ernest James "Ernie" Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone (tenor, alto and soprano) and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist. He has also toured with The Rolling Stones, joining them on their 1981 tour and also appearing with them in the 1982 film ''Let's Spend the Night Together''.
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Eumir Deodato
Eumir Deodato (full name Eumir Deodato de Almeida, 22 June 1943, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian musician, record producer and arranger, primarily based in the jazz realm but who historically has been known for eclectic melding of big band and combo jazz with varied elements of rock/pop, R&B;/funk, Brazilian/Latin, and symphonic or orchestral music.
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George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a multi Grammy Award winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B;, and scat singer. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin'. He was also a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt.
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George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism, and helped broaden the horizons of the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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Harold Faltermeyer
Harold Faltermeyer (born Harald Faltermeier; October 5, 1952) is a German musician, keyboardist, composer and record producer.
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Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme from the television series, and back-to-back Academy Awards for the songs "Moon River" from the Blake Edwards film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's and "Days of Wine and Roses" from the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses''.
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Herb Alpert
Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, '''Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or TJB'''. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M; Records (a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold).
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Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer () (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, today the Czech Republic) is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He is probably best known for playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 70s, as well as his "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s US television program, Miami Vice.
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Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He is one of the three noted guitarists, along with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, to have played with The Yardbirds. Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group, and Beck, Bogert & Appice, besides his successful solo career.
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is a prolific American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning six decades, he has composed many of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including those for Jaws, the Star Wars Saga, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, ''Schindler's List, Home Alone, and three Harry Potter'' films. He has composed the music for all but two of director Steven Spielberg's feature films.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton (born Lawrence Eugene Carlton, March 2, 1948, Torrance, California) is an American jazz, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, pop, and rock guitarist and singer. He has divided his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands. Over his career, Carlton has won three Grammy Awards for his performances and compositions, including the theme music for the hit television series, Hill Street Blues
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Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009)—known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible". He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was certainly not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects, and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony (known as an EGOT) plus a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won two Golden Globes.
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Mason Williams
Mason Williams (born August 24, 1938) is an American guitarist and composer, best known for his guitar instrumental "Classical Gas". He is also a comedy writer, known for his writing on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and Saturday Night Live. He is also an eclectic poet and lyricist, who has published several books.
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Michael Kamen
Michael Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.
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Mike Post
Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil on September 29, 1944) is a Grammy and Emmy award-winning composer of music best known for his scoring of numerous TV theme songs in the United States. He was born in Berkeley, California.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold over 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
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Ray Parker Jr.
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Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born ) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.
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Chicago
Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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LA Live
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Nashville
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Ridgway, Colorado
The Town of Ridgway, coined Gateway to the San Juans, is a Home Rule Municipality in Ouray County, in the southwestern portion of the U.S. State of Colorado. The town is a former railroad stop on the Uncompaghre River in the northern San Juan Mountains. The town population was 713 at the 2000 census.
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Tennessee
Tennessee () is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,214,888, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 626,144. Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 670,902. Nashville has the state's largest metropolitan area, at 1,521,437 people.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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- Angelo Badalamenti
- Auld Lang Syne
- B. B. King
- Ben Harper
- Billy Preston
- Blood, Sweat & Tears
- Bob James (musician)
- Branford Marsalis
- Brian Setzer
- Bruce Hornsby
- Béla Fleck
- Carlos Santana
- Chariots of Fire
- Chuck Mangione
- Classical Gas
- David Sanborn
- Eagles (band)
- Earl Klugh
- Eric Clapton
- Ernie Watts
- Eumir Deodato
- George Benson
- George Harrison
- Ghostbusters
- Grammy Award
- Harold Faltermeyer
- Henry Mancini
- Herb Alpert
- Hill Street Blues
- Jan Hammer
- Jeff Beck
- John Williams
- Joni Mitchell
- Larry Carlton
- Les Paul
- Los Lobos
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Mason Williams
- Miami Vice Theme
- Michael Kamen
- Mike Post
- Quincy Jones
- Ray Parker Jr.
- Sarah McLachlan
- Steve Stevens
- The Hustle (song)
- The Neville Brothers
- Top Gun Anthem
- Twin Peaks
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Mick Jagger Best Performance 2011 Grammy Recap / Review
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2011 Grammy Awards recap / review The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards took place sunday February 13 2011 Many were nominated but few won 2011 Grammy Awards had some good performances The music industry elite were in attendance And the winners are: Record of the year: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Album of the year: "The Suburbs" - Arcade Fire Song of the year: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Best new artist: Esperanza Spalding Pop performance by a duo or group with vocals: "Hey, Soul Sister" (Live) - Train Pop vocal album: "The Fame Monster" - Lady Gaga Rock album: "The Resistance" - Muse Rap album: "Recovery" - Eminem Female country vocal performance: Miranda Lambert, "The House That Built Me" Country album: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Producer of the year, non-classical: Danger Mouse Female pop vocal performance: "Bad Romance" -- Lady Gaga Male pop vocal performance: "Just The Way You Are" -- Bruno Mars Pop collaboration with vocals: "Imagine" -- Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare Pop instrumental performance: "Nessun Dorma" -- Jeff Beck Pop instrumental album: "Take Your Pick" -- Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto Dance recording: "Only Girl (In The World)" -- Rihanna Electronic/dance album: "La Roux" -- La Roux Traditional pop vocal album: "Crazy Love" -- Michael Bublé Solo rock vocal performance: "Helter Skelter" -- Paul McCartney Rock performance by a duo or group with vocals: "Tighten Up" -- The Black Keys Hard rock <b>...</b>
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Grammy Noms 2010: Maxwell
Maxwell talks to TV Guide about his 6 nominations for the 2010 Grammys. He's nominated for Song of the Year for 'Pretty Wings,' Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for 'Love You' and Best Pop Instrumental Performance for 'Phoenix Rise.' Plus, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song for 'Pretty Wings' and Best R&B Album 'Black Summer's Night.' He's been out of the loop for 8 years and now he's back with a vengeance. His comeback comes with a great appreciation.
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Enya, Roma & Nicky Ryan (Oisin)
Thanks for your music *AWARDS: GRAMMY Awards: 1993 - Best New Age Album (Shepherd Moons) 1997 - Best New Age Album (The Memory of Trees) 2000 - Best New Age Album (A Day Without Rain) 2006 - Best New Age Album (Amarantine) IRMA Awards: 1989 - Best Female Irish Artist 1993 - Best Female Irish Artist Enya World Music Awards: 2001 - Best Solo Irish Artist 2001 - Best New Age Artist 2002 - Best-selling Female Artist 2002 - Best-selling New Age Artist 2002 - Best-selling Irish artist 2006 - Best-selling Irish artist Japanese Grand Prix Awards: Album of the Year (Paint The Sky With Stars) Album of the Year (A Day Without Rain) Las Vegas Film Critic Society: 2001 - Best Original Song (May It Be) Enya Phoenix Film Critics Award: 2001 - Best Original Song (May It Be) Broadcast Film Critics Association: 2001 - Best Original Song (May It Be) Echo Awards (Germany): 2002 - Best pop-rock single (Only Time) Salute to Excellence and International Achievement Summit (Ireland): 2002 - Golden Plate Award Enya University of Ulster (Northern Ireland) 2007 - Honorary "Doctor of Letters" degree National University of Galway (Ireland) 2007 - Honorary "Doctor of Music" degree Ireland's Music Awards 2009 - Best Female Vocalist (voted by public) *NOMINATIONS: BPI Awards: 1989 - Best International Artist 1989 - Best International Newcomer GRAMMY Awards: 1990 - Best Music Video (Orinoco Flow) 2003 - Best Song Written for a Motion Picture (May It Be) 2006 - Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Drifting <b>...</b>
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Herb Alpert - Rise (HQ Audio)
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"Rise" is a song written by Andy Armer and Randy Badazz Alpert, and first recorded by trumpeter Herb Alpert. The instrumental track was included on Alpert's solo album Rise and released as a single in 1979. It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in October of that year and remained in the top position for two weeks. Herb Alpert thus became the first (and only) artist to reach the top of the Hot 100 with a vocal performance ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968) as well as an instrumental performance. "Rise" also spent one week atop the adult contemporary chart. "Rise" was successful on the other charts: It peaked at number four on the soul chart, and number seventeen on the disco chart.The recording also received a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
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53rd annual Grammy awards Recap Lady Gaga,Bruno Mars, & The Aretha Franklin Tribute Was The Best!
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53rd annual Grammy awards Recap Lady Gaga,Bruno Mars, & The Aretha Franklin Tribute Was The Best! "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Album of the year: "The Suburbs" - Arcade Fire Song of the year: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Best new artist: Esperanza Spalding Pop performance by a duo or group with vocals: "Hey, Soul Sister" (Live) - Train Pop vocal album: "The Fame Monster" - Lady Gaga Rock album: "The Resistance" - Muse Rap album: "Recovery" - Eminem Female country vocal performance: Miranda Lambert, "The House That Built Me" Country album: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Producer of the year, non-classical: Danger Mouse Female pop vocal performance: "Bad Romance" -- Lady Gaga Male pop vocal performance: "Just The Way You Are" -- Bruno Mars Pop collaboration with vocals: "Imagine" -- Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare Pop instrumental performance: "Nessun Dorma" -- Jeff Beck Pop instrumental album: "Take Your Pick" -- Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto Dance recording: "Only Girl (In The World)" -- Rihanna Electronic/dance album: "La Roux" -- La Roux Traditional pop vocal album: "Crazy Love" -- Michael Bublé Solo rock vocal performance: "Helter Skelter" -- Paul McCartney Rock performance by a duo or group with vocals: "Tighten Up" -- The Black Keys Hard rock performance: "New Fang" -- Them Crooked Vultures Metal performance: "El Dorado" -- Iron Maiden Rock instrumental performance: "Hammerhead" -- Jeff Beck Rock song: "Angry <b>...</b>
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The Stanley Clarke Band - Labyrinth
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The Stanley Clarke Band, has been nominated for a Grammy Award for best contemporary Jazz Album and Best Pop Instrumental Performance (No Mistery - written By Chick Corea), featuring Hiromi with Ruslan Sirota & Ronald Bruner, jr Distributed by Tubemogul.
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2011 GRAMMY AWARDS RECAP LADY GAGA , DR DRE ,EMINEM RHIANNA JUSTIN BEIBER & BRUNO MARS PERFORM
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2011 GRAMMY AWARDS RECAP LADY GAGA , DR DRE ,EMINEM RHIANNA JUSTIN BEIBER & BRUNO MARS PERFORM Dr. Dre And Eminem Unite With Grammy Performance hitcreatormusic.com Record of the year "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Album of the year: "The Suburbs" - Arcade Fire Song of the year: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Best new artist: Esperanza Spalding Pop performance by a duo or group with vocals: "Hey, Soul Sister" (Live) - Train Pop vocal album: "The Fame Monster" - Lady Gaga Rock album: "The Resistance" - Muse Rap album: "Recovery" - Eminem Female country vocal performance: Miranda Lambert, "The House That Built Me" Country album: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Producer of the year, non-classical: Danger Mouse Female pop vocal performance: "Bad Romance" -- Lady Gaga Male pop vocal performance: "Just The Way You Are" -- Bruno Mars Pop collaboration with vocals: "Imagine" -- Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare Pop instrumental performance: "Nessun Dorma" -- Jeff Beck Pop instrumental album: "Take Your Pick" -- Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto Dance recording: "Only Girl (In The World)" -- Rihanna Electronic/dance album: "La Roux" -- La Roux Traditional pop vocal album: "Crazy Love" -- Michael Bublé Solo rock vocal performance: "Helter Skelter" -- Paul McCartney Rock performance by a duo or group with vocals: "Tighten Up" -- The Black Keys Hard rock performance: "New Fang" -- Them Crooked Vultures Metal performance: "El Dorado <b>...</b>
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Bob James & Earl Klugh Handara
During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in establishing the smooth jazz genre. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi, is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date. He is also well-known for the smooth jazz classics "Nautilus" and "Westchester Lady", the latter from the album Bob James Three. For their first joint album release, One on One, Earl Klugh and Bob James received a Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance of 1981. James is the founding member of contemporary jazz supergroup Fourplay and is a Yamaha Artist. James also received a Grammy award for his collaboration with David Sanborn on the 1986 album "Double Vision"
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51st Grammy Awards Nominations 2009 Part 1
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Record of the Year "Chasing Pavements" - Adele "Viva La Vida" - Coldplay "Bleeding Love" - Leona Lewis "Paper Planes" - MIA "Please Read The Letter" - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Album of the Year "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends" - Coldplay "Tha Carter III" - Lil Wayne "Year Of The Gentleman" - Ne-Yo "Raising Sand" - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss "In Rainbows" - Radiohead Song Of The Year "American Boy" - Estelle Featuring Kanye West "Chasing Pavements" - Adele "I'm Yours" - Jason Mraz "Love Song" - Sara Bareilles "Viva La Vida" - Coldplay Best New Artist Adele Duffy Jonas Brothers Lady Antebellum Jazmine Sullivan Best Female Pop Vocal Performance "Chasing Pavements" - Adele "Love Song" - Sara Bareilles "Mercy" - Duffy "Bleeding Love" - Leona Lewis "I Kissed A Girl" - Katy Perry "So What" - Pink Best Male Pop Vocal Performance "All Summer Long" - Kid Rock "Say" - John Mayer "That Was Me" - Paul McCartney "I'm Yours" - Jason Mraz "Closer" - Ne-Yo "Wichita Lineman" - James Taylor Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals "Viva La Vida" - Coldplay "Waiting In The Weeds" - Eagles "Going On" - Gnarls Barkley "Won't Go Home Without You" - Maroon 5 "Apologize" - OneRepublic Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals "Lesson Learned" - Alicia Keys & John Mayer "4 Minutes" - Madonna, Justin Timberlake & Timbaland "Rich Woman" - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss "If I Never See Your Face Again" - Rihanna & Maroon 5 "No Air" - Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown Best Pop Instrumental <b>...</b>
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Deodato - Also sprach Zarathustra
Eumir Deodato Almeida's singular rendition of "Also sprach Zarathustra" won the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. It is arguably the world's most renowned Latin jazz opus ever. The introductory movement of the original work, a tone poem by Richard Strauss (1896), served as the musical motif in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, "2001: A Space Odyssey." Deodato's arrangement wondrously elaborates on the movie's modernistic theme. Strauss, in turn, was inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's iconoclastic philosophical treatise of the same title (1883-85). Zarathustra, of course, refers to Zoroaster, the Persian prophet and religious poet of antiquity (traditionally, 6th century BC), on whom Nietzsche based the principal character of his book. This marvelous video is the work of Toyokit . Congrats, Toyokit, excellent work! Do visit his channel at: www.youtube.com/user/toyokit
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Larry Carlton Lazy Susan
Lawrence Eugene Carlton born March 2nd 1948 Torrence California. The impressive career of jazz guitarist Larry Carlton dates back more than 30 years. During the 1970s and 1980s, Carlton served as a session player with some of the biggest and most respected names in the music industry, covering a vast musical terrain. Although often referred to as a "smooth" jazz musician, he aptly played everything from rock, pop, folk, and jazz to country, gospel, and R&B. His credits include work with the likes of John Lennon, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand, and hundreds of others. At the height of his career as a session player, he contributed to more than 500 recordings per year and, in total, played on more than 100 gold albums. He furthermore worked on numerous film and television soundtracks, including the theme from the show Hill Street Blues, which won a Grammy Award in 1981 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. All the while, Carlton gained recognition for his own work in the studio and on stage. After securing a major-label contract in 1977, he recorded several solo albums and, in March of 2002, at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, won the prize with fellow guitarist Steve Lukather for Best Pop Instrumental Album for No Substitutions: Live in Osaka.
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Mick Jagger w / Raphael Saadiq 2011 Grammy awards performance
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- Duration: 0:35
- Published: 14 Feb 2011
- Uploaded: 17 Oct 2011
- Author: markandrobtv2
Mick Jagger 2011 grammy awards performance recap The 53rd Grammy Awards took place on February 13 2011 in LA Mick Jagger - Grammy 2011 Mick Jagger - Grammy 2011 2011 Grammy Awards recap / review The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards took place sunday February 13 2011 Many were nominated but few won 2011 Grammy Awards had some good performances The music industry elite were in attendance And the winners are: Record of the year: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Album of the year: "The Suburbs" - Arcade Fire Song of the year: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Best new artist: Esperanza Spalding Pop performance by a duo or group with vocals: "Hey, Soul Sister" (Live) - Train Pop vocal album: "The Fame Monster" - Lady Gaga Rock album: "The Resistance" - Muse Rap album: "Recovery" - Eminem Female country vocal performance: Miranda Lambert, "The House That Built Me" Country album: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Producer of the year, non-classical: Danger Mouse Female pop vocal performance: "Bad Romance" -- Lady Gaga Male pop vocal performance: "Just The Way You Are" -- Bruno Mars Pop collaboration with vocals: "Imagine" -- Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare Pop instrumental performance: "Nessun Dorma" -- Jeff Beck Pop instrumental album: "Take Your Pick" -- Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto Dance recording: "Only Girl (In The World)" -- Rihanna Electronic/dance album: "La Roux" -- La Roux Traditional pop vocal album: "Crazy Love" -- Michael Bublé <b>...</b>
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George Harrison Any Road (2009 Stereo Remaster)
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- Duration: 3:53
- Published: 22 Jan 2011
- Uploaded: 04 Jan 2012
- Author: TheQuarrymen58
Join the Official TheQuarrymen58 Facebook page for News, Photos and exclusive videos! www.facebook.com The 2009 remaster of the song from 2009's Let It Roll - The Best of George Harrison. Join the Official TheQuarrymen58 Facebook page for News, Photos and exclusive videos! www.facebook.com "Any Road" is a song by George Harrison and is the opening track to his posthumous album Brainwashed. It was written in 1988 during the making of a video for his 1987 album Cloud Nine. The earliest known public appearance of "Any Road" was during in 1997, when George Harrison was being interviewed by VH1, where he performed the song. "Any Road" was the last and definitive Harrison's song to be released as a single, but didn´t sell well. The song was released on 12 May 2003 as a single in the United Kingdom and peaked at #37 in the UK Charts. "Any Road" was nominated at the 2004 Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was also featured on the 2004 Grammy Nominees compilation album. Although the song lost the award to Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River," George Harrison's "Marwa Blues," the instrumental B-side to "Any Road," won in its category for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Both "Any Road" and "Marwa Blues" were included in Harrison's 2009 career-spanning compilation Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison.
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Maxwell performs "Til Cops Come Knockin" for the Grammy Museum Benefit
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- Duration: 10:21
- Published: 04 Dec 2009
- Uploaded: 26 Aug 2011
- Author: lovejunkeedjs
Maxwell performs "Til Cops Come Knockin" for the Grammy Museum Benefit at Club Nokia on 12/2/09. Congratulations to Maxwell for earning 6 Grammy nominations: + Song of the Year - "Pretty Wings" + Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - "Love You" + Best Pop Instrumental Performance - "Phoenix Rise" + Best Male R&B Vocal Performance - "Pretty Wings" + Best R&B Song - "Pretty Wings" + Best R&B Album - "BLACKsummers'night" Check out www.musze.com for more info. Download the "Everwanting Maxwell Mixtape" at http (keyword search: everwanting). Also, please fee free to subscribe to our channel and leave us comments on our lovejunkeedjs CHANNEL PAGE to let us know what other live shows you'd like to see.
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Maxwell performs "Ascension" for the Grammy Museum Benefit
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- Duration: 9:52
- Published: 04 Dec 2009
- Uploaded: 24 Dec 2011
- Author: lovejunkeedjs
Maxwell performs "Ascension" for the Grammy Museum Benefit at Club Nokia on 12/2/09. Congratulations to Maxwell for earning 6 Grammy nominations: + Song of the Year - "Pretty Wings" + Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - "Love You" + Best Pop Instrumental Performance - "Phoenix Rise" + Best Male R&B Vocal Performance - "Pretty Wings" + Best R&B Song - "Pretty Wings" + Best R&B Album - "BLACKsummers'night" Check out www.musze.com for more info. Download the "Everwanting Maxwell Mixtape" at http (keyword search: everwanting). Also, please fee free to subscribe to our channel and leave us comments on our lovejunkeedjs CHANNEL PAGE to let us know what other live shows you'd like to see.
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Bob James Enchanted Forest
During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in turning fusion jazz more mainstream. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi, is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date. He is also well-known for the fusion classics "Nautilus" and "Westchester Lady", the latter from the album Bob James Three. For their first joint album release, One on One, Earl Klugh and Bob James received a Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance of 1981. James is the founding member of contemporary jazz supergroup Fourplay and is a Yamaha Artist. Very influenced by pop and movie music, James has often featured soloists who add a jazz touch to his sound (most notably Grover Washington, Jr.). While best known for his fusion sound, James began in 1962, recording a bop-ish trio set for Mercury. Three years later, his album for ESP was quite avant-garde, with electronic tapes used for effects. After a period with Sarah Vaughan (1965-1968), he became a studio musician, appearing with Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson on the 1972 album Cherry and with Turrentine on his following album Don't Mess with Mister T. (1973), and that same year was arranging and working as a producer for CTI. In 1974, James recorded his first purely commercial effort as a leader; he later made big-selling albums for his own Tappan Zee label, Columbia, and Warner Bros., including collaborations with Earl Klugh and David Sanborn
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Hilary James & Bob James Storm Warning
Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is a jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist, arranger and producer. During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in turning fusion jazz more mainstream. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi, is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date. He is also well-known for the fusion classics "Nautilus" and "Westchester Lady", the latter from the album Bob James Three. For their first joint album release, One on One, Earl Klugh and Bob James received a Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance of 1981. James is the founding member of contemporary jazz supergroup Fourplay and is a Yamaha Artist. Very influenced by pop and movie music, James has often featured soloists who add a jazz touch to his sound (most notably Grover Washington, Jr.). While best known for his fusion sound, James began in 1962, recording a bop-ish trio set for Mercury. Three years later, his album for ESP was quite avant-garde, with electronic tapes used for effects. After a period with Sarah Vaughan (1965-1968), he became a studio musician, appearing with Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson on the 1972 album Cherry and with Turrentine on his following album Don't Mess with Mister T. (1973), and that same year was arranging and working as a producer for CTI. In 1974, James recorded his first purely commercial effort as a leader; he later made big-selling albums for his own Tappan Zee label, Columbia, and Warner Bros., including <b>...</b>
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Maxwell performs for the Grammy Museum Benefit / Opening Medley Pt. 1
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- Duration: 7:03
- Published: 04 Dec 2009
- Uploaded: 03 Nov 2011
- Author: lovejunkeedjs
Maxwell performs a medley of "DanceWitMe", "Sumthin' Sumthin", "Get To Know Ya", and "Lifetime" for his opening set for the Grammy Museum Benefit at Club Nokia on 12/2/09. Congratulations to Maxwell for earning 6 Grammy nominations: + Song of the Year - "Pretty Wings" + Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - "Love You" + Best Pop Instrumental Performance - "Phoenix Rise" + Best Male R&B Vocal Performance - "Pretty Wings" + Best R&B Song - "Pretty Wings" + Best R&B Album - "BLACKsummers'night" Check out www.musze.com for more info. Download the "Everwanting Maxwell Mixtape" at http (keyword search: everwanting). Also, please fee free to subscribe to our channel and leave us comments on our lovejunkeedjs CHANNEL PAGE to let us know what other live shows you'd like to see.
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Maxwell performs "Bad Habits" for the Grammy Museum
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- Duration: 4:54
- Published: 03 Dec 2009
- Uploaded: 22 Nov 2011
- Author: lovejunkeedjs
Maxwell performs "Bad Habits" for the Grammy Museum at Club Nokia on 12/2/09. Congratulations to Maxwell for earning 6 Grammy nominations: + Song of the Year - "Pretty Wings" + Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - "Love You" + Best Pop Instrumental Performance - "Phoenix Rise" + Best Male R&B Vocal Performance - "Pretty Wings" + Best R&B Song - "Pretty Wings" + Best R&B Album - "BLACKsummers'night" Check out www.musze.com for more info. Download the "Everwanting Maxwell Mixtape" at http (keyword search: everwanting). Also, please fee free to subscribe to our channel and leave us comments on our lovejunkeedjs CHANNEL PAGE to let us know what other live shows you'd like to see.
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The Stanley Clarke Band - Here's why tears dry
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- Duration: 4:57
- Published: 03 Jan 2011
- Uploaded: 13 Sep 2011
- Author: milestones2011
The Stanley Clarke Band, has been nominated for a Grammy Award for best contemporary Jazz Album and Best Pop Instrumental Performance (No Mistery - written By Chick Corea), featuring Hiromi with Ruslan Sirota, Lenny White & Ronald Bruner, jr. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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![George Harrison - Any Road [Remastered] [HD Update]](http://web.archive.org./web/20120106170016im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xW7YWMyHqa8/0.jpg "George Harrison - Any Road [Remastered] [HD Update]")
George Harrison - Any Road [Remastered] [HD Update]
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- Duration: 3:54
- Published: 14 Jul 2011
- Uploaded: 08 Dec 2011
- Author: TheMusicalSteve
Re-mastered from the original master. Updated version, since the old one has got a muffled audio track. "Any Road" is a song by George Harrison and is the opening track to his posthumous album, Brainwashed. It was written in 1988 during the making of a video for his 1987 album, Cloud Nine. The earliest known public performance of "Any Road" was in 1997, by Harrison, during an interview conducted by VH1. "Any Road" was the last Harrison song to be released as a single, but didn't sell well. The song was released on 12 May 2003 as a single in the United Kingdom and peaked at #37 in the UK Charts. "Any Road" was nominated at the 2004 Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was also featured on the 2004 Grammy Nominees compilation album. Although the song lost the award to Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River," Harrison's "Marwa Blues" (the instrumental B-side to "Any Road") won in its category for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The refrain "If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there" was essentially a paraphrase of an exchange between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Chapter 6 of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "--so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said <b>...</b>
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Stanley Jordan Trio @ Iridium in NY on 9/28/08 by Lia Chang
Kudos to Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan who marks his triumphant return to the commercial music industry with his first Grammy-award nod in 23 years, for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The 51st Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live on CBS on February 8, 2009. I saw the jazz virtuoso in performance this Fall with members of the Stanley Jordan Trio, bassist Charnette Moffett and drummer Kenwood Denard at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York. Stanley's fluid and melodic use of tapping, "touches and taps" on the guitar's board instead of conventional strumming and picking, is truly something to experience live. They played tracks from his latest CD, 'State of Nature' (Mack Avenue Records, April 2008), his first release in more than a decade. The track 'Stepping Out' from 'State of Nature' has been nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. By Lia Chang
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Howard Barnard performing - Sleepwalk
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- Duration: 4:52
- Published: 06 Apr 2008
- Uploaded: 15 Dec 2011
- Author: grantsrodeoopry
Howard Barnard performing "Sleepwalk" at the Centennial Rodeo Opry in OKC's Historic Stockyards City on the April 5th, 2008. Featuring Terry Scarberry on electric guitar. Sleep Walk" continues to be popular due to consistent radio airplay as well as its usage in commercials, television shows, and movies. One of the first covers was by Betsy Brye[6] (stage name of Bette Anne Steele) in 1959. While Santo & Johnny wrote lyrics for "Sleepwalk", they never recorded a lyrical version, but Betsy Brye's version included these lyrics. It has been also covered by The Shadows, The Ventures, Jake Shimabukuro, Larry Carlton[7], Deftones, Chet Atkins[8], Danny Gatton, and Joe Satriani[9]. Indie group Modest Mouse also covered the song with lyrics and entitled their version "Sleepwalking". A version of the song by Brian Setzer received a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance of 1998.[10] Santo & Johnny were induced into The Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 2002
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The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance was awarded between 1969 and 2011.
In 1969 it was awarded as Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental
From 1970 to 1971 it was awarded as Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance
In 1972 it was awarded as Best Pop Instrumental Performance
In 1973 it was awarded as Best Pop Instrumental Performance by an Instrumental Performer
From 1974 to 1975 it was again awarded as Best Pop Instrumental Performance
From 1986 to 1989 it was awarded as Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Since 1990 it has again been awarded as Best Pop Instrumental Performance
The award will be discontinued from 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012, all instrumental performances in the pop category (solo or with a duo/group) will be shifted to either the newly formed Best Pop Solo Performance or Best Pop Duo/Group categories.
Grammy Awards of 2011
*Jeff Beck for Nessun Dorma
Grammy Awards of 2010
*Béla Fleck for "Throw Down Your Heart"
Grammy Awards of 2009
*Eagles for "I Dreamed There Was No War"
Grammy Awards of 2008
*Joni Mitchell for "One Week Last Summer"
Grammy Awards of 2007
*George Benson & Al Jarreau for "Mornin'"
Grammy Awards of 2006
*Les Paul for "Caravan"
Grammy Awards of 2005
*Ben Harper for "11th Commandment"
Grammy Awards of 2004
*George Harrison for "Marwa Blues"
Grammy Awards of 2003
*B. B. King for "Auld Lang Syne"
Grammy Awards of 2002
*Eric Clapton for "Reptile"
Grammy Awards of 2001
*Brian Setzer for "Caravan" performed by the Brian Setzer Orchestra
Grammy Awards of 2000
*Santana for "El Farol"
Grammy Awards of 1999
*Brian Setzer for "Sleepwalk" performed by The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Grammy Awards of 1998
*Sarah McLachlan for "Last Dance"
Grammy Awards of 1997
*Béla Fleck and the Flecktones for "The Sinister Minister"
Grammy Awards of 1996
*Los Lobos for "Mariachi Suite"
Grammy Awards of 1995
*Booker T. & the M.G.'s for "Cruisin' "
Grammy Awards of 1994
*Branford Marsalis & Bruce Hornsby for "Barcelona Mona"
Grammy Awards of 1993
*Richard Kaufman (conductor) for "Beauty and the Beast"
Grammy Awards of 1992
*Michael Kamen for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Grammy Awards of 1991
*Angelo Badalamenti for "Twin Peaks Theme"
Grammy Awards of 1990
*The Neville Brothers for "Healing Chant"
Grammy Awards of 1989
*David Sanborn for Close-up
Grammy Awards of 1988
*Larry Carlton for "Minute By Minute"
Grammy Awards of 1987
*Harold Faltermeyer & Steve Stevens for "Top Gun Anthem"
Grammy Awards of 1986
*Jan Hammer for "Miami Vice Theme"
Grammy Awards of 1985
*Ray Parker Jr. for "Ghostbusters (Instrumental)"
Grammy Awards of 1984
*George Benson for "Being With You"
Grammy Awards of 1983
*Ernie Watts for "Chariots of Fire Theme (Dance Version)"
Grammy Awards of 1982
*Larry Carlton & Mike Post for "The Theme From Hill Street Blues"
Grammy Awards of 1981
*Bob James & Earl Klugh for "One on One"
Grammy Awards of 1980
*Herb Alpert for "Rise"
Grammy Awards of 1979
*Chuck Mangione for "Children of Sanchez"
Grammy Awards of 1978
*John Williams for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope soundtrack
Grammy Awards of 1977
*George Benson for "Breezin'"
Grammy Awards of 1976
*Van McCoy for "The Hustle"
Grammy Awards of 1975
*Marvin Hamlisch for "The Entertainer"
Grammy Awards of 1974
*Eumir Deodato for "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)"
Grammy Awards of 1973
*Billy Preston for "Outa-Space"
Grammy Awards of 1972
*Quincy Jones for Smackwater Jack
Grammy Awards of 1971
*Henry Mancini for Theme from Z and Other Film Music
Grammy Awards of 1970
*Blood, Sweat & Tears for "Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie"
Grammy Awards of 1969
*Mason Williams for "Classical Gas"
Category:Grammy Awards for pop music
Pop Instrumental Performance
A similar award for Best Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1965 to 1968. This was also in the pop field, but did not specify pop music.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
2010s
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
1960s
This text is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA License. This text was originally published on Wikipedia and was developed by the Wikipedia community.
| name | Grammy Awards |
|---|---|
| current awards | 53rd Grammy Awards |
| description | Outstanding achievements in the music industry |
| presenter | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
| country | United States |
| year | 1959 |
| website | http://www.grammy.com/ }} |
A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award) — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The annual awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely viewed televised ceremony. It is the music equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Award for stage and the Academy Awards for film.
The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. Following the 2011 ceremony, NARAS overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 54th Grammy Awards will be held on February 12, 2012 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Gramophone trophy
The gold-plated trophies are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, and making the trophy bigger and grander. The trophies with the recipient's name engraved on them are not available till after the award announcements, so "stunt" trophies are re-used each year for the broadcast.As of February 2009, 7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded.
Categories
The "General Field" are four awards which are not restricted by genre.
Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other contributions such as artwork and video. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry.
History
The Grammy Awards had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. As the recording executives chosen for the Walk of Fame committee worked at compiling a list of important recording industry people who might qualify for a Walk of Fame star, they realized there were many more people who were leaders in their business who would never earn a star on Hollywood Boulevard. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating an award given by their industry similar to the Oscars and the Emmys. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. After it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it; one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of Edison's invention, the gramophone, for the awards, which were first given for the year 1958.Nomination process
Record companies and individuals may submit recordings to be nominated. Nominations are made online and a physical copy of the work is sent to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Once a work is entered, reviewing sessions are held, by more than 150 experts from the recording industry, to determine whether the work is eligible and entered in the correct category for official nomination.The resulting list is circulated to all NARAS members, each of whom may vote to nominate in the general field (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) and in no more than nine out of 30 other fields on their ballots. The five recordings that earn the most votes in each category become the nominees. There may be more than five nominees if there is a tie in the nomination process.
Whereas members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are generally invited to screenings or are sent DVDs of movies nominated for Oscars, NARAS members do not receive nominated recordings.
After nominees have been determined, final voting ballots are sent to Recording Academy members, who may then vote in the general fields and in no more than eight of the 30 fields. NARAS members are encouraged, but not required, to vote only in their fields of expertise. Ballots are tabulated secretly by the major independent accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Following the tabulation of votes the winners are announced at the Grammy Awards. The recording with the most votes in a category wins and it is possible to have a tie. Winners are presented with the Grammy Award and those who do not win are given a medal for their nomination.
In both voting rounds, Academy members are required to vote based upon quality alone, and not to be influenced by sales, chart performance, personal friendships, regional preferences or company loyalty. The acceptance of gifts is prohibited. Members are urged to vote in a manner that preserves the integrity of the academy.
The eligibility period for the 2012 Grammy Awards is September 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011.
2012 category restructuring
On April 6, 2011, The Recording Academy announced a drastic overhaul of many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The number of categories will be brought down to 78 from 109. The most important change is the elimination of the distinction between male and female soloists and between collaborations and duo/groups in various genre fields (pop, rock, R&B;, country and rap). Also, several categories for instrumental soloists will be discontinued. Recordings in these categories will now fall under the general categories for best solo performances.
In the Rock field, the separate categories for hard rock and metal albums are combined and the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category has been eliminated due to a waning number of entries.
In R&B;, the distinction between best contemporary R&B; album and other R&B; albums has been eliminated. They now feature in one, general Best R&B; Album category.
In Rap, the categories for best rap soloist and best rap duo or group will be merged into the new Best Rap Performance category.
The most eliminations occurred in the Roots category. Up to and including 2011, there were separate categories for various regional American music forms, such as Hawaiian music, Native American music and Zydeco/Cajun music. Due to the consistently low number of entries for these categories, The Recording Academy decided to combine all these music variations into the new Best Regional Roots Music Album, which will also include polka, which lost its own separate category in 2009.
In the same genre field, the traditional and contemporary blues categories and the traditional and contemporary folk categories each will be consolidated into one per genre, due to the number of entries and given the challenges in distinguishing between Contemporary Folk and Americana, and Contemporary and Traditional Blues. In the World Music genre field, the traditional and contemporary categories have also been merged.
In the Classical genre field, its main category Best Classical Album has been discontinued because most recipients in this category had also won in one of the other classical categories for the same album. Classical recordings will now be eligible for the main Album of the Year category.
There are also a few minor name changes to better reflect the nature of the separate categories. It was determined by the Recording Academy that the word "Gospel" in the Gospel genre field tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and leaves out the current Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). Therefore the genre field and some categories have been renamed as Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music.
Several genre fields will remain unchanged, such as Dance, Reggae, Traditional Pop, Spoken Word and Comedy. The Crafts field (e.g. Liner Notes, Packaging and Historical Productions) is also unchanged.
Leaders
With 31 Grammy Awards, Sir Georg Solti is the male artist with the most Grammy wins. Alison Krauss is the biggest winner among female artists with 26 awards. U2, with 22, holds the record among bands, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra holds the record for any musical group with 62 wins.
| Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Artist | Georg Solti | Quincy Jones | Alison Krauss |
| Total awards | 31 | 27 | 26 |
Criticism
Because thousands of recordings appear each year and very few voting members have heard more than a relatively small number of them, it is likely that many individual votes will be cast by voters who are unfamiliar with all the recordings nominated in that category. Additionally, because of the small number of votes cast in many of the categories, a lobbying campaign for a particular recording may need only a few dozen votes for success. Large choruses have achieved Grammy awards after persuading many of their members to join NARAS.Certain musical artists have voiced personal issues with the nature of the Grammys.
When his band Pearl Jam won a Grammy in the category Best Hard Rock Performance in 1996, singer Eddie Vedder commented on stage: "I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything."
Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of progressive metal band Tool, did not attend the Grammy Awards ceremony to receive one of their awards. He explained his reasons: }}
Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2 was critical of the Grammys early in his career, but later he began to appreciate their inclusiveness: }}
The Grammy Awards has also been criticized for generally awarding or nominating more commercially successful albums rather than critically successful albums.
TV broadcasts and ratings
Prior to the first live Grammys telecast in 1971 on American Broadcasting Company (ABC), a series of taped annual specials in the 1960s called The Best on Record were broadcast on National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The first Grammy Award telecast took place on the night of November 29, 1959, as an episode of the NBC anthology series Sunday Showcase, which was normally devoted to plays, original TV dramas, and variety shows. Until 1971, awards ceremonies were held in both New York and Los Angeles, with winners accepting at one of the two. Pierre Cossette bought the rights to broadcast the ceremony from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and organized the first live telecast. CBS Broadcasting bought the rights in 1973 after moving the ceremony to Nashville, Tennessee; the American Music Awards were created for ABC (by Dick Clark) as a result.The Recording Academy announced on June 21, 2011 that it had reached a new deal with CBS to keep the awards show on the network for another 10 years. CBS will also broadcast the annual nominations concert special on November 30, 2011 from Los Angeles. The Grammys are set for Feb. 12, 2012. The 2011 Grammy Award show had 26.6 million viewers.
Venue
Prior to 1971, the Grammy Award ceremonies were held in different locations on the same day. Originally New York City and Los Angeles were the host cities. Chicago joined being a host city in 1962, and then Nashville became the fourth location in 1965.The first Grammys ceremony in 1971, held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, was the first one to take place in one location. The ceremony was then moved to Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in New York City, and then Nashville's Tennessee Theatre in the following two years. Then from 1974 to 2003, the Grammys were held in various venues in New York City and Los Angeles. Notable locations included New York City's Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall; and Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, the Staples Center and the Hollywood Palladium.
In 2004, the Staples Center became the permanent home of the award ceremonies. The Grammy Museum was built across the street from Staples Center in LA Live to preserve the history of the Grammy Awards. Embedded on the sidewalks at the museum streets are bronze disks, similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honoring each year's top winners, Record of the Year, Best New Artist, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year.
See also
Notes and references
External links
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