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Funk Vocalist Nadir Launches New Vinyl Single & Video for "Go It Alone"

Latin Jazz Musician Alejandro "Alex" Garcia Wins Emmy Award

J.J.A. Announces Nominees for 16th JJA Jazz Awards

Sonny Fortune Receives Highlights In Jazz Award

Gina Carey Wins 2012 Jazz Music Award in the Desert Music Video Contest

Terri Lynn Carrington's THE MOSAIC PROJECT Receives 2012 Grammy for "Best Jazz Vocal Album"

Esperanza Spalding Did The Oscars | Gave Triumphant Performance

Adele Wins 6 Grammy Awards, Including Record of the Year & More

Gospel Artist Le'Andria Johnson to Perform @ the 54th Annual GRAMMY® Pre-Telecast Ceremony | Feb. 12th - 1pm PT/4pm ET

Actress Tre Armstrong to Receive Award at the 3rd Annual Black History Month Gala in Ottawa

GRAMMY® Nominee Adele to Make a Return to the Stage on the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards®

Jazz Guitarist Stanley Jordan is Nominated for 2012 NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Jazz Album" | 'Friends'

Gospel Duo MARY MARY Wins 2 Stellar Awards

Actress Tonya Lee Williams To Receive Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award

Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Cicely Tyson and Common to Perform at BET HONORS 2012 | Feb. 13th, 2012

Gil Scott-Heron to be Honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 Grammy Awards

13th Annual BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards to Honor Kirk Franklin & Hezekiah Walker | Jan. 13th, 2012

Grammy Winner Gloria Gaynor’s #1 ‘I Will Survive’ to Be Inducted In 2012 Grammy Hall of Fame

Jazz & Classics Division of Concord Music Group Receives 9 Grammy Nominations

DL Media Clients Receives 8 Grammy Nominations in Six Categories

Mint Condition's Lead Singer Stokley Williams Receives 2 Grammy Nominations!

Big Stars Join Forces with Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & Scorpio for "The Message" on 'The Grammy Nominations Concert Live'

The Recording Academy® Announces 2012 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame® Inductees

Gospel Singer Earnest Pugh Gathers 4 Stellar Award Nominations

Gospel Songbird Y'Anna Crawley Recieves 2 Stellar Award Nominations

Hit Gospel Duo Mary Mary Garners 6 2012 Stellar Awards Nominations

Multi Faceted Singer Dorothy Leigh Receives Nominations in the 54th Annual Grammy Awards 2012 - 1st Round

"The Original 7Ven" to be Opening Act on the 3rd Annual 2011 'Soul Train Awards' | Nov. 17th, 2011

Jazz Great Ramsey Lewis to Receive "Joie de Vivre" Award

Trumpeter Terence Blanchard Named a Voting Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences!

Gospel Vocalist Martha Minuzzi Receives Six Stellar Award Nominations in 1st Round

The IMAs Announces Judges for The 11th Annual Independent Music Awards

Gospel Jazz Saxophonist Todd Ledbetter Receives Nomination for the 1st Annual Gospel Blue M.I.C. Awards

The 2011 Minnesota Black Music Awards Salutes Alexander O'Neal | July 15th

More Artists Added to the BET AWARDS '11 List of Talents...

Gospel Artist James Fortune to Be Honored At 24th Annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards

Stanley Clarke Set To Be Honored At Montreal Jazz Fest With Esteemed Miles Davis Award on June 26

The 15th Annual Gala Celebrating the Jazz Journalists Assoc. Awards | June 11th, 2011

The Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2011 Award Finalists

42nd Annual GMA Dove Awards Celebrated at Atlanta's Fabulous Fox Theatre Pulls in Major Star Power at Sold Out Show

The Seabreeze Jazz Festival Will Present The 2011 Oasis Contemporary Jazz Awards

The Recording Academy® Announces Restructuring of Categories Across All Genres and Fields to be Recognized at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2012

Kellylee Evans Wins 2011 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

The Winners of The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards Has Been Announced

Dennis Coffey to be Honored at Detroit Music Awards

Hall & Oates To Receive Music Icon Award at the "TV Land Awards 2011"

Jasmine Guy, Shirley Sherrod & Fonzworth Bentley Among 2011 Drum Major for Justice Honorees

"For Love of Liberty" Wins NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary

UNCF Wins Third Image Award for Its Tribute to Lionel Ritchie: 'Dancing On The Ceiling'

Stanley Clarke Wins Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Esperanza Spalding Wins Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards

Keri Hilson, The Roots & Members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Perform at 2011 GRAMMY Celebration®

Yolanda Adams, Jennifer Hudson and Many More will Join Together to Celebrate the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin on the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards®

Pianist Geri Allen Nominated for 2011 NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Jazz Album"

Best New Artist Grammy Nominee Esperanza Spalding to Perform at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards

Trombonist Trombone Shorty is Making News...

Drake and Rihanna to Perform Together at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Music Legend Gloria Gaynor to Receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in Music on Feb. 5th, 2011

Dee Dee Bridgewater's Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959) Receives NAACP Image Award Nomination...

Pianist Geri Allen Nominated For 2011 NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Jazz Album"

Urban Contemporary Gospel Artist, TolumiDE, Receives 2 Nominations

Gospel Singer Charles McPhatter Receives 2 Music Nominations...

ESSENCE Salute GRAMMY®-Nominated Artist Janelle Monae at 2nd Annual ESSENCE Black Women in Music

Smokey Robinson's CD, "Now And Then" Nominated for "Outstanding Album" @ 2011 NAACP Image Awards

The 4th Annual BET HONORS Premiere's Feb. 21st, 2011 | Hosted by Gabrielle Union

The 2011 GRAMMY Salute To Industry Icons® Honors David Greffen

Legend Herbie Hancock To Be Honored By BET on Jan. 15th at BET Honors

Soul Singer Eric Roberson Receives Grammy® nomination for Best Urban Alternative Performance

S-Curve Records Signs Soul Legend Betty Wright | Nominated for Best Traditional R&B Vocal for "Go".

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

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

New Christmas Single by Lisa McClowry Now Available on iTunes

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

The 32nd Annual Blues Music Awards Announces Nominees

BET Recognizes 6 Individuals in the Fourth Annual BET HONORS on Feb. 21st, 2011

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

Hit-Making Songwriter Claude Kelly Receives Grammy® Nomination for Fantasia's "Bittersweet"

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

Kelly Price is Nominated for Best Female Vocal Performance at 2011 Grammy's

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

R&B Singer Raheem DeVaughn Receives Grammy Nomination for Best R&B Album of The Year | 2011

Sade's 'SOLDIER OF LOVE' Recieves Two Grammy Nominations

EMI Gospel Celebrates Seven Grammy Nominations

Telarc and Heads Up Receive 7 Grammy® Nominations

Shore Fire Artists Earn 18 Grammy Award Nominations

Angelique Kidyo Recieves 2010 Grammy Nomination for 'Oyo' and Much More...

Soul Artist Tyrangem Nominated for Best R&B Song

Not Alone Foundation Honors Jimi Hendrix

Voices of Destiny Named 'The Best Church Choir in America'

LISA PAGE BROOKS RECEIVES NOMINATIONS FOR 2011 STELLAR & 2010 SOUL TRAIN AWARDS

The 2nd Annual Soul Train Awards | Nov. 28th, 2010

Jason Moran Awarded 2010 MacArthur Fellowship

Saxophonist Jessy J Wins ASCAPLUS Award...

Terence Howard & Taraji P. Henson Hosts CENTRIC'S 2nd Annual Soul Train Awards | Nov. 28th, 2010

Issac Delgado Receives Latin Grammy Nomination in Best Latin Jazz Album Category for "L-O-V-E'

The 2011 Essence Fierce & Fabulous Awards

Esperanza Spalding Honors Prince at the 10th Annual BET Music Awards

10th Anniversary BET Awards Called the Rise of the Phoenix | 2010

BET AWARDS '10 to Honor Musical Icon, Prince - 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award | June 27th, 2010

Oasis Contemporary Jazz Awards in San Diego | March 2011