A-Train is pleased to announce that A-Train affiliated artists and labels held 5 of the top 30 recordings in 2010’s World Music Charts Europe, including number #1.
With the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars’s “Rise and Shine” at number one, other A-Train clients were Six Degrees’ “Vagarosa” by Ceu, Cumbancha’s “Lero Lero” by Luisa Maita, “Opa Hey!” by Kottarashky on Asphalt Tango and Konono No 1’s “Assume Crash Position” from Crammed Disc.
Congratulations to all!
Congratulation to the the following A-Train Entertainment artists for earning a top 10 spot on Billboard’s best of 2010!
Smooth Jazz Songs Artists:
#3 Chris Standring
#4 Rick Braun
#8 Spencer Day
Smooth Jazz Songs:
#1 “Bossa Blue” – Chris Standring Blue Bolero
#6 “Christiane” – Rick Braun All It Takes
#10 “Retro Boy” – Richard Elliot Rock Steady
Dance Airplay:
#2 “Radio” – Get Far feat. H- Boogie
53rd Grammy Final Nominations List
Category 8 Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
“Imagine” Herbie Hancock w/ Konono (Crammed disc artist)
Category 10 Best Pop Instrumental Album
Pushing The Envelope- Gerald Albright (Peak/Heads Up/Concord)
Category 26 Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
“Hang On In There”- John Legend & The Roots (co songwriter- Mike James Kirkland
Category 43 Best New Age Album
Dancing Into Silence- R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman (Canyon Records)
Category 65 Best Bluegrass Album
Legacy- The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band (Compass Records)
Category 71 Best Native American Music Album
XI- Bear Creek (Canyon Records)
Temptations: Cree Round Dance Songs- Northern Cree (Canyon Records)
Category 86 Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists
“Imagine”- Herbie Hancock w/ Konono
A Train would like to formally congratulate Clyde Wright and the Golden Gate Quartet on their induction into the Gospel Hall Of Fame. It was announced on November 16th that the quartet would receive this honor along with Johnny Cash, Degamo & Key, and Bill “Hoss” Allen. Wright, who is 82, has been making Gospel music for more than 50 years and could not be more proud of this achievement. The Gospel Music Hall of Fame was founded in 1971 and more than 150 members have been inducted so far.
Congratulations are in order now that Airto Moreira has regained his position as Number One percussionist in Downbeat Magazine’s 75th Annual Reader’s Poll. Established in 1934, Downbeat is devoted to “jazz, blues and beyond.” It’s annual Reader’s Poll award is a prestigious honor and we here at A Train couldn’t be more proud of Airto for winning Number One percussionist again this year.
The American Smooth Jazz Awards took place on October 29th at the DuSable Museum in Chicago. The awards, presented to a sold out crowd by Scott & Company Music Group, were hosted by guitarist Nick Colionne and Chicago radio personality Rick O’Dell. Congratulations to nominees: Rick Braun (Brass/Woodwind), Steve Golub (Guitarist), Gregg Karukas (Keyboardist), Down to the Bone (International Group) and Four80East (International Group).
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A Train is pleased to present the following list of artists, releases and compositions nominated in the first round of the Grammy Awards. We look forward to NARAS’s members second and final round voting in December and hope that you’ll see a number of these recordings in that second round ballot.
Home to recordings from Zero, Gregg’s Eggs, the Mix, Cast of Clowns, the Heart of Gold Band and more, Whirled Records is a treasure trove of recordings, many of them never heard before and featuring such musical talents as Steve Kimock, John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service), Keith & Donna Godchaux (the Grateful Dead), John Kadlecik (Further), Nicky Hopkins, Bill Kreutzman (The Grateful Dead), Greg Anton, Melvin Seals Pete Sears, and Martin Fierro among others. Many of the recordings include lyrics by Robert Hunter, noted lyricist for The Grateful Dead. Many of the releases are engineered / mastered by Brian Rizner.
World Village / Harmonia Mundi (European licensor of Lila Downs’ Y La Mysteriosa: En Paris n Live a FIP) has been honored with the Top Label award at this years World Music Expo. Created as a joint project with the World Music Charts (WMCE), the selection for the WOMEX Top Label award is made using the charts of forty seven radio broadcasters from twenty four countries over the last twelve months. Other A Train affiliates included in the top labels are Cumbancha (number two), Asphalt Tango (number nine), and Six Degrees (number ten). The Award will be given to World Village / Harmonia Mundi at the WOMEX Award Ceremony on Sunday October 31rst. For the full top twenty list with chart topping CDs check out the WOMEX website.
To acknowledge the quarter century milestone and because of the global love and popularity of the song, United Support of Artists for Africa plans to re-release the original recording of “We Are The World”, this time surrounded by songs from artists around the world. A Train artists to be featured on this historic tribute album include Lila Downs, Razia Said, Vieux Farka Toure, and Luisa Maita. Continue reading
