Congratulations to Canyon Records for their 2018 NAMA nominations!

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Congratulations to the 2018 NAMA nominees! Canyon Records has received 11 nominations this year.

Flutist of the Year:
Kelvin Mockingbird-“Night Echo Star Seed”

Group or Duo of the Year:

Northern Cree-“miyo kekisepa, Make a Stand”

Young Spirit-“oskiyak kisik – Mewasinsational”

Best Male Artist:

Randy Wood-“Family”

Tony Duncan-“Purify”

Best Historical or Linguistic Recording:

Kenneth White, Jr., Edmond White, Dine Baalil of Navajoland-“Songs from Dinetah”

Best Pow-Wow or Drum Recording:

Northern Cree-“miyo kekisepa, Make a Stand”

Randy Wood-“Family”

Young Spirit-“oskiyak kisik – Mewasinsational”

Young Spirit-“sakitohk-Love Each Other”

Best Traditional Recording:

Randy Wood-“Family”

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Congratulations to Airto Moreira!

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A Train congratulates Airto Moreira for his Latin Grammy Nominations.

Best Instrumental Album: ALUE, Airto

Airto Moreira has had such a powerful impact on the music world that Downbeat Magazine created a Best Percussionist category which Airto won over twenty times.

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Congratulations to Peter Rowan

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Grammy winner and world class troubadour Peter Rowan has just been inducted into the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame. As a former member of Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Bays and a torch carrier for bluegrass music in all of its forms, this is a wonderful and well deserved accolade.

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A Train Congratulates Our Writers – Gerald Albright, Vince Ingala, Jessy J and Richard Elliot.

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DownBeat Announces Winners of the 2018 International Critics Poll

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Many congrats to the following A Train artists for their inclusion on the DownBeat 2018 International Critics Poll:

Alto Saxophone: Rudresh Mahanthappa- featured on the upcoming Mudang Rock release (Digital distribution)

Clarinet: Anat Cohen- (Digital distribution and publishing administration)

Guitar: Mary Halvorson (part of Cuneiform’s Thumbscrew; digital distribution)

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Congratulations to Roger Smith!

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A Train Congratulates Roger Smith for his four co-written songs on the best selling Tower of Power album Soul Side of Town.

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Congratulations to Kevin Wood, Vincent Ingala and Pete Escovedo!

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Kevin Wood’s Eternal (Real Music) hits the Billboard Charts at #4 its first week out! Billboard also acknowledges this terrific new release as this week’s “Hot Shot Debut” under “Chart Highlights.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vincent Ingala’s Personal Touch (Shanachie) is #1 in Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums charts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pete Escovedo’s Back to the Bay (Esco) went to #1 in its first day on Amazon’s Latin Music chart.

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Congratulations to Sheila Jordan!

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A Train wishes to congratulate Sheila Jordan on her 2018 Bistro Awards win! She won the award for Outstanding Contributions to the Art of Jazz.

 

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A Train wishes to congratulate our artists who made it to Smooth Jazz Network’s Best of 2017 list

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A Train artists on the year-end Billboard charts.

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