Iowa's own James Kennedy Lands Grammy Nomination
Acceptance 3rd Year in a Row!
For the 3rd year in a row, Iowa's James Kennedy has CD in Grammy process.
For interviews, presskits, photos or more information, please contact
Heart Consort Music, ph. 319-895-8557
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Iowa's own James Kennedy Lands Grammy Nomination
Acceptance 3rd Year in a Row!
Saturday, October 25, 2003
For Immediate Release
| | - Vernon, IA ? The most recent CD release by Iowa's
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jazz/fusion guitarist James Kennedy has been accepted by NARAS
for a Grammy nomination - "Vagabond" was accepted into the "Instrumental Pop Album" category. This music is available for your listening pleasure all around the internet at MP3.com, Cdbaby.com, Peaceworkmusic.net and others.
Other recent accomplishments by the versatile
guitarist include features in Downbeat magazine, JazzReview, a feature at O'Place Jazz, two months as featured artist at Great Music Sites.com and 7 straight weeks in the #1 spot on Sheheshe Music Services? Independent Radio Chart. Songs from both of Kennedy?s 2002 releases have also recently been nominated in the "Musician's Atlas" Indie Music Awards.
?Vagabond? combines favorite elements from James Kennedy?s past CDs with James on guitars, Catherine Lawson on electric violin, Matt Alles on bass, and Joe Patterson & Masahiro Iwasaki splitting the work on drums/percussion. Classic rock, jazzy swing, a bossa nova, and a few surprises! Take a trip with ?Vagabond??
James Kennedy's first solo release Just Bein? Natural
with Union Street Productions was a folk guitar/vocal album
late in the 1970's. He toured in support of this album until he went to college. During his undergraduate work in music composition with
internationally known composer Alf Houkum, he
also studied jazz, world music, arranging, and more.
Many of his big-band jazz compositions have been performed by several
world-class bands. After his undergraduate training, Jim did graduate work at the University of Iowa with Dr. Richard Hervig and Dr. Tom Davis, among others. Kennedy's jazz and blues training were clearly evident on a recording he did for Matthias Winckelmann of Enja Records which was a very popular release in Europe for many years.
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recording label Heart Consort Music. In the intervening years, James has
released 12 albums in a variety of styles, ranging from folk/acoustic to
rock/fusion, jazz and world music, and more. These twelve releases have
received international radio airplay, distribution and exposure. James has
written music for various independent film and video projects, and his music has been licensed by 3M, AEI, Bravo, Disney, The Discovery Channel, PBS, DMX, Muzak, Playnetwork, and many others. He has performed at festivals all over the world including
Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland; North Sea Jazz
Festival, The Hague in The Netherlands; and the Euro-Disney Jazzfest
in Paris, France. James Kennedy is an endorsed artist by the Guild Guitar
Company and the Lakewood Guitar company.
For more information about James Kennedy, please visit
his web site at http://www.heartconsortmusic.com. For more information
on the GRAMMY Awards, please visit the web site at http://www.naras.org. NARAS voting members are invited to vote for Kennedy's nomination. Ballots are to reach NARAS by November 12, 2003.
For interviews, presskits, photos or more information,
please contact Heart Consort Music/410 First Street West/Mt. Vernon,
IA 52314
www.heartconsortmusic.com
mail@heartconsortmusic.com or
HrtCnsrtMs@aol.com
319-895-8557
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