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Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2021 Jazz Awards Winners
Ron Carter and Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.by BWW News Desk
Master musician and educator Ron Carter, often credited as jazz s most recorded bassist, and author Kevin Whitehead, long-running jazz critic on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, announced today.
As trending in the greater jazz community, creative women earned significant recognition: Composer-orchestra leader Maria Schneider, whose album Data Lords (ArtistShare) is Record of the Year, and drummer-producer educator Terri Lyne Carrington, Jazz Musician of the Year, won multiple awards. Women prevailed in several other instrumentalists categories, too.
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Our guest is Vaclav Smil, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. Smil is the author of 40+ books on topics like energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk asssessment, and public policy. He joins us to discuss his accessible and compelling new book of short essays, Numbers Don t Lie. It s an eclectic, statistics-driven volume that effectively shows how numbers reveal the true state of our world today and how such numbers, much like unalterable facts, are what matter most. In the words of Bill Gates: There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
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