Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi Last year this award was not presented in 2012 due to a an overhaul of Grammy categories. Latin Jazz recordings were shifted to either the Best Jazz Instrumental Album or Best Jazz Vocal Album categories. Because of strong protests and a lawsuit made by Latin jazz musicians led by Bobby Sanabria the Recording Academy announced a […]
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi Here is an update to the Latin Grammy fight with NARAS from an email recently sent by GrammyWatch.info. DooBeeDooBeeDoo supports the complete reinstatement of all dropped catagories! Check out the GrammyWatch.info’s petition!
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi Last week the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)T, the organization that overlooks the GRAMMY Awards has announced a consolidation of categories resulting in deleting the Latin Jazz Category. NARAS decided to reduce the number of Grammy prizes from 109 to 78. Why? “…that the Grammy remains a rare and distinct honor, […]
By Dawoud Kringle One of the most iconic and prolific songwriters, guitarists, producers, and rock journeymen, Robbie Robertson, passed on August 9th 2023. He was 80 years old. Robertson was born on July 5th, 1943 and grew up on the Six Nations Reservation near Ontario Canada. He became interested in rock & roll music at […]
Ghouls – An Editorial by Dawoud Kringle “The howling of ghouls is a familiar howl drawing you to the abyss.” – Rumi For those of you who did not grow up on Vincent Price movies like I did, a ghoul is a malignant djinn from ancient Arabic folklore, and introduced into European folklore in the […]
