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Name: Stephanie Dalton on Apr 12, 2011Comments: Dear Grammy Executives, It is with great concern that I write you regarding your decision to remove the Latin Jazz category from Grammy consideration. I have worked with celebrated artists that include Oscar Hernandez, John Santos, Jesus Diaz, John Calloway, Wayne Wallace, Quique Cruz, Pete Escovedo, Ray Obiedo, Tito y su Son de Cuba, Michael Spiro, Wilson (Chembo) Corniel y Chaworo and the list goes on and on. As a booking manager, that has a well rounded genre of artists, I can definitely tell you it is challenging enough to book Jazz in venues and without the support of the Grammy's to Latin Jazz it is nearly impossible to book Latin Jazz artists in the established Jazz venues. A Grammy nomination translates directly to work for the artists. In a culture where transparent lyrics and copied beats are being celebrated, please keep the genres that give the Grammy's credibility and I ask you for the sake of music integrity around the world to keep the Latin Jazz component as part of the categories for consideration. Sincerely, Stephanie Dalton -- Urban Music Presents Jazz*Community*Accessibility 415-503-8207 - Mobile 415-796-2319 - Office www.UrbanMusicPresents.comFlag
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Name: Shannonwalker on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Nannette Vides on Apr 12, 2011Comments: Viva Latin Jazz a must at the Grammys and the world!Flag
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Name: Chili Bill on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Chip Boaz on Apr 12, 2011Comments: The Latin Jazz Grammy is an essential recognition of culture in our country - this MUST be reinstated!Flag
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Name: SYLVIA ENRIQUE on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Samuel Quinto on Apr 12, 2011Comments: "I was very instrumental in getting the Latin Jazz category into the awards, and its elimination is very upsetting to me," said Eddie Palmieri, a pianist and bandleader who has won nine Grammys and received 13 nominations. That elimination is an absurd!Flag
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Name: Annie Ostergard on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Mark Weinstein on Apr 12, 2011Comments: Latin Jazz is a unique music, it deserves its own category!Flag
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Name: Mari Koga on Apr 12, 2011Comments: No one can't ignore great musicians and great communities of Latin jazz music.Flag
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Name: Barbara Handler on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Bobby Matos on Apr 12, 2011Comments: The decision to drop the award for best latin Jazz recording marginalizes, denigrates, and denies our music.How do you think this decision will affect the shrinking radio play we are already seeing? Latin Jazz is a music born in the USA, a true American art form, with an almost 70 year history of valued contributions. Mario Bauza, Machito, Dizzy Gillespie, Chico O'Farrill, Paquito D'Rivera, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Cal Tjader, Charlie Parker, Billy Taylor, Mongo Santamaria ,Herbie Mann, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Dorham, Art Blakey, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, Chucho Valdes, Jerry Gonzalez, Gato Barbieri, and so many others have given us so much true art in the name of Latin jazzFlag
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Name: Larry Harlow on Apr 12, 2011Comments: PLEASE REINSTATE Latin jazz catagory..a tru American art form.. i am a lifetime achievement award Grammy winner form 2008 and former governer of NY chapter and the one who put the first Latin Grammy in in 1975.. look where it has gone.. please do not omit latinjazz for the grammys.. larry HarlowFlag
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Name: Deborah Farley on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Michael Eckroth on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Denise Santiago on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Lois Gilbert on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Hector Echevarria on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Angela Cordero on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Andrea Wolper on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Annette Lipson on Apr 12, 2011Comments: This is a nonsensical move on the part of the Academy.Flag
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Name: Rebecca on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Mario Marrero on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Renan Morales on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Edsel Gomez on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Juan on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Bobby Sanabria on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Aurora Flores on Apr 12, 2011Comments: Eliminating the Latin jazz category is akin to eliminating an entire group of people and their music. Please DO NOT DO THIS and then justify it by subsuming the genre into JAZZ. It will NOT be an even playing field.Flag
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Name: Carlos Velasquez on Apr 12, 2011Comments: 50 million Latinos in this country deserve to have categories that acknowledge their cultural influence in the music of this country .Flag
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Name: Joachim "Jochen" Becker, ZOHO Music LLC on Apr 12, 2011Comments: I fully support the petition to re-instate the LATIN JAZZ category at the GRAMMY's immediately, for several reasons : 1. We as NARAS members were never consulted about these category consolidation plans. They are quite unnecessary, and needlessly require that Latin Jazz, a distinct art form, gets lumped together in a generic jazz category with only remotely related genres such as smooth jazz. 2. Latin Jazz is one of the several now-eliminated categories which had "leveled the playing field" for musicians against the dominance of the major labels - which did not get much of a "hair cut" during the GRAMMY category consolidations. 3. Latin Jazz, plus the other Latin categories where there were consolidations, represent the pride and provide self esteem for the largest, fastest rising ethnic "minority " poplulation in the US. The uncalled-for GRAMMY cutbacks are viewed by many as an insult, and a slap in the face. 4. The entire NARAS effort of eliminating 30% of the present categories is misguided. A strong argument can be made to increase, not eliminate, the number of categories - for example in creating a wider range of "Best New Artist" categories within the fields of say, Jazz, Classical, Latin, etc.Flag
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Name: JuanMa Morales on Apr 12, 2011Comments: Keep the categories. Musicians rely om these.Flag
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Name: Arturo Martinez on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Luis Correa on Apr 12, 2011Comments: Latin Jazz is..................Flag
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Name: Alan Lockwood on Apr 12, 2011Comments: This category matters, perhaps most of all to musicians (not to mention their devotees). Reinstate it; do the right thingFlag
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Name: Angel Lebron on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Mike Freeman on Apr 12, 2011Comments: The elimination of the Grammy's Latin Jazz category makes no sense! Cultural bridges that are often reflected in Latinjazz should not be over looked or diluted by Americas biggest music awards celebration.Flag
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Name: Migdalia Soto on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Andrew Neesley on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Jesse Perez on Apr 12, 2011Comments: These award ceremonies are begining to be jokes,& some sort offensiveFlag
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Name: Scott Price on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: John Kwok on Apr 12, 2011Comments: It is a mistake to eliminate Latin Jazz as well as reduce the number of categories for Classical music, since both will probably be more enduring musically than hip hop, for example. Both categories have produced many superb recordings over the years and NARAS needs to continue recognizing this by restoring the cuts that have been proposed for the 54th annual Grammy Awards.Flag
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Name: Bob Crawford on Apr 12, 2011Comments: RMCO MUSIC, Inc. 229 West 26th St. Suite 6A, New York, NY 10001 -- 212-255-2161 rmco_music@hotmail.com JAZZ FIELD – 53rd Grammys Best Contemporary Jazz Album (keep) Best Jazz Vocal Album (keep) Best Improvised Jazz Solo xxx Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group xxx Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album(keep) Best Latin Jazz Album(keep) JAZZ FIELD – 54th Grammys Best Contemporary Jazz Album Best Traditional Jazz Album Best Large Jazz Ensemble Best Jazz Vocal Album Best Latin Jazz Album Best Improvised Jazz Solo –xxx Dear Mr. Portnow, My name is Bob Crawford, President of RMCO MUSIC in NYC. I am writing to you to offer some alternatives to the realignment of the Jazz Categories that NARAS has seemingly adopted. I will elucidate point by point. 1) I believe that there should be 3 main categories (see 54th Grammy list)—Traditional Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, and Latin Jazz. The first 2 are self-explanatory. The elimination of the Latin Jazz category discounts the fact that it is a very distinctive jazz form, different from the first two. It also dismisses the work of such giants as Mongo Santamaria, Ray Baretto, Astrud Giberto, Stan Getz, Paquito D’Rivera, Dizzy Gillespie & Machito, Horace Silver, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Donato, Bobby Sanabria, Tania Maria, Flora Purim, Chick Corea, Airto, all Brazilian Jazz, and all the young up and coming musicians, not all of Latino descent, who love to play this music. There are also so many Latin Jazz fans (including all the recent influx of Latinos in the US) who are consumers of this music that denying this entire category of music will greatly hurt music sales, which is contrary to the mission of NASAS as I understand it. 2) The inclusion of “Best Improvised Jazz Solo” is entirely too vague. Which instrument are you talking about…sax, trumpet, trombone, guitar (acoustic & electric), piano, drums, bass (electric & acoustic), etc.? If you want to narrow some categories, this one is the most expendable. 3) The “Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group” category is redundant and can be included in one of the 3 main Jazz categories posited in my first point. I hope that you take my suggestions in the spirit in which they were intended. That is, of inclusion and fairness, and the continued availability and quality of the only truly American musical idiom widely disseminated, that being Jazz itself. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best regards, Bob Crawford, President, RMCO MUSICFlag
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Name: Ricky Gonzalez on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Burt Boice on Apr 12, 2011Comments: American Music IS DERIVED from ALL of the cultures of the World. Each culture should be recognized as an integral part which makes up the whole of "Our Culture/Our Music."Flag
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Name: Nadine Torres on Apr 12, 2011Comments: This is an outrage should not have happenedFlag
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Name: Jane Holzka on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Johnny Rivero on Apr 12, 2011Comments: Latin Jazz has a chemistry with all men kind, which will take listeners on a musical journey! As a percussionist,producer and bandleader and Grammy awards winner with Eddie Palmieri,Brian Lynch and currently traveling internationally this is definitely upsetting. "LITTLE JOHNNY RIVERO"Flag
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Name: Maynor Vargas on Apr 12, 2011Comments: Latin Jazz should not be eliminatedFlag
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Name: Melissa Hubbell on Apr 12, 2011Comments:Flag