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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
The ninth annual Tulsa World Spot Music Awards (SPOTNIKS) was last night at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa.
P.D.A. came away the biggest winner of the night, grabbing both awards he was nominated for (Best Hip-Hop Group & Album of the Year).
Here is the full tally of winners:
Best Rock Group: The Red Alert
Best Pop Group: Admiral Twin
Best Hard Rock Group: Congress of a Crow
Best Hip-Hop Group: P.D.A.
Best R&B/Blues Group: Dustin Pittsley
Best Jazz Group: Harmonious Monk
Best Country Group: Travis Kidd
Best Christian Group: AfterEight
Best None of the Above: Citizen Mundi
Best Singer-Songwriter: Jesse Aycock
Rising Star: Callupsie
Artist of the Year: Crooked X
Album of the Year: P.D.A., Act II: A Different Victim
Inductees to the 2007 Spotnik Hall of Fame were Rewake & D.C. Minner. Admiral Twin’s win for Best Pop Group garnered their fifth Spotnik, which makes them eligible for the 2008 Spotnik Hall of Fame.
Read the full recap here.
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Nominees for the ninth annual Tulsa World Spot Music Awards (SPOTNIKS) have been announced.
Malan Darras leads all nominees with three nominations - Artist of the Year, Album of the Year (Who Is Malan D?) and Best Pop Act.
Citizen Mundi, Crooked X, Dangerous Rob, Kunek, P.D.A., Red Dirt Rangers, South 40 and Thomas Martinez all received two nominations apiece.
There are thirteen categories to vote for in this year’s edition. You can vote once a day online at tulsaworld.com/spotniks. Voting ends on Friday, October 5 at midnight.
The Spot Music Awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, October 20 at Cain’s Ballroom. Admission is $8. Performing will be Susan Herndon, South 40, P.D.A., Dustin Pittsley Band, 1 G.O.P., Down for Five, Callupsie, Thomas Martinez and Citizen Mundi. The after party will feature a live performance by Spot Music Awards Hall of Fame inductees Rewake.
Full nominee list after the jump.
DOWNLOADS:
Malan Darras - “Memory Magazine”
Little Joe McLerran - “First Shot Got Him”
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame’s 19th Annual Induction Banquet Gala will be held tonight in the International Ballroom of the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa. The black-tie scholarship fundraiser begins at 6 pm, dinner begins at 7 pm and the awards ceremony at 8pm.
Being honored with induction to the Hall of Fame are Dr. Billy Taylor, Frank Wess, Conrad Herwig, Leona Mitchell, the late James “Ace” Moreland and jazz ensemble Harmonious Monk.
View the inductees’ bios in this post from April 2007.
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Photo: Jason Sales
Greater Tulsa Reporter has a good read on Jazz Tulsa 107.9 FM. Kudos to the station for focusing on local jazz musicians.
KJZT Jazzin’ Up Tulsa
By MIRANDA ENZOR
Editorial Assistant
Turn on the radio and listeners are bound to hear lots of noise: the heavy bass beats of rap, the twang of country music’s guitars or the digestible but bland sounds of top-40. But if listeners turn the dial a little further in Tulsa, they’re bound to find something smooth, unobtrusive and relaxing: Jazz Tulsa 107.9 FM.
Jazz Tulsa is a low-power FM (LPFM) station sanctioned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Such stations began to be licensed in 1999 when the FCC created new rules regarding LPFM programming. These stations are required to have non-commercial, educational programming and a broadcasting strength that does not exceed 100 watts which reaches up to a 3.5-mile radius.
With national radio becoming more homogenized, LPFM stations allow listeners to rediscover a sense of localism on the airwaves, which is exactly what Jazz Tulsa does. Jason Bennett, general manager of Jazz Tulsa 107.9 FM, is excited to expand his audience with the establishment of a second station reaching north of downtown Tulsa on 94.9 FM.
“If you’re anywhere north of downtown, you can now hear us at 94.9 FM,” Bennett says. “The new signal hits Owasso, Claremore, Catoosa and almost all the way up to Bartlesville so it has really expanded our geographic footprint.”
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Yesterday, the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame announced the eight musicians/bands that will be inducted this year. Congratulations to all inductees.
Jazz Hall of Fame names next inductees: 8 high notes of music
By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer
4/26/2007
Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame organizers announced Wednesday that eight people will be inducted into the hall of fame at the organization’s annual gala in June.
Chief Executive Officer Chuck Cissel announced the inductees at a press conference outside the hall’s future home, downtown’s former Union Depot, an art deco-style train station constructed in 1931 and now being renovated.
The inductees are Frank Wess, a flutist and saxophonist; Billy Taylor, a veteran musician and composer; Conrad Herwig, a trombonist; Leona Mitchell, an opera singer; James “Ace” Moreland, a blues guitarist; the Tulsa jazz band Harmonious Monk; James Goodwin, the co-publisher of The Oklahoma Eagle; and Michael Johnson, the senior vice president of Williams Cos.
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Sunday, October 15th, 2006
The 2006 Tulsa World Spot Music Awards were held last night.
Here are the winners:
Best Rock Act: Congress of a Crow
Best Pop Act: The Hero Factor
Best Hard Rock Act: Rook
Best Hip-Hop Act: P.D.A.
Best R&B / Blues Act: Cindy Cain
Best Jazz Act: Harmonious Monk
Best Country / Americana Act: Travis Kidd
Best Christian Act: Aftereight
Best None of the Above: Rewake
Best Singer-Songwriter: Steve Liddell
Rising Star: Crooked X
Artist of the Year: The Red Alert
Album of the Year: The Red Alert, Put on Your Game Face
Hall of Fame: J.J. Cale & John Wooley
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
Tulsa World has announced the Spot Awards nominees for 2006:
Best Rock Act
Congress of a Crow, The Effects, Midwest Kings, The Red Alert & River City Ransom
Best Pop Act
The Hero Factor, redecco, Stevedore, Shannon Thomas & Traveler
Best Hard Rock Act
Bait, Down for Five, Failsafe, Fighting Tomorrow & Rook
Best Hip-Hop Act
Big Rec, aka REConcile, Dangerous Rob, Lega-C, P.D.A. & TripC
Best R&B / Blues Act
Big Ric, Cindy Cain, Rochelle Chambers, CoCo Jones & Dustin Pittsley Band
Best Jazz Act
Jon Glazer, Harmonious Monk, Eldredge Jackson, Grady Nichols & SCORE
Best Country / Americana Act
Jason Boland and the Stragglers, Travis Kidd, The Mudville Project, Brian Parton & The Round Up Boys
Best Christian Act
Aftereight, Anna Dilemma, Beforesunday, Edinbergh & Stephen Speaks
Best None of the Above
Citizen Mundi, Larkin, My-Tea Kind, Rewake & Sam and the Stylees
Best Singer-Songwriter
Wade Burrow, Susan Herndon, Steve Liddell, Jared Tyler & Phillip Zoellner
Rising Star
Callupsie, Crooked X, Elliott the Letter Ostrich, RadioRadio & Stoneface Norman
Artist of the Year
The Effects, The Hero Factor, Eldredge Jackson, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey & The Red Alert
Album of the Year
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Sameness of Difference
Steve Liddell, Good Love
RadioRadio, Watch ‘Em All Come Runnin’
The Red Alert, Put on Your Game Face
Redecco, Falling At Various Speeds
Hall of Fame
J.J. Cale
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