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PBS Member Station Georgia Public Broadcasting Announces the Broadcast of the Inaugural Jazz Music Awards on January 1, 2024

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PBS member station Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) today announces the inaugural Jazz Music Awards: Celebrating The Spirit of Jazz, which it will make available for streaming on demand on PBS Passport on Monday, January 1, 2024.

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  • Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PBS member station Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) today announces the inaugural Jazz Music Awards: Celebrating The Spirit of Jazz, which it will make available for streaming on demand on PBS Passport on Monday, January 1, 2024.
  • The Jazz Music Awards is a new two-hour award show celebrating the best in Jazz including traditional, contemporary, vocal, instrumental, and experimental.
  • It is the first global, full-scale, music award show dedicated to Jazz and the artists who create it.
  • “GPB is excited to partner with WCLK [an NPR member station] to broadcast and stream the Jazz Music Awards,” said GPB CEO Bert Wesley Huffman.

NEA Jazz Masters Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, and Terri Lyne and Others to Share Jazz Wisdom in FREE Educational Master Classes and Workshops at Clark Atlanta University

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Monday, October 10, 2022

ATLANTA, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The producers of the inaugural Jazz Music Awards and Jazz 91.9 WCLK will present three dynamic Jazz master classes and workshops on the campus of the historic Clark Atlanta University on Friday, October 21, 2022, beginning at 9:00 a.m.

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  • ATLANTA, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The producers of the inaugural Jazz Music Awards and Jazz 91.9 WCLK will present three dynamic Jazz master classes and workshops on the campus of the historic Clark Atlanta University on Friday, October 21, 2022, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
  • ET, at the Juanita Baranco Multi-Purpose Room in the Bishop Cornelius Henderson Student Center at 223 James P. Bawley Drive SW, in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Featuring some of the best-known names in the world of Jazz today including multiple Grammy Award winners and NEA Jazz Masters Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, and Terri Lyne Carrington these educational masterclasses and workshops are free and open to the public and take place the day before the inaugural Jazz Music Awards ceremony.
  • The panel will be moderated by Ms. Rivablue ofJazz 91.9 WCLK's "Midday Jazz."

EMMY® Winner Rushion McDonald Celebrates Five Years of Money Making Conversations Master Class, With Special Broadcast on September 27th

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Monday, September 26, 2022

ATLANTA, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Multiple EMMY and NAACP Image Award-winning TV/film/radio producer, founder of 3815 Media, Inc., celebrated baker, and host Rushion McDonald, will mark five years of his show Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald, with a 5-Year Anniversary Special broadcast on Tuesday, September 27th.

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  • ATLANTA, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Multiple EMMY and NAACP Image Award-winning TV/film/radio producer, founder of 3815 Media, Inc., celebrated baker, and host Rushion McDonald, will mark five years of his show Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald, with a 5-Year Anniversary Special broadcast on Tuesday, September 27th.
  • On the special Tuesday, September 27th 5-Year Anniversary broadcast of Money Making Conversations Master Class, Rushion McDonald's expected guests include: Award-winning actress Wendy Raquel Robinson, Award-winning actress/comedian Kym Whitley, EMMY-winning TV personality/producer Shaun Robinson, GRAMMY-nominated recording artists Marcus and Jean Baylor (The Baylor Project), and Award-winning recording artist Pastor Mike Jr., which will broadcast 6-7 pm EST on WCLK and can be heard online at: http://tunein.com/embed/player/s27908/?autoplay=true .
  • 3815 Media, Inc.is a branding, marketing and production company, founded and led by Rushion McDonald.
  • Connect with Rushion McDonald, and Money Making Conversations Master Class, at:

The Inaugural Jazz Music Awards Announces the 2022 Nominees and Honorees including Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Ambrose Akinmusire, Henry Threadgill, Dr. Lenora Helm Hammonds, James H. Patterson and More

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Monday, August 29, 2022

The Lifetime Achievement Award will go to saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter; the Jazz Legend Award will be presented to the family of the late pianist and composer McCoy Tyner.

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  • The Lifetime Achievement Award will go to saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter; the Jazz Legend Award will be presented to the family of the late pianist and composer McCoy Tyner.
  • The inaugural Jazz Music Awards will establish a new platform for recognizing the rich history, musical innovation, and vital artistry that continue to inform America's truly original art form Jazz Music.
  • The Jazz Music Awards and its creatorsrecognize and amplifyJazz as a vibrant cornerstone of allAmericanmusic that hasprofoundly influencedAmerican language, style, traditions, and sounds, producing heroes and cultural phenomena.
  • The Jazz Music Awards is a nonprofit division of Jazz 91.9 WCLK at Clark Atlanta University, the Historically Black College and University, owner and licensee of WCLK.