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GRAMMY Museum® Grant Program Awards $200,000 for Music Research and Sound Preservation

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"This year marks the 36th year that the GRAMMY Museum and Recording Academy® have partnered to provide much deserved funding for music research and preservation projects across the United States and Canada.

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  • "This year marks the 36th year that the GRAMMY Museum and Recording Academy® have partnered to provide much deserved funding for music research and preservation projects across the United States and Canada.
  • During that time, we have awarded more than $8.3 million to 479 grantees," said Michael Sticka, President/CEO of the GRAMMY Museum.
  • "It is our vision to lead in creating a world in which shared love of music sparks curiosity, creativity, and community.
  • Generously funded by the Recording Academy, the GRAMMY Museum Grant Program provides funding annually to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the recorded sound heritage of the Americas for future generations, in addition to research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition.

Saxophonist/Composer Alex Weiss Exhibits His Surrealist Jazz Conception on "Most Don't Have Enough," Due Feb. 24 from Ears&Eyes Records

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RICHMOND, Calif., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alex Weiss's idiosyncratic vision of postbop jazz finds a new apex with the tenor saxophonist-composer's February 24 release of "Most Don't Have Enough" (ears&eyes). Weiss's third album as a leader is also his first with Glad Irys, his working quintet since 2019 comprising soprano saxophonist Dan Blake, guitarist Yana Davydova, bassist Dmitry Ishenko, and drummer Ches Smith, with pianist Marta Sanchez adding her distinctive stamp to two of the album's nine moody, mysterious tracks.

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  • RICHMOND, Calif., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alex Weiss 's idiosyncratic vision of postbop jazz finds a new apex with the tenor saxophonist-composer's February 24 release of "Most Don't Have Enough" (ears&eyes).
  • Seven of "Most Don't Have Enough"'s tunes are Weiss originals, each bearing the composer's hallmarks of unusual form, meter, and texture.
  • His approach to music and art is deeply informed by the work of his grandfather, the great Spanish surrealist Eugenio Granell.
  • Alex Weiss will be performing a CD release show with the band heard on "Most Don't Have Enough" on Tuesday 3/14, 6pm, at P.S.