ARTSBEAT; Steve Jobs, Who Changed a Music Industry (Among Others), Is Awarded a Grammy

Steven P. Jobs was not a musician, and opinions are churned about either a invention of iTunes will be good for a recording attention in a prolonged run, though his symbol on how song is distributed appears indelible, and so a National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has motionless to give him a Grammy endowment in February.

Jobs, who died on Oct. 5, will be given a Trustees Award, that honors ”outstanding contributions to a attention in a nonperforming capacity.” The academy’s inhabitant house of curators motionless to respect Jobs since he ”helped emanate products and record that remade a approach we devour music, TV, movies, and books,” a proclamation said.

”A artistic visionary, Jobs’ innovations such as a iPod and a counterpart, a online iTunes store, revolutionized a attention and how song was distributed and purchased,” a proclamation said. (The academy already gave Apple Computer Inc. a Technical Grammy Award in 2002 for contributions of superb technical stress to a recording field.)

Jobs is a usually nobleman receiving an endowment this year. The other dual recipients of a Trustees Award are David Bartholomew, a bandleader, composer and arranger who wrote some-more than 40 hits with Fats Domino in a 1950s, including ”Ain’t That a Shame,” and Rudy Van Gelder, a recording operative for thousands of jazz sessions with artists like John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk.

The academy also announced a musicians who will accept a 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards during a rite in Los Angeles on Feb. 12: a Allman Brothers, Glen Campbell, George Jones, Diana Ross, Antonio Carlos Jobim, a Memphis Horns and Gil Scott-Heron, who died on May 27.

This is a some-more finish chronicle of a story than a one that seemed in print.

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